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  Antoine de Bourbon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was born at La Fère, Picardie, France, the son of Charles IV de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (1489-1537) and his wife, formerly Francoise d'Alencon (-1550).
He was the older brother of Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé.
Married Henry I, Duke of Lorraine in 1599.
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 Jeanne d'Albret biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Jeanne d'Albret (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.
Jeanne was born in Pau in 1528, the daughter of Henry II of Navarre and Marguerite of Navarre.
Antoine de Bourbon chose to support the Catholics, but was mortally wounded at the siege of Rouen.
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 Henri IV (1553-1610)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Henry de Bourbon-Navarre was the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke de Vendôme, and Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre from 1555.
On the death of Henry III's brother, François, Duke d'Anjou, in 1584, Henry de Bourbon-Navarre became the heir presumptive to the throne of France.
The Duke de Mercoeur came to terms with the king in March 1598, and the Peace of Vervins was reached between France and Spain on May 2, 1598.
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 Henry IV Of France Information - Articles Free   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Henry IV of France (French: Henri IV de France; December 13, 1553–May 14, 1610), was the first of the Bourbon kings of France, reigning from 1589 until his death.
Antoine de Bourbon (1518 – 1562), 8th cousin of kings Charles VIII and Francis I, who was the son of:
The restored Bourbons were keen to downplay the contested reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI, and instead emphasized the reign of the benevolent Henry IV.
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 Henri IV
Henri IV, King of France, the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, head of the younger branch of the Bourbons, descendant of Robert of Clermont, sixth son of St. Louis and of Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, was born at Pau (Basses Pyrénées) on the 14th of December 1553.
During the third war of religion in France (1568-70) he was taken by his mother to Gaspard de Coligny, leader of the Protestant forces since the death of Louis I, prince of Condé, at Jarnac, and distinguished himself at the battle of Arnay-le-Duc in Burgundy in 1569.
By Marie de Medici he had Louis, later Louis XIII; Gaston, Duke of Orleans; Elizabeth, who married Philip IV of Spain; Christine, Duchess of Savoy; and Henrietta, wife of King Charles I of England.
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 Henry IV of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
He was the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre.
He became the legal heir to the French throne upon the death in 1584 of François, Duke of Alençon, brother and heir to King Henri III, who had succeeded Charles IX in 1574.
Although he was a man of kindness, compassion, and good humor, and much loved by his people, King Henri IV was assassinated on 14 May, 1610 in Paris, by a fanatic called François Ravaillac, and was buried at Saint Denis Basilica.
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 Coteau de France: D'Aspit Family Connecting Lines
Enelo Arista was descended from the ancient dukes of Gasconia, descendants of the Merovingian Kings of Toulouse.
Louis de Beaumont was the grandson of Louis of Navarre, Count of Beaumont-le-Roger, third son of Phillipe III King of Navarre.
Jean-Jacques de Mesmes became the principal negotiator in the marriage of Jeanne d’Albret, heiress of Navarre to Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome in 1544.
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 Henry IV of France - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Henry IV was the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre.
However, the great-great-grandfather of César de Bourbon-Busset, called Louis de Bourbon (1438 — 1482), Bishop of Liège, and 4th cousin of François de Bourbon-Vendôme (1470 — 1495), had married without the approval of his cousin King Louis XI, before becoming bishop.
Elisabeth de France (November 22, 1602 - October 6, 1644) - married Philip IV of Spain on November 25, 1615 in Bordeaux.
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 FRANCE HISTORY, the Bourbon dinasty, french history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The Bourbons first became an important family in 1268, with the marriage of Robert, Count of Clermont, sixth son of king Louis IX of France, to Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress to the lordship of Bourbon.
Marie de' Medici wasted the wealth amassed by Henri IV.; she never purged herself of the charge of having known of the king's assassination; her /intimate/ was d'Epernon, who did not ward off Ravaillac's blow, and who was proved to have known the murderer personally for a long time.
The son of Louis, Duke of Burgundy and Marie-Adélaide of Savoy, and great-grandson of King Louis XIV, Louis was part of the Bourbon Dynasty.
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 Paradox Interactive Forums - The Royal Court of Navarra in Pamplona
King Navarre, Duke of Vendome and Albret, Count of Pau, Pamplona, Bearn, Vizcaya and Guipúzcoa, is the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre.
