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    François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (16 January 1616 – 25 June 1669) was the son of César, Duke of Vendôme, and Françoise de Lorraine. He was a prominent...
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    of Bourbon-Vendome. He held the titles of 1st Duke of Vendôme, 2nd Duke of Beaufort and 2nd Duke of Étampes, but is also simply known as César de Vendôme...
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    She could have married the duc du Maine in 1692, but Maine preferred Marie Anne's sister, Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, and married her instead. The...
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    Duchesse de Beaufort, a peeress of France. Henry IV also recognized and legitimized two more children he had with Gabrielle: Catherine-Henriette de Bourbon, a...
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    Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (8 September 1621 – 11 December 1686), known as le Grand Condé (French for 'the Great Condé'), was a French military...
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    quality of French generals such as Condé's famous pupil, François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg. He triumphed at the Battles of Fleurus...
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  • Montpensier (1542–1592) François de Bourbon, prince de Conti (1558–1614) François de Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort (1616–1669) François Louis, Prince of Conti...
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    (1651–1651) Charles Amadeus was killed by his brother-in-law, François de Bourbon, Duke of Beaufort in a duel in 1652. He was buried at the Notre Dame d'Annecy[citation...
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    of the marshal, was created Duc de Beaufort in 1688 and Duke of Montmorency in 1689. In 1767 the title of Duke of Beaufort-Montmorency passed by marriage...
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    d'Auvergne estate, including the duc de Bourbon, the duc de La Tremoille, the princesse de Bourbon-Condé and the princesse de Poix. All were related to the...
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    present duc d'Uzès and duc de Luynes descend from him. Louis César was the son of Charles François de La Baume Le Blanc, marquis and then duc de La Vallière...
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    François succeeded his father as Count of Nevers and Eu. In 1538, Nevers married Marguerite of Bourbon-La Marche (1516–1589), daughter of Charles de Bourbon...
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    Henriette Louise de Bourbon; Charlotte de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1660 – 18 April 1729) married Henri, Duke of Elbeuf (son of Charles III, duc d'Elbeuf and...
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    Mazarin, and François de Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort. The last of his family in the male line was Louis XIV's famous general, Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme (1645–1712)...
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    Margaret of Bourbon, the elder sister of Antoine de Bourbon. She was the first cousin of Henry III of Navarre, the sister-in-law of Henry of Bourbon, Prince...
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    (through the rights of the wife). Jacques de Clèves was the son of François de Clèves and Marguerite de Bourbon. François was one of the richest nobles in France...
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  • duchess-peeress of Beaufort (1597–1598) César de Bourbon-Vendôme (1594–1665), duke-peer of Beaufort (1598–1649) and of Vendôme François de Bourbon-Vendôme (1616–1669)...
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    Artist : Théophile-François Marcel Bra (1797–1863). Jean-Baptiste Bessières, duc d'Istries, maréchal de l'Empire (1768–1813). Artist : François Masson (1745–1807)...
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    000 livres." La Roque 1891, p. 250 Setton 1991, p. 224. "François de Bourbon, duke de Beaufort, left Toulon with the transports on 5 June (1669)." Petigny...
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    Henri de Valois, duc d'Angoulême (1551 – 2 June 1586, in Aix-en-Provence), sometimes called "Henri, bâtard de Valois" or "Henri de France", was a Légitimé...
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    As Talleyrand noted, "The Duc de Chartres found her charming, told her this, and was quickly listened to, for Madame de Genlis, to avoid the scandal...
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    a 1643 conspiracy known as the 'cabale des Importants'. Led by the duc de Beaufort, it was the latest in a series of similar plots, driven by the feudal...
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    Furniture History, 42 (2006), 1-25. Louis, duc de La Trémoille, Les La Trémoille pendant cinq siècles: Charles, François et Louis III (Paris, 1894), pp. 28–29...
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    Madame de Pompadour of François Bigot. Landry, Peter (2013). "Francois Bigot". Biographies. Bosher, J. F.; Dubé, J.-C. (1979). "Bigot, François (d. 1778)"...
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    Paris. François de Bourbon, prince de Conti. François de Bourbon, prince dauphin d'Auvergne, duc de Saint-Fargeau, then of Montpensier, pair de France...
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    the RN under the same name, BU 1768 Duc de Bourgogne 80 (launched 20 October 1751 at Rochefort, designed by François-Guillaume Clarain Deslauriers) – renamed...
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    Battle of Cherchell on 24 August 1665 (as flagship of François de Bourbon-Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort) and in the Battle of Solebay on 7 June 1672 (as flagship...
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    Mary of Guise (redirect from Marie de Guise)
    born at Bar-le-Duc, Lorraine, the eldest daughter of Claude, Duke of Guise, head of the House of Guise, and his wife Antoinette of Bourbon, herself the...
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  • of France and his general superintendent of navigation, François de Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort, had decided that it was the time to act, as the English...
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    intended when first built to serve as the flagship of François de Bourbon-Vendome, Duc de Beaufort, for the Cretan campaign of 1669, she was not ready in...
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