Paternal Family Tree: Capet
Louis "Le Grand Condé" Bourbon Condé II Prince Condé and Claire Clémence Maillé Brézé Princess Condé were married. She by marriage Princess Condé.
In 1609 [his father] Henry Bourbon Condé II Prince Condé [aged 20] and [his mother] Charlotte Marguerite Montmorency Princess Condé [aged 14] were married. She by marriage Princess Condé. A marriage arranged by Henry IV King France [aged 55] who wanted her for a mistress; the couple travelled to Brussels to avoid his attention. He the son of [his grandfather] Henri Bourbon Condé Prince Condé and [his grandmother] Charlotte Catherine Tremoille Princess Condé. They were fourth cousin once removed.
On 8th September 1621 Louis "Le Grand Condé" Bourbon Condé II Prince Condé was born to Henry Bourbon Condé II Prince Condé [aged 33] and Charlotte Marguerite Montmorency Princess Condé [aged 27].
In 1642 [his brother-in-law] Henri Valois II Duke Longueville [aged 46] and [his sister] Anne Geneviève Bourbon Condé Duchess Longueville [aged 23] were married. She by marriage Duchess Longueville. The difference in their ages was 23 years. He the son of Henri Valois I Duke Longueville and Catherine Gonzaga Duchess Longueville. They were third cousin once removed.
On 29th July 1643 [his son] Henri Jules Bourbon Condé Prince Condé was born to Louis "Le Grand Condé" Bourbon Condé II Prince Condé [aged 21] and Claire Clémence Maillé Brézé Princess Condé. He married his fifth cousin once removed Anne Henriette Palatinate Simmern and had issue.
On 26th December 1646 [his father] Henry Bourbon Condé II Prince Condé [aged 58] died. His son Louis [aged 25] succeeded II Prince Condé.
Memoirs of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Cardinal de Retz Book 1. On the 9th of February the Prince de Conde [aged 27] attacked and took Charenton. All this time the country people were flocking to Paris with provisions, not only because there was plenty of money, but to enable the citizens to hold out against the siege, which was begun on the 9th of January.
John Evelyn's Diary. 16th February 1649. Paris [Map] being now strictly besieged by the Prince de Condé [aged 27], my wife [aged 14] being shut up with her father [aged 44] and mother [aged 39], I wrote a letter of consolation to her: and, on the 22d, having recommended Obadiah Walker [aged 33], a learned and most ingenious person, to be tutor to, and travel with, Mr. Hillyard's two sons, returned to Sayes Court, Deptford [Map].
John Evelyn's Diary. 7th September 1649. Went with my wife [aged 14] and dear Cousin to St. Germains, and kissed the Queen-Mother's [aged 39] hand; dined with my Lord Keeper and Lord Hatton [aged 44]. Divers of the great men of France came to see the King [aged 19]. The next day, came the Prince of Condé [aged 27]. Returning to Paris, we went to see the President Maison's palace, built castle-wise, of a milk-white fine freestone; the house not vast, but well contrived, especially the staircase, and the ornaments of Putti, about it. It is environed in a dry moat, the offices under ground, the gardens very excellent with extraordinary long walks, set with elms, and a noble prospect toward the forest, and on the Seine toward Paris. Take it altogether, the meadows, walks, river, forest, corn-ground, and vineyards, I hardly saw anything in Italy to exceed it. The iron gates are very magnificent. He has pulled down a whole village to make room for his pleasure about it.
John Evelyn's Diary. 13th September 1649. The King [aged 19] invited the Prince of Condé [aged 28] to supper at St. Cloud; there I kissed the Duke of York's [aged 15] hand in the tennis court, where I saw a famous match between Monsieur Saumeurs and Colonel Cooke, and so returned to Paris. It was noised about that I was knighted, a dignity I often declined.
John Evelyn's Diary. 18th January 1650. This night was the Prince of Condé [aged 28] and his brother [aged 20] carried prisoners to the Bois de Vincennes.
On 2nd December 1650 [his mother] Charlotte Marguerite Montmorency Princess Condé [aged 56] died.
Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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On 20th September 1652 [his son] Louis Bourbon Condé was born to Louis "Le Grand Condé" Bourbon Condé II Prince Condé [aged 31] and Claire Clémence Maillé Brézé Princess Condé. He died aged less than one years old.
On 11th April 1653 [his son] Louis Bourbon Condé died.
In 1657 [his daughter] Unamed Bourbon Condé was born to Louis "Le Grand Condé" Bourbon Condé II Prince Condé [aged 35] and Claire Clémence Maillé Brézé Princess Condé. She died aged three in 1660.
On 28th September 1660 [his daughter] Unamed Bourbon Condé [aged 3] died.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 2nd July 1663. Walking in the garden this evening with Sir G. Carteret [aged 53] and Sir J. Minnes [aged 64], Sir G. Carteret told us with great contempt how like a stage-player my Lord Digby [aged 50] spoke yesterday, pointing to his head as my Lord did, and saying, "First, for his head", says Sir G. Carteret, "I know what a calf's head would have done better by half for his heart and his sword, I have nothing to say to them". He told us that for certain his head cost the late King his, for it was he that broke off the treaty at Uxbridge. He told us also how great a man he was raised from a private gentleman in France by Monsieur Grandmont1, and afterwards by the Cardinall, [Mazarin] who raised him to be a Lieutenant-generall, and then higher; and entrusted by the Cardinall, when he was banished out of France, with great matters, and recommended by him to the Queen [aged 61] as a man to be trusted and ruled by: yet when he came to have some power over the Queen, he begun to dissuade her from her opinion of the Cardinal; which she said nothing to till the Cardinal was returned, and then she told him of it; who told my Lord Digby, "Eh bien, Monsieur, vous estes un fort bon amy donc2" but presently put him out of all; and then he was, from a certainty of coming in two or three years' time to be Mareschall of France (to which all strangers, even Protestants, and those as often as French themselves, are capable of coming, though it be one of the greatest places in France), he was driven to go out of France into Flanders; but there was not trusted, nor received any kindness from the Prince of Conde [aged 41], as one to whom also he had been false, as he had been to the Cardinal and Grandmont. In fine, he told us how he is a man of excellent parts, but of no great faith nor judgment, and one very easy to get up to great height of preferment, but never able to hold it.
Note 1. Antoine, Duc de Gramont, marshal of France, who died July 12th, 1678, aged seventy-four. His memoirs have been published.
Note 2. Ah well sir, you are a very good friend, therefore.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 4th June 1664. He tells me above all of the Duke of Yorke [aged 30], that he is more himself and more of judgement is at hand in him in the middle of a desperate service, than at other times, as appeared in the business of Dunkirke, wherein no man ever did braver things, or was in hotter service in the close of that day, being surrounded with enemies; and then, contrary to the advice of all about him, his counsel carried himself and the rest through them safe, by advising that he might make his passage with but a dozen with him; "For", says he, "the enemy cannot move after me so fast with a great body, and with a small one we shall be enough to deal with them"; and though he is a man naturally martiall to the highest degree, yet a man that never in his life talks one word of himself or service of his owne, but only that he saw such or such a thing, and lays it down for a maxime that a Hector can have no courage. He told me also, as a great instance of some men, that the Prince of Condo's [aged 42] excellence is, that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civill, and to command in words of great obligation to his officers and men; but without any the least disturbance in his judgment or spirit.
In 1679 [his sister] Anne Geneviève Bourbon Condé Duchess Longueville [aged 60] died.
On 11th December 1686 Louis "Le Grand Condé" Bourbon Condé II Prince Condé [aged 65] died. His son Henri [aged 43] succeeded Prince Condé.
