Claude of Trémoille

See also: Guy of Laval

Claude of Trémoïlle (1566 - October 25th 1604, Castle of Thouars). Wire of Louis III of Trémoille, duke of Thouars and Jeanne of Montmorency. He is thus the small son of the constable Anne de Montmorency.

Titles

  • 2nd duke of Thouars: 1577-1604.

It is duke of Trémoille, prince of Talmont and of Tarente, count of Laval, count of Taillebourg and Benon, count of Guînes, baron of Sully, Isle-Bouchard, Berrie, Mauléon and Doué, lord of Mareuil, of Onay, the Chaize-the-Viscount and Holy-Hermine, cousinant with most famous chalk-linings of the kingdom and in particular with the Bourbon-Montpensier and the Montmorency, was the most powerful Protestant lord of the Poitou and Saintonge, if not of the kingdom, after the Bourbon-Vendôme.

Biography

The king Henri IV which had appreciated the contest of the duke of Thouars when he was king de Navarre, constantly held it in a position subordinate when he became king of France. He preferred to make of the cousin-Germain de Claude: the Viscount of Turenne, Henri of the Tower of Auvergne, its right-hand man and to keep the duke of Thouars away. The Viscount of Turenne which owed all its capacity and its fortune to the king was manoeuvrable than the duke of Thouars which resulted from the one of the most famous families of France.

In 1587, Claude of Trémoille adopted the reformed religion.

It fought for Henri IV of France to Coutras and Ivry, and was rewarded by erection for the duchy for Thouars in Pairie, in 1595. But this peerage made him lose more money than it did not pay any to him.

In 1598, Henri of the Tower of Auvergne proposed with his/her sister-in-law Charlotte-Brabantine to marry her first cousin and companion of fight, Claude of Trémoille. Thanks to her relations with the houses of Orange and Bubble, Charlotte-Brabantine played soon a big role in the French Protestant diplomacy. In 1602, it dissuades her husband to engage in the conspiracy of Biron and incites it to lend allegiance to the sovereign. After the death of its husband in October 1604, it taken in hand the management of the family fields, whose surface was doubled in 1605 by the ground heritage vast in Brittany following the death of the count de Laval, Guy XX. Even after the abjuration of her son Henri III (July 1628), it continued to ensure the protection of the communities huguenotes of Thouars and Vitré.

Descendants

Married on March 11th 1598 with Charlotte-Brabantine of Orange-Nassau born the September 27th 1580 with Antwerp and died with Châteaurenard the August 19th 1631. It is the girl of Guillaume Ier of Orange-Nassau and Charlotte of Bourbon-Montpensier. From this union are born four children:

It had a natural son of its connection with Anne Garand:

  • Hannibal of Trémoïlle (1595 - July 30th 1670), Viscount of Marcilly. He married in 1629 Jacquette Derays exit of an old middle-class family of Thouars.

See too

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