Louis Ier de Bourbon-Cop

See also: Louis de Bourbon

Louis Ier de Bourbon, prince de Condé, duke of Enghien (Vendôme, May 7th 1530 - Jarnac, March 13rd 1569) are a general Huguenot at the origin of the Maison of Cop .

Brother of the king Antoine de Navarre and thus the uncle of Henri IV. Converted on Protestantism, it was essential like the chief of the party calvinist during the wars of religion.

First military career

Under the impulse of Louis de Condé and Coligny, the new faith is established with Sancerre, calvinist since 1548, in Bourges and Issoudun, then with Châtre, Aubigny and Saint-Amand. It makes its first weapons under the marshal of Brissac in Piedmont, and is distinguished in several actions. It fights the Imperial ones at the time of the seat of Metz in 1552 and the battles of Saint-Quentin in 1557.

Wars of religion

After the death of Henri II, dissatisfactions which the Guise make him wipe throw it in the violent action. It is the dumb captain of the Conjuration of Amboise (1560), which it fights finally to give the exchange. Captive fact, it is released because the Guise with the capacity did not have a proof of its participation in the conspiracy. However, it is again made prisoner during the summer after it had been discovered that it prepared a new plot. Condemned to death, the execution is deferred by the chancellor Michel of Hospital, then it is released by Catherine de Médicis, which needs the counterweight that a prince of blood vis-a-vis the Own way represents, after the death of the king François II.

First war

After the massacre of Vassy (March 1562), it publishes a proclamation where it proclaims its will to deliver the regent and the king of the Own way (August), obtains promises of assistance of Germany, and seizes several cities of the Loire Valley with a handle of riders. The Protestants take the control of the valley of the Rhone, Dauphine, of Languedoc, of Lyon. But no reinforcement can reach him, neither of these areas nor of Guyenne. It loses the Bataille of Dreux and is made there prisoner (1562). It is released by the Paix of Amboise of 1563, which grants the huguenots a certain religious tolerance.

Second war

It takes again the weapons in 1567, delivers the battles of Saint-Denis, which remains undecided.

Third war

During the truce which follows the Paix of Longjumeau, it is withdrawn with Noyers. He flees of it on August 23rd, threatened by the royal troops, and joined La Rochelle with Coligny on September 19th. They find there Jeanne d' Albret and her Gascons, accompanied by the sior of Piles and his gentilhommes périgourdins, and by the riders of the seneshal of Poitou Fonteraille, then later by the baron d' Acier.

The confrontation with the royal army takes place on March 13rd 1569 with Jarnac. Wounded during the combat, Condé tries to go when he is assassinated of a blow of gun by Montesquiou, captain with the guards (the red coats ) of the duke of Anjou.

Walked on an ass, its corpse is the object of the gibes of the catholic army before being exposed during two days on a table with the castle of Jarnac.

It is the first of its family which one called the Prince Mr.

Its alleged Mémoires is a compilation various writings relating to the history of the Protestants of its time.

Children

Of its marriage in 1551 with Eléonore De Roye (1535-1564), it had:

See too

External bonds

  • Iconography:

    • Portrait towards 1561 - oil on wood - Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon
    • Portrait supposed towards 1565 - drawing (lead pencil, blood) - Chantilly, museum Cop

Sources

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