Memoirs of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Cardinal de Retz Book 1. The Prince de Conde was enraged at the declaration published by the [his brother] Prince de Conti and M. de Longueville, which cast the Court, then at Saint Germain, into such a despair that the Cardinal was upon the point of retiring. I was abused there without mercy, as appeared by a letter sent to Madame de Longueville from the Princess, her mother, in which I read this sentence: "They rail here plentifully against the Coadjutor, whom yet I cannot forbear thanking for what he has done for the poor Queen of England." This circumstance is very curious. You must know that a few days before the King left Paris I visited the Queen of England, whom I found in the apartment of her daughter, since Madame d'Orléans. "You see, monsieur," said the Queen, "I come here to keep Henriette company; the poor child has lain in bed all day for want of a fire." The truth is, the Cardinal having stopped the Queen's pension six months, tradesmen were unwilling to give her credit, and there was not a chip of wood in the house. You may be sure I took care that a Princess of Great Britain should not be confined to her bed next day, for want of a fagot; and a few days after I exaggerated the scandal of this desertion, and the Parliament sent the Queen a present of 40,000 livres. Posterity will hardly believe that the Queen of England, granddaughter of Henri the Great, wanted a fagot to light a fire in the month of January, in the Louvre, and at the Court of France. Note. daughter of Henry IV King France if he is referring to Henrietta Queen Consort of England.
There are many passages in history less monstrous than this which make us shudder, and this mean action of the Court made so little impression upon the minds of the generality of the people at that time that I have reflected a thousand times since that we are far more moved at the hearing of old stories than of those of the present time; we are not shocked at what we see with our own eyes, and I question whether our surprise would be as great as we imagine at the story of Caligula's promoting his horse to the dignity of a consul were he and his horse now living.
Kings Wessex: Great x 17 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Godwinson: Great x 16 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 9 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Malcolm III of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 7 Grand Son of King John "The Good" II of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 21 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 12 Grand Son of Alfonso II King Aragon
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Bourbon VIII Count Vendôme
4 x Great Grandson of King Louis IX of France
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Bourbon Count Vendôme and Soissons
5 x Great Grandson of King Louis IX of France
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabelle Beauvau Countess Vendôme
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Bourbon Duke Vendôme
4 x Great Grandson of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 4 Grandfather: Peter Luxembourg II Count Saint Pol and Soissons
3 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Marie Luxembourg Countess Vendôme and Soissons
3 x Great Granddaughter of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Savoy Countess Saint Pol 2 x Great Granddaughter of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 1 Grandfather: Louis Bourbon Prince Condé
5 x Great Grandson of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Valois II Duke Alençon
2 x Great Grandson of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 3 Grandfather: Rene Valois Duke Alençon
3 x Great Grandson of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 4 Grandmother: Marie Armagnac Duchess Alençon 2 x Great Granddaughter of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 2 Grandmother: Françoise Valois Countess Vendôme
4 x Great Granddaughter of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 4 Grandfather: Frederick Lorraine Count Vaudémont 5 x Great Grandson of King Philip III of France
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Lorraine Duchess Alençon 3 x Great Granddaughter of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 4 Grandmother: Yolande Valois Anjou
2 x Great Granddaughter of King John "The Good" II of France
Grandfather: Henri Bourbon Condé Prince Condé
6 x Great Grandson of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 1 Grandmother: Eléanor de Roucy de Roye Princess Condé
Father: Henry Bourbon Condé II Prince Condé
7 x Great Grandson of King John "The Good" II of France
Grandmother: Charlotte Catherine Tremoille Princess Condé
Louis "Le Grand Condé" Bourbon Condé II Prince Condé
7 x Great Grandson of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 4 Grandfather: Jacques de Montmorency
Great x 3 Grandfather: Jean II de Montmorency
Great x 2 Grandfather: William de Montmorency
Great x 1 Grandfather: Anne I Duke of Montmorency
Grandfather: Henri I de Montmorency 5 x Great Grandson of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 4 Grandfather: Louis Savoy I Count Savoy Great Grandson of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 3 Grandfather: Philip "Landless" Savoy II Duke Savoy 2 x Great Grandson of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Cyprus Countess Savoy
Great x 2 Grandfather: René of Savoy 3 x Great Grandson of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 3 Grandmother: Libera Portoneri
Great x 1 Grandmother: Madeleine of Savoy 4 x Great Granddaughter of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Lascaris
Mother: Charlotte Marguerite Montmorency Princess Condé 6 x Great Granddaughter of King John "The Good" II of France