Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (May 7, 1530 – March 13, 1569) was a Huguenot leader and general. Prince of Condé is a title in French peerage, attributed for the first time to Louis of Bourbon, brother of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome and uncle of Henry IV of France. ... May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... Events June 25 - Augsburg confession presented to Charles V of Holy Roman Empire. ... March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... Events January 11 - First recorded lottery in England. ... In the 16th and 17th centuries, the name of Huguenots came to apply to members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France. ...

As a general in the French army he fought against the Spanish at the siege of Metz in 1552 and the Battle of Saint Quentin in 1557. After his conversion to Protestantism he became involved in the Conspiracy of Amboise in 1560, a plot by the Huguenots and the House of Bourbon to abduct the infant King Francis II and usurp the power of the Guise family. The plot failed, leading to the masacre of many Huguenots. Location within France Rhine watershed Metz is a city in the North-East of France, capital of the Lorraine région and of the département of Moselle (57). ... Events April - War between Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V. Henry invades Lorraine and captures Toul, Metz, and Verdun. ... Events Spain is effectively bankrupt. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Events February 27 - The Treaty of Berhick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland The first tulip bulb was brought from Turkey to the Netherlands. ... The House of Bourbon dates from at least the beginning of the 13th century, when the estate of Bourbon was ruled by a Lord, vassal of France. ... François II Francis II (French: François II) (January 19, 1544 - December 5, 1560) was a King of France (1559 - 1560). ... The House of Guise was a French ducal family, primarily responsible for the French Wars of Religion. ...

Condé commanded the Huguenots in the Wars of Religion and was captured at Dreux in 1562. He negotiated the Peace of Amboise in 1563, which gave the Huguenots some religious toleration. The wars broke out again in 1567 and 1568, and Condé was killed at the Battle of Jarnac. The French Wars of Religion were a series of conflicts fought between the Catholic League and the Huguenots from the middle of the sixteenth century to the Edict of Nantes in 1598. ... Dreux is a town and commune in northwest France, in the Eure-et-Loir département. ... Events Earliest English slave-trading expedition under John Hawkins. ... Events February 1 - Sarsa Dengel succeeds his father Menas as Emperor of Ethiopia February 18 - The Duke of Guise is assassinated while besieging Orléans March - Peace of Amboise. ... Events The Duke of Alva arrives in the Netherlands with Spanish forces to suppress unrest there. ... Events March 23 - Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. ...

His son, Henri I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (1552–1588), was also a Huguenot general. His older brother Antoine de Bourbon married Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre and their son became Henry IV of France. Henri I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (1552 – 1588) was, like his father Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, a French Huguenot general. ... Events May 12 - Day of the Barricades in Paris. ... Antoine de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (22 April 1518 _ 17 November 1562). ... Jeanne dAlbret Jeanne dAlbret (January 7, 1528 – June 9, 1572) was Queen of Navarre from 1555 to 1572, wife of Antoine de Bourbon, duke of Vendome and mother of Henry IV of France. ... Navarre (Spanish Navarra, Basque Nafarroa) is an autonomous community and province of Spain. ... Henry IV (French: Henri IV) (December 13, 1553 – May 14, 1610), called the Great (French: le Grand), was the first of the Bourbon kings of France, reigning from 1589 until 1610. ...

Children

• Henri I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (1552–1588)
• Charles de Bourbon, comte de Soissons (1566-1612)

Henri I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (1552 – 1588) was, like his father Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, a French Huguenot general. ... Events April - War between Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V. Henry invades Lorraine and captures Toul, Metz, and Verdun. ... Events May 12 - Day of the Barricades in Paris. ... Charles de Bourbon, comte de Soissons (1566-1612), prince of France, was the son of Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé and his second wife Françoise de Longueville-Rothelin. ... Events January 7 - Pius V becomes Pope Selim II succeeds Suleiman I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Religious rioting in the Netherlands signifies the beginning of the Eighty Years War in the Netherlands. ... Events January 20 - Mathias becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ...

See also

• Bourbon family tree