The The Most Serene House of Condé (named after Condé-en-Brie, now in the Aisne département) is a historical French house which was named after the title Prince of Condé. Originally assumed circa 1557 by the French Protestant leader, Louis de Bourbon (1530-1569), uncle of King Henry IV of France, and borne by his male line descendants. It became extinct when his eighth generation descendant Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon died without surviving mal...
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The The Most Serene House of Condé (named after Condé-en-Brie, now in the Aisne département) is a historical French house which was named after the title Prince of Condé. Originally assumed circa 1557 by the French Protestant leader, Louis de Bourbon (1530-1569), uncle of King Henry IV of France, and borne by his male line descendants. It became extinct when his eighth generation descendant Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon died without surviving male issue. See List of Princesses of Condé also for a list of consorts.
The Princes of Condé descend from the Vendôme family - the fathers of the modern House of Bourbon. There was never a principality, sovereign or vassal, of Condé. The name merely served as the territorial source of a title adopted by Louis, who inherited from his father, Charles IV de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (1489-1537), the lordship of Condé-en-Brie in Champagne, consisting of the Château of Condé and a dozen villages some fifty miles east of Paris.
It had passed from the...
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