Henri I de Montmorency
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Born | Chantilly | 15 June 1534
Died | 2 April 1614 La Grange-des-Prés | (aged 79)
Noble family | House of Montmorency |
Spouse(s) | Laurence de Montmorency |
Father | Anne de Montmorency |
Mother | Madeleine of Savoy |
Henri I de Montmorency (15 June 1534 in Chantilly, Oise – 2 April 1614), Marshal of France, and Constable of France, seigneur of Damville, served as Governor of Languedoc from 1563 to 1614.[1]
Biography[]
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As Gouverneur, Damville came as the head of an army into Toulouse for nine months in 1570 and was chastized by the capitouls for letting Catholic property fall into the hands of a passing Protestant army without taking action.[2] They accused him of being betraying the city and being in league with Protestants like his cousin Admiral Coligny.[2] Damville responded by arresting four bourgeois and sending them to Paris with charges of slander.[2] Damville also placed a procureur-général on the Parlement of Toulouse who was suspected of Protestantism.[2] When Damville went into revolt in October 1574 (aligning with the Protestants of lower Languedoc) he was deprived of his office by the Parlement of Toulouse, and arrests were made of his associates charged with conspiracy against the king.[2] In the midst of these arrests, Henry hanged one of his own captains on a suspicion of poisoning, believing that Henry III of France was trying to kill him.[3]
Henri became Duke of Montmorency on his brother François' death in 1579.
As a leader of the party called the Politiques he took a prominent part in the French Wars of Religion. In 1593 Henri was made constable of France, but Henry IV showed some anxiety to keep him away from Languedoc, which he ruled like a sovereign prince.
Issue[]
With his first wife, Antoinette de La Marck (1542-1591),[4] daughter of Robert IV de La Marck, he had two daughters:
- Charlotte de Montmorency (1571-1636), married in 1591 Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême[5]
- Marguerite de Montmorency (1577-1660), married in 1593 her cousin Anne de Lévis, Duke of Ventadour (died 1622); they were the paternal grandparents of Louis Charles de Lévis.
With his second wife, Louise de Budos (1575-1598),[6] they had:
References[]
- ^ Davies 2000, p. 812.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Davies 1979, p. 46.
- ^ Sidney 2012, p. 240.
- ^ Davies 2000, p. 813.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Barbier 2002, p. 489.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Diefendorf 2004, p. 257.
Sources[]
- Barbier, Jean Paul (2002). Ma bibliothèque Poétique (in French). Librairie Droz.
- Diefendorf, Barbara B. (2004). From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris. Oxford University Press.
- Davies, Joan (1979). "Persecution and Protestantism: Toulouse, 1562-1575". The Historical Journal. Cambridge University Press. 22 (1, March): 31–51. doi:10.1017/S0018246X00016666.
- Davies, Joan (2000). "The Secretariat of Henri I, Duc de Montmorency, 1563-1614". The English Historical Review. Oxford University Press. 115 ((Sept) 463): 812–842. doi:10.1093/ehr/115.463.812. JSTOR 580680.
- Sidney, Philip (2012). Kuin, Roger (ed.). The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney. 1. Oxford University Press.
- 1534 births
- 1614 deaths
- People from Chantilly, Oise
- Counts of Dammartin
- House of Montmorency
- Dukes of Montmorency
- Marshals of France
- French people of the French Wars of Religion
- Constables of France
- 16th-century peers of France
- 17th-century peers of France