Bourbon Condé
The House of Bourbon-Condé was a side branch of the French royal house of Bourbon and thus belonged to the Capetian ruling family. It existed from the 16th to the 19th century. Its chief temporarily took the position of the first prince of the blood . A branch line of the House of Bourbon-Condé was the younger line of the House of Bourbon-Conti , which went out in 1814.
The family was named after the small estate Condé-en-Brie with the Condé Castle in Champagne , which changed hands several times throughout the Middle Ages. Through the marriage of Marie de Luxembourg († 1547), heir to Pierre II. De Luxembourg, comte de Saint-Pol et Brienne , with François de Bourbon, comte de Vendôme , († 1495), Condé finally got into the 1487 Owned by the House of Bourbon. Both grandsons included Louis de Bourbon (* 1530; † 1569), who was one of the most important political and military leaders of the Protestant Huguenots in the wars of religion in the 16th century. He was also a mentor of his nephew Henri de Bourbon , who in 1589 was the first Bourbon to ascend the French throne under the name "Henry IV."
Louis de Bourbon had received Condé-en-Brie from the extensive family estate, for which he was the first to use the French title “prince” (German: prince ). His descendants were later honored with other titles, such as those of Duke of Bourbon and Enghien . A well-known representative of the family was Louis II. De Bourbon, prince de Condé , († 1686) who was best known as "le grand Condé" and was the leader of the Fronde against the reign of Cardinal Mazarin . After Henry IV's accession to the throne in 1589, the Bourbon-Condé assumed the position of first prince of the blood, giving them the right to succeed to the throne in the event that the royal family died out. However, they had to cede this position to the House of Bourbon-Orléans in 1709 . The last Condé, Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien , was executed in 1804 after a show trial at the instigation of the consul Napoleon Bonaparte . The victim's father died in 1830 without leaving another heir, so that the Bourbon-Condé family became extinct in the male line.
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The Princes of Condé (Princes de Condé)
- Louis I de Bourbon (1530–1569), 1537 1st prince de Condé, 1554 duc d'Enghien , youngest son of Charles de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme
- Henri I. de Bourbon (1552–1588), duc d'Enghien, 1569 2nd prince de Condé, son of Louis I.
- Henri II. De Bourbon (1588–1646), duc d'Enghien until 1606, 1588 3rd prince de Condé, 1632 duc de Châteauroux, de Montmorency , d ' Albret et de Bellegarde , son of Henri I.
- Louis II. De Bourbon (1621–1686), “le grand Condé”, (titular) duc d'Enghien, 1646 4th prince de Condé, 2nd duc de Châteauroux, de Montmorency, d'Albret (until 1661) et de Bellegarde, duc de Fronsac, son of Henri II.
- Henri III Jules de Bourbon (1643–1709), 1643–1646 duc d'Albret, 1646–1686 (titular) duc d'Enghien, 1686 5th prince de Condé, 2nd duc de Bourbon, de Châteauroux, de Montmorency et de Bellegarde , Son of Louis II.
- Louis III de Bourbon (1668–1710), 1709 6th prince de Condé, 3rd duc de Bourbon, (titular) duc d'Enghien, de Châteauroux, de Montmorency et de Bellegarde, son of Henri III.
- Louis IV. Henri de Bourbon (1692–1740), 1710 4th duc de Bourbon, d'Enghien, de Guise, de Châteauroux, de Montmorency et de Bellegarde, 7th prince de Condé, son of Louis III.
- Louis de Bourbon-Condé, comte de Clermont (1709–1771), French cleric, youngest son of Louis III.
- Louis V. Joseph de Bourbon (1736–1818), 1740 8th prince de Condé, 5th duc de Bourbon, d'Enghien, de Guise, de Châteauroux, de Montmorency et de Bellegarde, son of Louis IV.
- Louis VI. Henri Joseph de Bourbon (1756–1830), 1818 9th prince de Condé, 6th duc de Bourbon, d'Enghien, de Guise, de Châteauroux, de Montmorency et de Bellegarde, son of Louis V.
- Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon-Condé (1772–1804), duc d'Enghien, son of Louis VI.
More family members
- Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé (1619–1679), Duchess of Longueville, Princess of Neufchatel
- Éléonore de Bourbon-Condé (1587–1619), daughter of Henri I de Bourbon and his second wife Charlotte de la Trémoille
- Louise-Adélaïde de Bourbon-Condé (1757–1824), French princess and Benedictine monastery founder
- Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon-Condé (1676–1753), French nobleman and writer
- Marie Gabrielle Éléonore de Bourbon-Condé (1690–1760), French abbess
- Marie Thérèse de Bourbon-Condé (1666–1732), French nobleman, Princess of Conti by marriage
literature
- Nicolas-Louis Achaintre: Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison royale de Bourbon, chap. 2, pp. 379–441, Chez Mansut fils éditeur, Paris, 1825 [1]
- Anselme de Sainte-Marie: Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, des pairs, grands officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des anciens barons du royaume , chap. 1, pp. 332–344, La compagnie des libraires, Paris, 1726 [2]