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.

The youngest of five children born to Louis III de La Trémoïlle and Jeanne de Montmorency, Duke and Duchess of Thouars, members of two of France's oldest and most powerful families, the La Trémoïlles holding the rank of prince étranger at the French court. Her father was a loyalist of the House of Valois). Her maternal grandfather the Constable-Duke, Anne de Montmorency, had been taken captive with his king, Francis I, 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.

As part of her dowry of 20,000 écus d'or and 4 000 livres in annual allowance, Charlotte Catherine brought numerous properties into the Bourbon family which helped settle the debts of her husband's family.

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