Marguerite was made to marry Henri de Bourbon (later Henri de Navarre), the son of the Protestant Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, a marriage that was designed to reunite family ties and create harmony between the Catholics and Huguenots.
Though the duke wishes nothing but the greatest dowry fit for the son of a king, the king of Navarre must know that the coffers of Kleves are drained by the gargantuan effort of turning back the turks.
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Her husband was unfaithful to their marriage, unfaithful to the evangelical cause, and ultimately showed himself to be a vain and frivolous man. Nonetheless the union of Antoine and Jeanne brought forth six children, two of whom survived, a daughter and a future King of France, the renowned Henry IV.
After the death of Antoine at the siege of Rouen in 1562, she acquired greater freedom to serve the cause of God and truth in her own realm.
Antoine, unhappy that Jeanne would not return to the old religion, took her two surviving children from her to be tutored by Roman Catholic teachers.
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 Jeanne d'Albret
In 1548, she agreed to marry Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome.
Her husband’s corruption, at the hands’ the Catholic court of the Valois where Catherine de Medici governed as regent, was one of the most humiliating aspects of Jeanne’s life.
Antoine’s false indifference towards “the Huguenot cause” dashed the hopes of the Calvinist party, igniting a rebellion.
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 A GEOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH HISTORY
as Henry IV Son of Antoine de Bourbon, duke of Vendôme, and of Jeanne d'Albret and the grandson of Henry II d'Albret, King of Navarre
Charlotte de Montmorency, sister and heir of the last duke of Montmorency, married in 1609 to Henri II, PRINCE OF CONDÉ (1588-1646), cousin of the king and first prince of the blood.
     Laura Mancini (1635-1656), married in 1651 to the duke of Mercoeur (!).
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 Ancestors and Family of Henry IV the Great of France de Bourbon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Henry de Bourbon-Navarre was the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke de Vendôme, and Jeanne d' Albret, queen of Navarre from 1555.
Henry married Margaret de Valois, daughter of Henry II of France de Valois and Catherine of Florence de Medici, on 18 Aug 1572 in Paris, France.
Henry next married Marie de' Medici, daughter of Francesco I of Tuscany de' Medici and Joanna of Austria, on 17 Dec 1600.
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 Jeanne d'Albret   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Jeanne d'Albret (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.
In 1541 Jeanne married William, Duke of Cleves, annulled in 1545, with no issue.
On October 20 1548 she married Antoine de Bourbon.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/J/Jeanne-d'Albret.htm   (383 words)

  
 Province of Auvergne, France
Henry IV, the first Bourbon to become king of France (1589), was the son of Antoine de Bourbon, duke of Vendôme and king of Navarre.
The Puy de Dôme (1,463 m/4,800 ft) is the highest of a chain of recent volcanic peaks (the Monts Dôme, which became extinct some 4000 years ago) overlooking Clermont-Ferrand from the west.
The trend was started in the 17th century by nobles such as the Marquise de Sevigné and the Duchess of Angoulême; later, the arrival of rail travel in the early 20th century attracted the middle classes.
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 info: Henry_of_Navarre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
De Guise forced Henry III to issue an edict suppressing Protestantism and excluding Henry of Navarre from the throne.
Catherine de Medici, to her son, the 13-year-old Charles IX (three years older than Henry of Navarre), telling him what he must do to make the French andquot;live in peace and love their King.andquot; (b...
The andquot;sunandquot; and andquot;liliesandquot; metaphors point to Henry of Navarre because the sun was the main feature of his mother's coat of arms and the lily was the...
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 The History of Protestantism by J. A. Wylie
To such a woman the holy doctrines of Protestantism could not be other than offensive; in truth, she very thoroughly hated all of the religion, and much of the righteous blood shed in the reign of Henry II is to be laid at the door of the lewd, greedy, and cruel Diana of Poictiers.
Anthony de Bourbon had married Jeanne d'Albret, who was the most illustrious woman of her time, and one of the most illustrious women in all history.
His mother, Louise de Montmorency, a lady of lofty virtue and sincere piety, was happily spared to him, and by her instructions and example those seeds were sown in his youthful mind which afterwards bore so noble fruit in the cause of his country's religion and liberty.
