Charles, Count of Soissons

Charles de Bourbon- Soissons ( born November 3, 1566 Nogent -le- Rotrou, † November 1, 1612 at Castle of Blandy -les- Tours), Mr. Condé, Count of Soissons, Dreux, Château- Chinon, Noyers, Baugé and Blandy -les -Tours, Knight of the Order of the Holy spirit, Grand Master of France, governor of the Dauphiné and Normandy, as well as viceroy of New France.

He was a son of Louis I de Bourbon and his second wife, Françoise d' Orléans - Longueville.

Charles married on December 17, 1601 Anne, Comtesse de Montafié et de Clermont -en- Beauvaisis, Dame de Lucé (* 1577, † June 17, 1644 ) with whom he had the following children:

• Louise (1603-1637), Mademoiselle de Soissons, married in 1617 Duke Henri II d' Orléans, Duke of Longueville ( House of Orléans - Longueville )
• Louis (1604-1641), Comte de Soissons
• Marie Marguerite (1606-1692), Comtesse de Soissons, ∞ Thomas of Savoy - Carignan
• Charlotte Anne (1608-1623)
• Elisabeth (1610-1611)

With Anne Marie Bohier he left also two extramarital daughters:

• Charlotte (1593-1626), Abbess of Maubuisson
• Catherine ( † 1610), Abbess of Perigne -au Mans