Bourbon Conti

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The coat of arms of the Conti.

Bourbon-Conti has been the name of younger branches of the House of Bourbon-Condé since the 16th century , named after the small town of Conti-sur-Selles (now Conty ) near Amiens .

history

Isabelle de Conti († before 1438), the heir to the original House of Conti, bequeathed the Conti rule to her husband, Colart de Mailly, in her will. She stayed in this family until Madeleine de Mailly († 1567), the daughter of Ferry II. De Mailly († around 1513) and Louise de Montmorency (* 1490; † June 12, 1547), she and the estates Sailly, Talmas, Florence and Tontignies brought into marriage with Charles de Roye, comte de Roucy, (born January 14, 1510, † January 19, 1551). Their daughter Éléonore married Louis I de Bourbon, Prince of Condé , and the rule came as an apanage to their second son François . Since he died without a legitimate heir, Conti reverted to the Condé family. Second Prince of Conti was François' nephew Henri II , who was also the third Prince of Condé .

In Robert Merle's book series "Fortune de France" a princess de Conti occurs, the daughter of Henri I de Lorraine , the Duke of Guise , was. She was still alive in 1614 and must have been around 30 years old (and, according to Merle, very beautiful) at that time.

The younger line from Conti

The youngest line of the House of Conti was founded by a younger brother of the great Condé , Armand de Bourbon, prince de Conti . He was an opponent of the court party in the Fronde , but later reconciled with the king and died as governor of Languedoc .

His son François Louis , Prince of La-Roche-sur-Yon and Conti, was elected King of Poland in 1697, but could not hold out against August the Strong of Saxony .

His grandson Louis François I de Bourbon, prince de Conti took part in the War of the Austrian Succession , commanded Piedmont in 1744, Germany in 1745 and Flanders in 1746. He built up one of the most extensive art and curiosity collections of his time and, like his grandfather, was a candidate for the Polish royal throne.

A natural daughter of the latter, Amélie Gabrielle Stephanie Louise de Bourbon-Conti (born June 30, 1756; † 1825) wrote the Mémoires historiques (1797; German 1809). Goethe took these as material for the natural daughter . The house went out with her brother, Louis François Joseph .

Prince of Conti

  • François (* 1558; † 1614), probably 1st prince de Conti in 1588
  • Armand (* 1629; † 1666), probably 3rd prince de Conti in 1629, son of Henri II.
  • Louis Armand I (* 1661; † 1685), 1666 4th prince de Conti, son of Armand
  • François Louis (* 1664; † 1709), called le Grand Conti , 1685 5th prince de Conti, elected King of Poland in 1697, brother of Louis Armand I.
  • Louis Armand II (* 1695 - † 1727), 1709 6th prince de Conti, 1st Duke of Mercœur , son of François Louis'
  • Louis François (* 1717; † 1776), 1727 7th prince de Conti, 3rd Duke of Mercœur, son of Louis Armand II.
  • Louis François Joseph (* 1734; † 1814), 1776 8th prince de Conti, 4th Duke of Mercœur, son of Louis François'

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