Charlotte Catherine | |||||
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Princess of Condé | |||||
Born | 1568 France |
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Died | 29 August 1629 (aged 60–61) Paris, France |
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Burial | Église du monastère Sainte-Claire de l'Ave Maria, Paris, France | ||||
Spouse | Henri I, Prince of Condé | ||||
Issue Detail |
Éléonore, Princess of Orange Henri II, Prince of Condé |
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House | La Trémoille | ||||
Father | Louis III de La Trémoille, Duke of Thouars | ||||
Mother | Jeanne de Montmorency |
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Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoïlle |
Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoïlle (1568 – 29 August 1629) was a French noblewoman and, by marriage, Princess of Condé. By birth she belonged to the House of La Trémoïlle.
Charlotte Catherine was the youngest of five children born to Louis III de La Trémoille and Jeanne de Montmorency, Duke and Duchess of Thouars, members of two of France's oldest and most powerful families. Her father's family, the La Trémoïlles, held the rank of prince étranger at the French court, and her father was a loyalist of the House of Valois. Her maternal grandfather, Anne de Montmorency, Duke of Montmorency, had been taken captive with King Francis I of France, at the Battle of Pavia in February 1525.
She was married at between 17 and 18 years of age, on 16 March 1586 in the chateau de Taillebourg, after converting from Roman Catholicism to Protestantism. Her husband, Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, son of the late Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Condé and Eléanor de Roucy de Roye, was one of the most important men in the kingdom, both as military leader of the Huguenots and, after his cousin obtained the French throne as Henry IV, ranked as heir presumptive and premier prince du sang. The couple took up residence at a home of Condé's in Saint-Jean-d'Angély in southwestern France.