Charles, Duke of Vendôme

Charles de Bourbon ( * June 2, 1489 in Vendôme, † March 25, 1537 in Amiens ) was since 1495, Count of Vendôme, Soissons, Marle and Enghien and Baron of Condé -en- Brie, Montoire Lavardin, Mondoubleau and Épernon.

Origin

Charles was the eldest son and principal heir of François de Bourbon and his wife Marie de Luxembourg († 1547), daughter of Pierre II de Luxembourg. About his father he was descended from the younger branch of the house of Bourbon, which was of royal Capetian origin, descended from King Louis IX. the saints. His mother came from the French branch of the former Imperial House of Luxembourg.

Life

Charles participated in the wars against the Habsburgs in Italy and 1507 by King Louis XII. entrusted with the governorship of Genoa. On 14 May 1509 fought after he had been knighted at the Battle of Agnadello against Venice and then took part in the capture of Cremona and Padua. In January 1515 he inherited the ducal title was conferred with the peerage of Vendôme from the new King Francis I connected. In September of the same year Charles fought in the Battle of Marignano, which resulted in France could occupy the Duchy of Milan. In 1518 he took over the government of Picardy.

1523 was Charles personal profit out of the quarrel between the King and the Duke Charles III. de Bourbon- Montpensier beat. This was the head of the elder branch of the Bourbons, and thus became the throne after the royal house of Valois next. Through the treachery of the Duke of Bourbon but now moved Charles to the position of the first prince of the blood, a fact that was later important for his grandson Henri de Bourbon.

After the king had fallen in the battle of Pavia in 1525 in the captivity of the emperor Charles V, Charles was a member of the ruling council. In 1536 he shocked successfully besieged by the Emperor Peronne, which was defended by Catherine de Poix ( Marie Fouré ). Shortly thereafter, he died after a fever disease on Easter Sunday in Amiens. The Duke was buried in the collegiate church of Saint -Georges Vendôme.

Marriage and issue

Charles married on May 18, 1513 Françoise d' Alençon Châteaudun. She was a daughter of the Duke René d' Alençon and thus a member of a collateral branch of the French royal house of Valois. From her father she received the Vice- county Beaumont -au- Maine as a dowry, which was upgraded in 1543 to the Duchy. After the death of her heritage loose elder brother, Duke Charles IV, Françoise would become the rightful heir to his extensive possessions. The however, was denied her by King Francis I, because this made ​​her brother responsible for the heavy defeat at Pavia. Instead, the Alençon heritage was transferred to the widow of the Duke and the King's sister, Margaret of Angoulême. Through the marriage of Antoine de Bourbon with Jeanne d' Albret, daughter Margaret's second marriage, inheritance dispute this should be mitigated. Françoise died on 14 September 1550 in La Flèche.

The children of the couple were:

• Louis de Bourbon ( * September 23, 1514, † April 7, 1516 ), Count of Marle
• Marie de Bourbon ( * October 29, 1515, † September 28, 1538 )
• Marguerite de Bourbon ( born October 26, 1516; † October 20, 1559 in Angillon ), ∞ January 19, 1538 in the Louvre François I de Clèves, Duke of Nevers
• Antoine ( * April 22, 1518, † November 17, 1562 ), Duke of Vendôme, King of Navarre from 1555
• François ( * September 23, 1519, † February 23, 1546 ), Count of Enghien
• Madeleine de Bourbon ( born February 3, 1521 † 1561 ), Abbess of Notre Dame la Grande in Poitiers
• Louis de Bourbon ( May 3, 1522 † June 25, 1525 )
• Charles ( born December 22, 1523 † May 9, 1590 ), the Cardinal de Bourbon, Archbishop of Rouen, as " Charles X " temporarily pretender of the Catholic League
• Catherine de Bourbon ( born September 18, 1525 † April 27, 1594 in Paris), Abbess of Notre Dame of Soissons
• Renée de Bourbon ( * February 6, 1527; † February 9, 1583 ), Abbess of Chelles
• Jean ( born July 6, 1528 but † fallen on August 10, 1557 at the Battle of Saint- Quentin ), Count of Enghien and Estouteville, Count of Soissons
• Louis ( * May 7, 1530, † March 13, 1569 ), Prince of Condé, founder of the House of Bourbon - Condé
• Eleonore de Bourbon ( * January 18, 1532, † March 26, 1611 ), Abbess of Fontevraud

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