Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon

Henri de La Tour d' Auvergne ( born September 28, 1555 Castle Joze, Auvergne, † March 25, 1623 in Sedan Castle ) was Duke of Bouillon and as of March 9, 1592 Marshal of France. He worked as a military leader, diplomat, politician and leader of the French Huguenots. He was also a sovereign prince of Sedan, Prince of Raucourt, Count of Montfort and Beaufort, Vicomte de Turenne and Baron d' Oliergues.

Family

Henri was the only son of Francois ' III. de La Tour d' Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Baron de Montgascon (1526-1557) and his wife Éléonore de Montmorency.

In his first marriage he married in October 1591 Charlotte de La Marck, sovereign Duchess of Bouillon and Princess of Sedan. She brought her rich possessions into the marriage, and died in 1594 in childbirth, after the newborn son had died on the day of his birth.

By agreement dated April 16, 1595 took Henri Elisabeth of Orange- Nassau, daughter of William the Silent, to his second wife. With her he had eight children:

Louise (* 1596, † 1606 )
Marie ( * 1600, † 1665), ∞ Henri de La Trémoille, duc de Thouars, Prince of Talmont
Julienne Catherine ( * 1604, † 1637 ) ∞ Francois II de Roye de la Rochefoucauld, Count of Roucy
Frédéric -Maurice (* 1605, † 1652), Duke of Bouillon
Elisabeth ( * 1606, † 1685), ∞ Aldonce Guy de Durfort, marquis of Duras and Lorges
Henri ( * 1611, † 1675), General Marshal of France
Henriette Catherine ( † 1677), ∞ with Amaury III. Gouyon, marquis de La Moussaye, comte de Quintin
Charlotte ( † 1662)

Until 1610 Henri also looked after Frederick of the Palatinate, the son of his sister, the Electress Louise Juliana of Orange- Nassau.

Life

The Duke fought with Henry IV against the Catholic League, but fled to Geneva in 1603, when he could be arrested for the conspiracy of the Duke of Biron, a plot against the king.

In 1606 he was reconciled with the king and returned to the court. Under the regent Marie de Medici, he was a member of the Privy Council, he left again because of a dispute with the Queen.

He participated in a number of pro- Calvinist intrigue and withdrew later in his independent Duchy of Bouillon back, which he had acquired by his marriage to his first wife. He founded a library and the Protestant Academy of Sedan, before he died in this city on March 25, 1623.