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Charles
Duke of Vendôme
18th-century portrait of the Duke of Vendôme
Born2 June 1489
Château de Vendôme, France
Died25 March 1537(1537-03-25) (aged 47)
Amiens, France
SpouseFrançoise d'Alençon
IssueAntoine, King of Navarre
Francis, Count of Enghien
Charles, Archbishop of Rouen
John, Count of Soissons
Louis, Prince of Condé
Names
Charles de Bourbon
HouseHouse of Bourbon
FatherFrancis, Count of Vendôme
MotherMarie de Luxembourg

Charles de Bourbon (2 June 1489 – 25 March 1537) was a French prince du sang and military commander at the court of Francis I of France. He is notable as the paternal grandfather of King Henry IV of France.

Biography

Charles was born at the Château de Vendôme, the son of François, Count of Vendôme and Marie de Luxembourg.[1]

Charles succeeded his father as Count of Vendôme in 1495. Charles's first military service was in Italy, under Louis XII. His county was elevated into a duchy in 1514.[2] He fought at the battle of Marignan and participated in the Flemish campaign. Because of his loyalty to the king, he was appointed head of the council when Francis I was captured at Pavia.

On 18 May 1513, he married Françoise d'Alençon, daughter of René, Duke of Alençon.[3] They had thirteen children:

  1. Louis de Bourbon (1514–1516), died in infancy.
  2. Marie de Bourbon (1515–1538), unmarried, prospective bride of James V of Scotland in 1536.
  3. Marguerite de Bourbon (1516–1589), married 1538 Francis I of Cleves, Duke of Nevers (1516–1561).
  4. Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme (1518–1562).
  5. François de Bourbon, Count of Enghien (1519–1546), unmarried.
  6. Madeleine de Bourbon (1521–1561), Abbess of Sainte-Croix de Poitiers.
  7. Louis de Bourbon (1522–1525), died in infancy.
  8. Charles de Bourbon (1523–1590), Archbishop of Rouen.
  9. Catherine de Bourbon (1525–1594), Abbess of Soissons.
  10. Renée de Bourbon (1527–1583), Abbess of Chelles.
  11. Jean de Bourbon, Count of Soissons and Enghien (1528–1557), married 1557 his first cousin Marie, Duchess of Estouteville (1539–1601).
  12. Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (1530–1569), married Eléonore de Roye.
  13. Léonore de Bourbon (1532–1611), Abbess of Fontevraud (1532–1611).

The successive deaths of his cousins Charles IV, Duke of Alençon (1525) and Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (1527) made him the fourth in the order of succession to the throne, just behind the king's sons. At the natural course of affairs his wife, a sister of the last duke of Alençon, would have been the heiress of her brother; but Francis I allowed his sister, Marguerite of Angoulême, the late duke's wife, to keep them, even though they did not have children. Charles would also have been heir to the duchy of Bourbon, but it was forfeited to the crown by the treason of the last holder. At the death of Constable de Bourbon in 1527, he became the Head of the House of Bourbon.

His son Antoine married Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, daughter of Marguerite of Angoulême, settling the Alençon inheritance. Their son would succeed to the French throne as Henry IV. Antoine and Louis, Prince of Condé, became powerful military leaders on opposite sides in the French Wars of Religion. Charles died at Amiens in 1537 at the age of 47.

Notes

  1. ^ Achaintre, Nicolas Louis, Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de Bourbon,Vol.1, (Rue de L'École de Médecine, 1825), 366.
  2. ^ The Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol.27, Ed. Hugh Chisholm, (1911), 982.
  3. ^ Bulletin de la commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne, Jan. 1878, (Imprimerie De Leon Moreau, 1885), 300.

References

  • Bulletin de la commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne, Jan. 1878, Imprimerie De Leon Moreau, 1885.
  • The Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol.27, Ed. Hugh Chisholm, 1911.
  • Achaintre, Nicolas Louis, Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de Bourbon,Vol.1, Rue de L'École de Médecine, 1825.

Ancestors

Family of Charles, Duke of Vendôme
16. John I, Count of La Marche
8. Louis, Count of Vendôme
17. Catherine of Vendôme
4. Jean VIII, Count of Vendôme
18. Guy XIII de Laval
9. Jeanne de Laval
19. Anne de Laval
2. François, Count of Vendôme
20. Pierre de Beauveau
10. Louis de Beauvau, Seneschal of Anjou
21. Jeanne de Craon
5. Isabelle de Beauvau
22. Ferri V de Chambley
11. Marguerite de Chambley
23. Jeanne de Launoy
1. Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme
24. Pierre I of Luxembourg
12. Louis de Luxembourg
25. Margaret de Baux
6. Pierre II of Luxembourg
26. Robert de Bar
13. Jeanne de Bar
27. Jeanne de Béthune
3. Marie de Luxembourg
28. Amadeus VIII of Savoy
14. Louis, Duke of Savoy
29. Mary of Burgundy, Countess of Savoy
7. Margaret of Savoy
30. Janus of Cyprus
15. Anne of Cyprus
31. Charlotte de Bourbon (daughter of #16/#17)

Patrilineal descent

Succession

Preceded by Count of Vendôme
1495–1514
Succeeded by
title was elevated to peerage-duchy
Preceded by
title was elevated from countship
Duke of Vendôme
1514–1537
Succeeded by