François de Bourbon, comte d'Enghien

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François de Bourbon, comte d'Enghien (born September 23, 1519 , † February 23, 1546 in La Roche-Guyon ) was a French prince of the blood from the House of Bourbon and general.

He was a younger son of Charles de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme , and Françoise d'Alençon. From his father's inheritance he received the county of Enghien .

In 1542, King Francis I appointed him commander of an army in the Italian wars against Habsburg . He led his troops to the siege of Nice in 1543 and won the following year against an imperial Spanish army in the battle of Ceresole . He died at the La Roche-Guyon castle at the age of 26 after a heavy chest fell on him.

literature

  • Robert Jean Knecht: The rise and fall of Renaissance France, 1483-1610 . 2nd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2001, ISBN 0-631-22729-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cf. Brantôme: Œuvres complètes de Pierre de Bourdeille (=  Société de l'histoire de France . III: Vie des hommes illustres et grands capitaines français). Jules Renouard (Ch. Lahure printing shop), Paris 1867, p. 220 (French).
  2. ↑ See Jules Michelet: Histoire de France . tape VIII . Paris, S. 335 (French). who, out of jealousy, blames the young Duke of Guise for this death.
personal data
SURNAME François de Bourbon, comte d'Enghien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Enghien
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1519
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1546
Place of death La Roche-Guyon