Henri de Bourbon-Condé
Prince of Condé
Years: 1552 - 1588
Henri de Bourbon-Condé (Henry I, Prince of Condé; December 29, 1552 – March 5, 1588) is a French Prince du Sang and Huguenot general like his more prominent father, Louis I, Prince of Condé.
Henri is the eldest son of Louis of Bourbon-Condé and Eléanor de Roucy de Roye.
Of the eight children in his family, he and his brother François, Prince of Conti are the only ones to have issue.
He had a younger half-brother, Charles, Count of Soissons, from his father's second marriage.
His first cousin becomes King Henry IV of France.
He marries twice, first to his cousin, Marie of Cleves.
Her mother is his father's sister.
Marie is a great beauty, and supposedly King Henry III of France has plans to break up their marriage in order to marry her himself, but she dies of complications from childbirth before he could do so.
With Marie, Henri has one child: * Catherine (1574-1595), Marquise d'Isles Secondly, Henri marries his second cousin once removed, Charlotte Catherine de La Tremoille (1568-1629), daughter of Louis III de La Trémoille and granddaughter of Anne de Montmorency.
They have at least two children: * Eleanor (1587-1619), married in 1606 to Philip William, Prince of Orange * Henry II (1588-1646), Prince de Condé
