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Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency
Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency (May 11, 1594 – December 2, 1650) was an heiress of one of France's leading ducal families, and Princess of Condé by her marriage to Henry de Bourbon. She almost became a mistress of Henry IV of France, but her husband escaped with her after the wedding.
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Life
She was the daughter of Henry de Montmorency and his second wife, Louise de Budos.[1] In 1609, fifteen-year-old Charlotte-Marguerite wed the Prince of Condé.
Along with many other French nobles, her husband bitterly opposed the rule of Marshal d'Ancre, who abandoned the policy of the late King Henry IV. In September 1616, Henry II, Prince of Condé and Charlotte Marguerite were arrested and imprisoned at Vincennes, where their daughter Anne Genevieve was conceived and born three years later, in 1619.
In 1632, Charlotte-Marguerite's only brother, Henri, Duke of Montmorency was executed for intriguing against Cardinal Richelieu. The title passed to her. She was buried at the Carmel du faubourg Saint-Jacques, a Carmelite convent in Paris.
Children
Her children with Prince Henry II were:
- Anne Genevieve, Duchess of Longueville[2]
- Louis, Prince of Condé
- Armand, Prince of Conti
Notes
References
- Pardoe, Julia, The life of Marie de Medicis, queen of France, James Pott and Company, 1902.
- The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol.14, Ed. Thomas Spencer Baynes, Henry G. Allen and Company, 1888.
See also
- List of Princesses of Condé
Media related to Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency at Wikimedia Commons
Preceded by
Henry IIDuchess of Montmorency Succeeded by
LouisThe generations start from the children of Charles de Bourbon Duke of Vendôme, from whom are descended all Bourbons after ca 1513 1st Generation 
2nd Generation Marie de Clèves^ · Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille^ · Jeanne de Coeme · Louise Marguerite de Lorraine3rd Generation Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency^4th Generation 5th Generation Countess Palatine Anne Henriette Julie of Simmern^ · Anna Maria Martinozzi · Marie Thérèse de Bourbon*6th Generation 7th Generation Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden^ · Marie Anne de Bourbon* · Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg · Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon* · Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este8th Generation Louise Henriette de Bourbon^* · Charlotte de Rohan · Maria Caterina Brignole · Princess Maria Luisa of Savoy · Louise Diane d'Orléans*9th Generation 10th Generation ^wife of the First Prince of the Blood
*Already Princess of the blood in her own rightEléanor de Roucy de Roye (1551-1564) · Françoise d'Orléans (1565-1569) · Marie of Cleves (1572-1574) · Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille (1586-1588) · Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency (1609-1646) · Claire Clémence de Maillé (1646-1686) · Anne Henriette of Bavaria (1686-1709) · Louise Françoise de Bourbon (1709-1710) · Marie Anne de Bourbon (1713-1720) · Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg (1728-1740) · Charlotte de Rohan (1753-1760) · Maria Caterina Brignole (1798-1813) · Bathilde d'Orléans (1818-1822)Categories:- 1594 births
- Princesses of the Blood
- 1650 deaths
- Mistresses of Henry IV of France
- Dukes of Montmorency
- Princesses of Condé
- House of Bourbon
- Duchesses of Enghien
- House of Montmorency
- Burials at the Carmel du faubourg Saint-Jacques
- French Suo jure nobility
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