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 Henry IV of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
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.
As a Protestant, he was involved in the Wars of Religion before acceding to the throne; to become King of France he converted to Catholicism and signed the Edict of Nantes, granting religious liberties to the Protestants and effectively ending the civil war.
In France, Henry IV was (and still is) informally nicknamed le bon roi Henri ("good king Henry").
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 Prince of Bearn. (from Henry IV) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
duke of Bavaria (as Henry VIII, 1055–61), German king (from 1054), and Holy Roman emperor (1084–1105/06), who engaged in a long struggle with Hildebrand (Pope Gregory VII) on the question of lay investiture (see Investiture Controversy), eventually drawing excommunication on himself and doing penance at Canossa (1077).
But this Austrian statesman and minister of foreign affairs did the public a great service: his leadership at the Congress of Vienna resulted in a balance of power that kept Europe at peace for nearly 100 years.
As grand duke of Lithuania from 1440 to 1492 and king of Poland from 1447 to 1492, Casimir IV was neither a man of great ambition nor a great warrior.
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 Search Results for Bearn - Encyclopædia Britannica
king of Navarre (as Henry III, 1572–89) and first Bourbon king of France (1589–1610), who, at the end of the Wars of Religion, abjured Protestantism and converted to Roman Catholicism (1593) in order...
Condé, Henri I de Bourbon, 2e prince de (2nd prince of)
prince of Condé who continued the leadership of the Huguenots begun by his father, Louis I de Bourbon, 1st prince of Condé.
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 henri information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Henry IV (December 13, 1553 - May 14, 1610) was King of France from 1589 -1610, the first of the Bourbon kings of France.
On August 18 1572 Henry married Marguerite de Valois, sister of the then King Charles IX In the same year he became king Henry III of Navarre, succeeding his mother Jeanne d'Albret, who had brought him up as a Huguenot.
More than a quarter of a mile long and one hundred feet wide, this huge addition wasbuilt along the bank of the Seine River and at the time was the longest edifice of its kind in the world.
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 French History of the Bourbon Dynasty
However the stubborn Chambord refused to accept the throne unless France abandoned the revolution-inspired tricolore and accepted what he regarded as the true Bourbon flag of France, something the French National Assembly could not possibly agree to.
A temporary Third Republic was established, while monarchists waited for Chambord to die and for the succession to pass to the Comte de Paris, who was willing to accept the tricolour.
The Bourbon pretender to the throne of France, the Comte de Chambord, was offered a restored throne following the collapse of the empire of Emperor Napoleon III in 1870.
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 heni information,henri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Although he was a man of kindness, compassion, and good humor, and much loved by his people, King heni IV was assassinated on 14 May, 1610 in Paris, by a fanatic called François Ravaillac, and was buried at Saint Denis Basilica.
While the rest of France marks the end of monarchist rule each year on Bastille Day, in heni's birthplace of Pau, his reign as king of France is celebrated.
On August 18, 1572, he married, firstly, Marguerite de Valois, annulled in 1599, with nochildren.
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 Antoine of Bourbon, duke of Vendome/king of Navarra April 22 in History
Antoine of Bourbon, duke of Vendome/king of Navarra April 22 in History
Antoine of Bourbon, duke of Vendome/king of Navarra
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
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 Henry IV of France biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
As a Protestant he was involved in the Wars of Religion before acceding to the throne; as King he converted to Catholicism and signed the Edict of Nantes, granting religious liberties to the Protestants and effectively ending the civil war.
His marriage was anulled in 1599 and he then married in 1600 Marie de Médicis.
(Frankreich) et:Henri IV es:Enrique IV de Francia eo:Henriko la 4-a (Francio) fr:Henri IV de France nl:Hendrik van Navarra ja:アンリ4世 (フランス王) pl:Henryk IV (król Francji) sv:Henrik IV av Frankrike
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 Antoine of Bourbon, duke of Vendome/huguenot, dies in battle at 47 November 17 in History
Antoine of Bourbon, duke of Vendome/huguenot, dies in battle at 47 November 17 in History
Antoine of Bourbon, duke of Vendome/huguenot, dies in battle at 47
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
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 Any-Day-in-History PAGE of SCOPE SYSTEMS.
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1929 Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich composer, dies at 86
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