Louis de Bourbon-Condé, comte de Clermont

Louis de Bourbon-Condé, comte de Clermont (15 June1709-16 June1771) [ Willis, Daniel, "The Descendants of Louis XIII", Clearfield Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1999, ISBN 0-8063-4942-5. p. 74.] , was a member of the cadet Bourbon-Condé branch of the French royal house.

Life

He was the third and youngest son of Louis III de Bourbon-Condé, prince de Condé (1668-1710) and Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Nantes (1673-1743), an illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his mistress Madame de Montespan. He was also the great-grandson of Louis II de Bourbon-Condé, prince de Condé, the Great Condé, who died in 1687.

His oldest brother, Louis Henri I, duc de Bourbon (later prince de Condé) (1692-1740) was the head of Bourbon-Condé family from 1710 to his death, and was King Louis XV's "Premier Ministre" (prime minister) from 1723 to 1726.

The comte de Clermont is perhaps best known to history as the fifth Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of France, the supreme Masonic authority in France, which existed from 1728/29 to c.1773. [Bernheim, Allain; "A Brief History of French Freemasonry;" 1997, "The Plumbline," Vol. 6, No. 1, Scottish Rite Research Society]

He was elected and installed in that office in 1743 and retained the position until his death, and was succeeded by his nephew, Philippe II d'Orléans known as the duc de Chartres, afterwards duc d'Orleans. [Coil, Henry Wilson; "Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia"; 1961, rev. 1996; Macoy Publishing Co., Richmond, VA.]

Ancestry

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1= 1. Louis de Bourbon-Condé, comte de Clermont
2= 2. Louis III, Prince of Condé
3= 3. Louise-Françoise de Bourbon
4= 4. Henry III Jules de Bourbon, prince de Condé
5= 5. Anne-Henriette de Bavière
6= 6. Louis XIV of France
7= 7. Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan
8= 8. Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé
9= 9. Claire Clémence de Maillé Brézé
10= 10. Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern
11= 11. Anna Gonzaga
12= 12. Louis XIII
13= 13. Anne of Austria
14= 14. Gabriel de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart
15= 15. Diane de Grandseigne
16= 16. Henry II de Bourbon, prince de Condé
17= 17. Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency
18= 18. Urbain de Maillé-Brézé
19= 19. Nicole du Plessis de Richelieu
20= 20. Frederick V, Elector Palatine
21= 21. Elizabeth of Bohemia
22= 22. Charles I, Duke of Mantua
23= 23. Catherine of Lorraine
24= 24. Henri IV of France
25= 25. Marie de Medicis
26= 26. Philip III of Spain
27= 27. Margaret of Austria
28= 28. René de Rochechouart, Seigneur de Mortemart
29= 29. Jeanne de Saulx de Tavannes
30= 30. Jean de Grandseigne, marquis de Marsillac
31= 31. Catherine de La Béraudière, Dame de Villenon

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