Henri Charles de La Trémoille

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Henri Charles de La Trémoille

Henri Charles de La Trémoille (* December 17, 1620 in the Château de Thouars ; † September 14, 1672 ibid) was a member of the House of La Trémoille , Duke of La Trémouille, prince de Talmont and de Tarente, comte de Laval, de Montfort, de Taillebourg and de Benon . Henri Charles was a leader of the Fronde .

Life

Henri Charles was a son of Henri de La Trémoille, duc de Thouars and his wife Marie de la Tour d'Auvergne (1600–1665). In 1628 his father had become Catholic with his children, while the mother remained a Huguenot.

When Henri Charles came of age, his mother convinced him to return to Protestantism. In 1638 Henri Charles joined the military undertakings of his great-uncle Friedrich Heinrich von Orange, the youngest son of Wilhelm I of Orange . He had a love affair with his daughter Luise Henriette , later Electress of Brandenburg.

During the Fronde in October 1651, La Tremoille opposed Cardinal Mazarin and openly confessed to being the Prince de Condé . Five years later he was arrested for this and held in Amiens. His mother was able to obtain his release after a few months. He then served again in Holland but returned to Thouars in 1668 because his seriously ill father had to leave the affairs of the duchy to him. He died two years before his father and was the 3rd Duke of Thouars to succeed Henri Charles' eldest son.

progeny

Henri Charles married Emilie (1626–1693) in Kassel on May 15, 1648 , daughter of Landgrave Wilhelm V of Hessen-Kassel and his wife Amalie Elisabeth von Hanau-Münzenberg , with whom he had the following children:

  • Charlotte Amélie (1652–1732)
    ⚭ 1680 Count Anton I of Aldenburg (1633–1680)
  • Charles Belgique (1655–1709), Duke of Thouars
    ⚭ 1675 Madeleine de Crequy († 1707)
  • Frédéric-Guillaume (1658–1738), prince de Talmont
    ⚭ 1707 Elisabeth Anne de Bouillon
  • Henriette-Célèste (* 1662; † young)
  • Marie-Sylvie (1662-1692)

literature

  • La Trémoille, Henri-Charles de, Griffet, Henri (Ed.): Mémoires de Henri-Charles de la Tremoille, prince de Tarente. , Liége, JF Bassompierre, 1767.
  • William A. Weary: The House of La Tremoille, Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries: Change and Adaptation in a French Noble Family , The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 49, No. 1, The University of Chicago Press 1977
  • Peter van de Veer: Conversion to Modernities (online)
  • Silke Köhn: The magic of a legend. The bride of Fikensolt. The portrait of Charlotte Amélie de la Trémoille, Countess von Aldenburg (1652–1732). Oldenburg 2005
  • Leonhard Horowski: The Europe of Kings. Power and play in the courts of the 17th and 18th centuries. 1st edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-498-02835-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Hammer: Electress Luise Henriette. An Orange woman as a mediator between the Netherlands and Brandenburg-Prussia. Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Henri Charles de La Trémoille
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henri Charles de La Trémouille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke de La Trémouille, leader of the Fronde
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1620
PLACE OF BIRTH Thouars
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1672
Place of death Thouars