Antoine de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme

Anton of Bourbon

Antoine de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (German: Anton von Bourbon , Duke of Vendôme ) (born April 22, 1518 - November 17, 1562 in Les Andelys , Duchy of Normandy ) was the first Prince of the Blood to be one of the highest-ranking members of the French royal family and as husband of the Queen of Navarre ( Lower Navarre ) since 1555 Titular King of Navarre.

Life

He was the eldest son of Duke Charles de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme, and in 1548 married Jeanne d'Albret , the daughter and heiress of Henry II of Navarre.

Henry IV of France was his second son. With his brother Louis I de Bourbon , he was the leader of the Huguenot -bourbonischen compound against the Guises , but was arrested and only after the death of Francis II. Freed (on 5 December 1560) and by the heads of Catholicism to fall away from moved his co-religionist. Anton then became governor-general of the empire, joined the Catholic triumvirate of Duke François de Lorraine, duc de Guise , the Connétable of Montmorency and the Marshal of Saint-André, fought against the Huguenots, captured Bourges and besieged Rouen in 1562 . As a result of a wound he received here, he died on November 17, 1562 in Les Andelys.

The following children are from his marriage to Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre:

1. Heinrich (1551–1553), Duke of Beaumont
2. Henry IV (1553–1610)
3. Ludwig Karl (1555–1557), Count of Marle
4. Madeleine (* and † 1556)
5. Catherine (1559–1604), Duchess of Albret, Countess of Armagnac and Rodez, married to Duke Henry II of Lorraine (1563–1624)

He also had an illegitimate son with Louise de La Béraudière du Rouhet:

1. Karl (1554–1610), including Archbishop Karl III. of Rouen 1597-1604

literature

• Bourbon . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 3 . Altenburg 1857, p. 144-145 ( zeno.org ). (B) a))
• Anton . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 1 . Altenburg 1857, p. 575-577 ( zeno.org ). (A) a) 1)
• Alphonse de Ruble: Le Mariage de Jeanne d'Albret , Paris, Adolphe Labitte, 1877. 321 p. (French)
• Alphonse de Ruble: Antoine de Bourbon et Jeanne d'Albret, suite de Le mariage de Jeanne d'Albret , Tome premier , Tome second , Tome troisième , Tome quatrième , Paris, Adolphe Labitte, 1881-1886. (French)
• Alphonse de Ruble: Jeanne d'Albret et la guerre civile, Suite de Antoine de Bourbon et Jeanne d'Albret , Paris, Émile Paul et Guillemin, 1897. (French)
• Henri Hauser: "Antoine de Bourbon et l'Allemagne, 1560–1561" , In Revue historique , 16e année, tome 45, Paris, Félix Alcan Éditeur, January – April 1891, pp. 54–61. (French)
• Nicola Mary Sutherland: "Antoine de Bourbon, King of Navarre and the French Crisis of Authority, 1559–1562" In: Princes, Politics and Religion, 1547–1589 , London, The Hambledon Press, 1984 (pp. 55-72). (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Charles	Duke of Vendôme 1537–1562	Henry (later as Henry IV, King of France)
Françoise d'Alençon	Duke of Beaumont 1550–1562	Henry (later as Henry IV, King of France)