Charles de La Roche-sur-Yon

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Charles de Bourbon-Montpensier, Prince de La Roche-sur-Yon (* 1515 or around 1515; † October 10, 1565 Beaupréau , 50 years old) was a prince of the blood from the line of the Dukes of Montpensier. He was the 3rd Prince de La Roche-sur-Yon and became Duke of Beaupréau towards the end of his life.

As military commander he took part in the Italian Wars and the Huguenot Wars ; as a member of the royal court, he was governor of the young King Charles IX.

biography

Charles de Bourbon-Montpensier is the youngest son of Louis de Bourbon, 1st Prince de La Roche-sur-Yon, and Louise de Bourbon, 5th Comtesse de Montpensier . Louis III de Bourbon, duc de Montpensier is his brother. With him he fought in the wars against Emperor Charles V , in Provence (1536), in Artois (1537), in Roussillon (1542) and in Champagne . In 1552 he took part in the defense of Metz , which was besieged by Charles V, and in 1554 with Henry II in the siege of Renty in Artois.

During the reign of Francis II , he was present at the "Vendôme Meeting" (1559), where supporters of his cousin Antoine de Bourbon met to counter the assumption of power by the House of Guise . The latter tried to keep the Bourbons out of the way by asking them to accompany Elizabeth of Valois , the king's sister, on her trip to Spain, where she was to meet her husband, King Philip II . The Prince de La Roche took part in the trip and on this occasion presented the King of Spain with the necklace of the Ordre de Saint-Michel .

At the time when the Wars of Religion began, he was, unlike his brother, a moderate Catholic and part of the group of relatives around Queen Caterina de 'Medici who supported the policy of mediation with the Protestants. In 1561 the Queen made Charles de Bourbon-Montpensier the governor of the young King Charles IX.

Henry II made him lieutenant-général (deputy) for François de Montmorency as governor of Paris and Île-de-France on October 14, 1561 . On January 16, 1562 he was appointed governor of the Dauphiné .

During the First Huguenot War, he served in the royal army and took part in the Siege of Bourges and the Siege of Rouen (1562). In gratitude for his services, the king made the barony of Beaupréau a marquisate in 1557 and a duchy in June 1562.

In October 1565, Charles de Bourbon-Montpensier received Caterina de 'Medici seriously ill at his home in Beaupréau. He died the next day, October 10, 1565, at the age of 50 with no surviving descendants. He was buried in Beaupréau.

marriage and family

Charles de Bourbon-Montpensier married Philippe de Montespedon, Dame de Beaupréau, heir to Joachim de Montespedon and Jeanne de La Haye, widow of René de Montejean , Marshal of France († 1539), and from 1561 Première dame d'honneur Caterina around 1544 de 'Medicis. Your children are:

  • Henri, Marquis de Beaupréau (* 1545 † 1560 after December 15 at a turnir in Orléans )
  • Jeanne (* probably 1547; † probably 1548, 9 months old)

Philippe de Montespedon died in Paris on April 12, 1578.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Éric Durot, François de Lorraine, duc de Guise, entre Dieu et le roi , Paris, Classiques Garnier, coll. Bibliothèque d'histoire de la Renaissance (No. 1), 2012, ISBN 978-2-8124-0610-2 , P. 499
  2. ↑ Denis Crouzet, Le Haut Cœur de Catherine de Médicis. Une raison politique aux temps de la Saint-Barthélemy , Paris, Albin Michel, 2005, p. 533
personal data
SURNAME La Roche-sur-Yon, Charles de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bourbon-Montpensier, Charles de; Prince de La Roche-sur-Yon, Duc de Beaupréau
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman and military man, governor of Paris and Dauphiné
DATE OF BIRTH 1515 or around 1515
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1565
Place of death Beaupréau