Françoise (Orléans) de Bourbon-Condé (1549 - 1601)

Born 5 Apr 1549 in Châteaudun, Orléanais, France

Ancestors

Wife of Louis (Bourbon) de Bourbon-Condé — married 8 Nov 1565 (to 13 Mar 1569) in Château de Vendôme, Vendôme, Orléanais, France

Descendants

Died 11 Jun 1601 at age 52 in Paris, Île-de-France, France

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Françoise Orléans was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

Biography

Françoise (Orléans) de Bourbon-Condé is Notable.

Françoise d'Orléans-Longueville was born on 5 April 1549, the posthumous daughter of François d'Orléans-Longueville and his wife Jacqueline de Rohan.

She married on 8 November 1565 at the Château de Vendôme the Huguenot Prince of Condé, Louis de Bourbon, younger brother of Antoine King of Navarre in right of his wife, Jeanne d'Albret. Together they had three sons but only the eldest, Charles, outlived infancy.

Her husband was killed at the Battle of Jarnac in 1569 when the Huguenots were defeated. After the St Bartholemew's Day Massacre in 1572 Françoise found it politic to convert to Catholicism. On 9 June 1572 her nephew, Henri of Navarre, became Henry IV, King of France. Twenty years later he too was to find it useful to convert to Protestantism.

Françoise died in Paris on 11 June 1601 aged 52, and was buried at the Soissons family tomb in Gaillon, Normandy (now Eure, Normandie, France).

Research Notes

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=RSXlOf4Kcd8C&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA89 Histoire de la maison de Bourbon – Joseph-Louis Ripault Desormeaux

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