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Bourbon - Encyclopedia.com (1685 words) |
 | Robert of Clermont, sixth son of Louis IX of France, married (1272) Beatrice, heiress of Bourbon, and is considered the founder of the line. |
| A younger son of Louis, 1st duc de Bourbon, gave issue to the line of Bourbon-Vendôme. The marriage (1548) of Antoine de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme, with Jeanne d'Albret added vast territories in S France (see Albret) and the title king of Navarre to his other fiefs (Vendôme, Périgord, Rouergue). |
| Antoine's son became (1589) the first Bourbon king of France as Henry IV, the older branches of Louis IX's issue having become extinct (see Valois). |
| Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon Conde duc d'Enghien - LoveToKnow 1911 (645 words) |
| LOUIS ANTOINE HENRI DE BOURBON CONDE, ENGHIEN Due D' (1772-1804), was the only son of Henri Louis Joseph, prince of Conde, and of Louise Marie Therese Mathilde, sister of the duke of Orleans (Philippe Egalite), and was born at Chantilly on the 2nd of August 1772. |
| He was educated privately by the abbe Millot, and received a military training from the commodore de Virieux. |
| It is now known that Josephine and Mme de Remusat had begged Napoleon for mercy towards the duke; but nothing would bend his will. |
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