Vallery is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Yonne

Yonne

Yonne is a French department named after the Yonne River. It is one of the four constituent departments of Burgundy in eastern France and its prefecture is Auxerre. Its official number is 89....

 department in Burgundy in north-central France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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History

The town was acquired by Louis de Bourbon

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:...

, prince de Condé

Prince of Condé

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

- uncle of the future Henry IV of France

Henry IV of France

Henry IV , Henri-Quatre, was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was the first monarch of the Bourbon branch of the Capetian dynasty in France....

. The town thus became one of the many lands that was acquired by the Condé family over the years. Louis' son Henri de Bourbon

Henry II de Bourbon, prince de Condé

Henri de Bourbon became Prince of Condé shortly after his birth, following the death of his father Henri I...

 stayed at the Château

Château de Vallery

The Early Renaissance French Château de Vallery, in Vallery, in the département of Yonne in the Burgundy region of France, was built in 1548 for Jacques d'Albon de Saint-André, marquis de Fronsac, a court favorite of Henri II and maréchal de France. It was never completed, and what remains of it...

 there. The land would stay with the family till 1735 when Mademoiselle de Charolais - descendant of Louis - sold the land.

The town was the traditional burial place of the Prince of Condé and their descendants; buried in the town are:

• Louis de Bourbon
  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:...
  
  , prince de Condé;
• Henri de Bourbon
  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....
  
  , prince de Condé;
• Henri de Bourbon
  Henry II de Bourbon, prince de Condé
  Henri de Bourbon became Prince of Condé shortly after his birth, following the death of his father Henri I...
  
  , prince de Condé;
• Éléonore de Bourbon
  Éléonore de Bourbon
  Éléonore de Bourbon was the daughter of Henri de Bourbon and his second wife Charlotte Catherine de la Tremoille. Eleonora's father was a first cousin of King Henry IV of France. She was also the aunt of the scheming Madame de Longueville and le Grand Condé...
  
  , comtesse de La Marche;
• Louis de Bourbon
  Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé
  Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé was a French general and the most famous representative of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon. Prior to his father's death in 1646, he was styled the Duc d'Enghien...
  
  , prince de Condé le Grand Condé;
• Henri Jule de Bourbon
  Henry III Jules de Bourbon, prince de Condé
  Henri Jules de Bourbon, Prince of Condé was prince de Condé, from 1686 to his death. At the end of his life he suffered from clinical lycanthropy and was considered insane.-Biography:...
  
  , prince de Condé;
• Henri de Bourbon, duc de Bourbon
• Louis de Bourbon
  Louis III, Prince of Condé
  Louis de Bourbon, , was Prince of Condé for less than a year, following the death of his father Henry III, Prince of Condé in 1709...
  
  , prince de Condé, Monsieur le Duc
• Henri de Bourbon (1672–1675), comte de Clermont;
• Louis Henri de Bourbon, comte de La Marche;
• Mademoiselle de Clermont (1679–1680)
• Louis Armand de Bourbon
  Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti
  Louis Armand I de Bourbon was Prince of Conti from 1666 to his death, succeeding his father, Armand de Bourbon. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, he was a Prince du Sang....
  
  , prince de Conti