Armand de Bourbon, prince de Conti
Armand de Bourbon, prince de Conti (born October 11, 1629 in Paris , † February 21, 1666 at his country estate La Grange-des-Prés near Pézenas ) was a French nobleman, prince of the blood and founder of the younger line of the House of Bourbon. Conti .
Life
Armand, the youngest son of Henri II. De Bourbons , the Prince of Condé and his wife Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency , brother of the "Great Condé" , was originally destined for the clergy because of his weak, misshapen body and already held several benefices .
However, when his brother Louis II raised the flag of revolt against the court as part of the Fronde in 1650 , Conti made common cause with him. Conti was arrested in the same year with his brother and the Duke of Longueville and only released in 1651.
As Prince of the Blood, Conti was finally pardoned and returned to the royal court. In 1655 he even married the niece of the ruling minister Jules Mazarin , Anna Maria Martinozzi from the Mazarin-Mancini house . The marriage with Martinozzi earned Conti the Guyenne governorate as a trousseau .
Entrusted with a command in the war against Spain in 1654, he captured Villefranche and Puigcerdà . In the Italian campaign of 1657 he fought unhappily. In 1660 he was given the governorate of Languedoc .
Conti was part of the court of his third cousin, Louis XIV, as well as confidante of his mother, Queen Anne , and, due to his noble descent, also took part in meetings of the Council of State until the young king took the official business into his own hands from 1661 and sacked almost all members of the council, including his mother.
Conti placed Molière under his protection during his stay in Languedoc. A legend is probably the claim made by La Grange that Conti and Molière attended the Collège de Clermont. After Conti had joined the strictly Catholic Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement in the mid-1650s , however, he turned against Molière, whose works he described as not godly, and wrote, among other things, a Traité de la comédie et des spectacles directed against the theater (Paris 1666).
He died in 1666 at La Grange-des-Prés Castle in Pézenas .
Descendants
Children from the marriage with Anna Maria Martinozzi were:
- Louis (* / † 1658)
- Louis Armand I (1661–1685), Prince of Conti
- François Louis (1664–1709), the "Great Conti", Prince de La-Roche-sur-Yon, from 1685 Prince of Conti
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Hösle: Molière. His life, his work, his time , Piper Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-492-02781-4 , p. 12.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bourbon, Armand de, prince de Conti |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1629 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1666 |
| Place of death | at Pézenas |