François de Bourbon, prince de Conti
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19 August 1558 1 La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, France |
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| Died | 3 August 1614 (aged 55) Paris, France |
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| Spouse | Jeanne de Coesme Louise Marguerite of Lorraine |
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| Father | Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé | ||||
| Mother | Eléanor de Roucy de Roye | ||||
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| François de Bourbon |
François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (19 August 1558 – 3 August 1614) was the third son of Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, a junior line of the House of Bourbon, and his first wife Eléanor de Roucy de Roye). He was given the title of Marquis of Conti and between 1581 and 1597 was elevated to the rank of a prince. The title of Prince of Conti was honorary and did not carry any territorial jurisdiction.
François was born in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, in the Île-de-France region. He was a member of a junior line of the House of Bourbon, his first cousin being the future Henri IV of France. Brought up within a highly protestant family, his mother died in 1564 followed by his father in 1569. His father remarried Françoise d'Orléans, Mademoiselle de Longueville in 1565 and had a further three children, Charles, Count of Soissons being the only child to survive infancy.
Conti, who belonged to the older faith, appears to have taken no part in the French Wars of Religion until 1587, when his distrust of Henri of Lorraine, Duke of Guise caused him to declare against the League and to support his cousin Henri of Navarre, afterwards King Henri IV.
In 1589 after the murder of Henri III he was one of the two princes of the blood who signed the declaration recognising Henri IV as king, and continued to support him even though he himself was mentioned as a candidate for the throne upon the death of Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon in 1590.
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