Henri de La Trémoille, duc de Thouars

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Henri de La Trémoille , (* December 22, 1598 in Thouars ; † January 21, 1674 ibid) was a member of the house of La Trémoille , Duke of Thouars and La Trémouille, Prince of Talmont and Tarento , Count of Laval , Guînes , Jonvelles, Taillebourg and Benon .

Life

Henri was a son of the Duke of Thouars, Claude de La Trémoille . He followed this as the third Duke of Thouars in 1604 under the tutelage of his mother Charlotte Brabantina of Orange-Nassau . A year later, the extensive estates from the inheritance of the Counts of Laval in Brittany and Mayenne fell to him, which his mother was able to secure for the house in a long inheritance dispute.

Henri's father converted to Protestantism , but Henri converted back to Catholicism in 1628 , which led to a break with his mother. He founded an Ursuline monastery in Thouars in 1632 and a Poor Clare monastery in 1652 , but tried neither to convince his wife to convert, who also remained a Huguenot, nor to forbid Protestantism in the duchy.

Henri served in the French army as maître-de-camp-général of the light cavalry , was wounded in the knee in Italy and then turned to politics. In the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, as heir to King Frederick of Naples , he was granted the nominal title of King of Naples .

As a result of a serious gout disease , Henri left the duchy to his eldest son in 1668.

progeny

The Duke married his cousin Marie de la Tour d'Auvergne (1600-1665), daughter of Duke Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon and Elizabeth of Orange-Nassau , with whom he married on March 19, 1619 in Sedan had the following children:

literature

  • 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, Volume 49, No. 1, The University of Chicago Press 1977.
personal data
SURNAME La Trémoille, Henri de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Trémouille, Henri de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Thouars and La Trémouille
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1598
PLACE OF BIRTH Thouars
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1674
Place of death Thouars