Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti

Armand de Bourbon, prince de Conti ( born October 11, 1629 in Paris, † February 21, 1666 at his country house in Pezenas Grangeau Prés ), French nobleman, prince of the blood, founder of the younger branch of the House of Bourbon -Conti.

Life

Armand, the youngest son of Henry II of Condé and his wife Charlotte -Marguerite de Montmorency, brother of the great Condé, was originally intended due to his poor misshapen body into a spiritual state and already the owner of several benefices, but fought in the ranks of the Fronde against the yard, was arrested in 1650 with his brother and the duke of Longueville and only 1651 set at liberty.

When the great Condé raised the standard of revolt, Conti made ​​common cause with him, but soon became reconciled with the court and even married Mazarin's niece, Anna Maria Martinozzi (1637-1677) (see also House Mazarin Mancini ), giving it as dowry the province of Guienne earned. Children from this marriage were:

• Louis ( * / † 1658)
• Louis Armand I. (1661-1685), Prince de Conti
• François Louis "the great Conti " (1664-1709), Prince de La Roche -sur- Yon, Prince de Conti 1685

In the war against Spain in 1654 entrusted with a command, he conquered Villafranca and Puycerda. In the Italian campaign of 1657 he fought unhappy. 1660 province of Languedoc, he was assigned.

He wrote, among other things, an antibody directed against the theater Traité de la comédie et des spectacles (Paris 1667).