Charles of Angouleme (1573-1650)

See also: Charles of Angouleme, Charles de Valois

Charles de Valois , count d' Auvergne, then duke of Angouleme, (Castle of Fayet (Dauphine), April 28th 1573 - Paris, September 24th 1650), wire naturalness of Charles IX and Marie Touchet (1549-1638), lady of Belleville.

In 1586, he becomes abbot of Chair-God.

He was imprisoned with the Bastille in 1604 to have conspired against Henri IV. The 1605, it is condemned by stop of the Parliament to have the sliced head, but its sorrow commuted to perpetual prison. It recovers freedom the June 26th 1616 under Louis XIII, and fought valiantly in Languedoc, Germany in Lorraine and Flanders. He becomes count of Ponthieu in 1619.

Between 1619 and 1637, he is general colonel of the light cavalry of France.

He is general against the rebels of La Rochelle.

Married in first weddings by contract with Pézenas in the department of the Herault the May 5th 1591 with Charlotte de Montmorency (girl of Henri Ier de Montmorency and of Antoinette of the Mark). They had 3 children.

Married in second weddings the February 25th 1644 in the church of Boissy-Saint-Leger, Department of the Valley-of-Marne, in Francoise de Nargonne (girl of Charles de Nargonne baron of Mareuil-in-Brie, governor of the Tower of Goat, and Léonore of the River). Without posterity of this union.

Of Isabelle de Crécy, it leaves 2 girls.

There are of him Mémoires on the reigns of Henri III and Henri IV , Paris, 1662.

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