Henry II de Bourbon, prince de Condé

Henri de Bourbon became Prince of Condé

Prince of Condé

The Most Serene House of Condé is a historical French house, a noble lineage of descent from a single ancestor...

shortly after his birth, following the death of his father Henri I. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon

House of Bourbon

The House of Bourbon is a European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty . Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Bourbon dynasty also held thrones in Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma...

, he was a Prince du Sang

Prince du Sang

A prince of the blood was a person who was legitimately descended in the male line from the monarch of a country. In France, the rank of prince du sang was the highest held at court after the immediate family of the king during the ancien régime and the Bourbon Restoration...

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He married Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency in 1609 and had three children, all of them protagonists of the Fronde
Fronde
The Fronde was a civil war in France, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635. The word fronde means sling, which Parisian mobs used to smash the windows of supporters of Cardinal Mazarin....

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Issue

Anne Geneviève de Bourbon (1619–1679), married to Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville
Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (1621–1686) married to Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé
Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé
Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé, Princess of Condé , Princess of Condé and Duchess of Fronsac, was a French noblewoman from the Brézé family and a niece of Cardinal Richelieu...
Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti
Prince of Conti
The title of Prince of Conti was a French noble title, assumed by a cadet branch of the house of Bourbon-Condé. It was taken from Conty, a small town of northern France, c. 35 km southwest of Amiens, which came into the Condé family by the marriage of Louis of Bourbon, first prince of Condé,...

(1629–1666), married to Anne Marie Martinozzi
Anne Marie Martinozzi
Anne Marie Martinozzi, Princess of Conti was a niece of King Louis XIV of France's chief minister Cardinal Mazarin, and the wife of Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti. She became the mother of the libertine François Louis, Prince of Conti, le Grand Conti...

Ancestors

Henry's ancestors in three generations
Henry II de Bourbon, prince de Condé	Father: Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé Henri de Bourbon-Condé was a French Prince du Sang and Huguenot general like his more prominent father, Louis I, Prince of Condé....	Father's father: Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé Louis de Bourbon was a prominent Huguenot leader and general, the founder of the House of Condé, a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon.-Life:...	Father's father's father: Charles of Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme
			Father's father's mother: Françoise of Alençon
		Father's mother: Eléanor de Roucy de Roye Eléanor de Roucy de Roye Eléanor de Roucy de Roye, princesse de Condé was the eldest daughter and heiress of Charles, seigneur de Roye and de Muret, comte de Roucy. Her mother, Madeleine de Mailly, dame de Conti, was the daughter of Louise de Montmorency and half-sister of Admiral Coligny, d'Andelot, and Cardinal de...	Father's mother's father: Charles de Roye
			Father's mother's mother: Madeleine de Maillé
	Mother: Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille was a French noblewoman and Princess of Condé by marriage. She was a member of the House of La Trémoille.-Biography:...	Mother's father: Louis III de La Trémoille Louis III de La Trémoille Louis III de La Trémoille , 1st Duke of Thouars, was a sixteenth-century French nobleman of the La Tremoille family. He was the son of François II de La Trémoille and his wife, Anne de Laval....	Mother's father's father: François II de La Trémoille François II de La Trémoille François de La Trémoille was a French nobleman of the La Tremoille family. He was the son of Charles I de la Trémoille and of Louise de Coëtivy, and the grandson of Louis II de la Trémoille and of Gabrielle de Bourbon.-Titles:He held the title of 36th vicomte of Thouars...
			Mother's father's mother: Anne de Laval Anne de Laval (1505-1554) Anne de Laval , princesse de Tarente, was a French noblewoman and nominal pretender to the Kingdom of Naples...
		Mother's mother: Jeanne de Montmorency	Mother's mother's father: Anne de Montmorency Anne de Montmorency Anne de Montmorency, duc de Montmorency, Honorary Knight of the Garter was a French soldier, statesman and diplomat. He became Marshal of France and Constable of France.-Early life:...
			Mother's mother's mother: Madeleine of Savoy

Titles and styles

1 September 1588 - 26 December 1646 His Serene Highness The Duke of Enghien
26 December 1646 - 26 December 1646 His Serene Highness The Prince of Condé

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