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{{Short description|Cadet branch of the House of Bourbon}}
{{Royal house|
| name = House of Bourbon-Condé
| coat of arms = [[File:Crown of a Prince of the Blood of France (variant).svg|110px]]<br/>[[File:Arms of Henri de Conde.svg|100px]]
| origin = [[Condé-en-Brie]], France
| parent house = [[House of Bourbon]]{{Efn|The Bourbons were, themselves, descended from the [[Capetian dynasty]]}}
| titles = Prince of Condé<br/>Prince of [[La Roche-sur-Yon]]<br/>[[Duke of Enghien]]<br/>[[Duke of Bourbon]]<br/>[[Duke of Montmorency]]<br/>Duke of Mercœur<br/>Marquis of Graville<br/>Count of La Marche<br/>Count of Pézenas<br/>Count of Alais<br/>Count of [[Clermont-Ferrand|Clermont]]<br/>''[[Prince du sang]]''
| founder = [[Louis I, Prince of Condé|Louis I de Bourbon, Prince of Condé]]
| founded= {{Start date|1557}}
| final_head = [[Louis Henri, Prince of Condé|Louis Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Condé]]
| dissolution = {{End date|1830}}
| properties = [[Château de Chantilly]]<br/>[[Château de Condé]]<br/>[[Château de Vallery]]<br/>[[Hôtel de Bourbon-Condé]]<br/>[[Hôtel de Condé]]<br/>[[Palais Bourbon]]
| cadet branches = [[Princes of Conti]]<br/>[[#House of Bourbon-Soissons|Counts of Soissons]]
}}

The '''Most Serene House of Bourbon-Condé''' ({{IPA|fr|buʁbɔ̃ kɔ̃de|pron}}), named after [[Condé-en-Brie]] (now in the [[Aisne]] {{lang|fr|département}}), was a French princely house and a [[cadet branch]] of the [[House of Bourbon]]. The name of the house was derived from the title of '''Prince of Condé''' (French: ''prince de Condé'') that was originally assumed around 1557 by the French Protestant leader [[Louis I, Prince of Condé|Louis de Bourbon]] (1530–1569),<ref>{{cite web| last = Velde| first = François| title = A list of French Princes and Principalities| work = Heraldica.org| url = http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/frprince.htm#list| access-date = 2008-07-06}}</ref> uncle of King [[Henry IV of France]], and borne by his male-line descendants.

This line became extinct in 1830 when his eighth-generation descendant, [[Louis Henri, Prince of Condé|Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon]], died without surviving male issue. The princely title was held for one last time by [[Louis d'Orléans, Prince of Condé]], who died in 1866.

==History==
The Princes of Condé descend from the [[List of counts and dukes of Vendôme|Vendôme]] family &ndash; the progenitors 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|Charles IV de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme]] (1489–1537), the [[lord]]ship of Condé-en-Brie in [[Champagne (region)|Champagne]], consisting of the [[Château of Condé]] and a dozen villages some fifty miles east of Paris.

It had passed from the [[sire]]s of Avesnes, to the Counts of [[Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise#1.1.3|St. Pol]]. When [[Marie de Luxembourg|Marie de Luxembourg-St. Pol]] wed [[François, Count of Vendôme]] (1470–1495) in 1487, Condé-en-Brie became part of the Bourbon-Vendôme [[Property|patrimony]].

===''Duc de Bourbon''===
After the extinction in 1527 of the [[Duke of Bourbon|Dukes of Bourbon]], François's son Charles (1489–1537) became head of the [[House of Bourbon]], which traces its male-line descent from [[Robert, Count of Clermont]] (1256&ndash;1318), a younger son of France's Saint-King [[Louis IX of France|Louis IX]]. Of the sons of Charles of Vendôme, the eldest, Antoine, became [[jure uxoris]] King of [[Navarre]] and fathered Henry IV.

[[File:Blason Louis Ier prince de Condé (1530 † 1569).svg|150px|thumb|Arms of the ''princes de Condé'', 1546-1588]]

The youngest son, Louis, inherited the lordships of [[Meaux]], [[Nogent-le-Rotrou|Nogent]], Condé, and [[Soissons]] as his [[appanage]]. Louis was titled Prince of Condé in a parliamentary document on 15 January 1557 and, without any legal authority beyond their dignity as princes of the [[Royal Family|Blood Royal]], they continued to bear it for the next three centuries.  He was succeeded by his son [[Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé]].

Louis, the first Prince, actually gave [[Château de Condé|the Condé property]] to his youngest son, [[Charles, Count of Soissons|Charles]] (1566–1612), Count of Soissons. Charles' only son [[Louis, Count of Soissons|Louis]] (1604–1641) left Condé and Soissons to female heirs in 1624, who married into the [[House of Savoy-Carignano|Savoy]] and [[House of Orléans-Longueville|Orléans-Longueville]] dynasties.

===''Monsieur le Prince''===
Upon the accession to France's throne of [[Henry IV of France|Henry IV]] of Bourbon in 1589, his first cousin-once-removed [[Henry II de Bourbon, prince de Condé|Henry, Prince of Condé]] (1588&ndash;1646), was [[heir presumptive]] to the crown until 1601. Although Henry's own descendants thereafter held the senior positions within the royal family of [[Dauphin of France|Dauphin]], [[Fils de France]], and [[Fils de France|Petits-Fils de France]], from 1589 to 1709 the Princes of Condé coincidentally held the rank at [[court]] of ''premier prince du sang royal'' (First Prince of the Blood Royal), to which was attached income, [[Order of precedence|precedence]], and ceremonial privilege (such as the exclusive right to be addressed as ''Monsieur le Prince'' at [[court]]).

[[File:Image-Blason duche fr Bourbon (moderne 2).svg|right|thumb|150px|Arms of the ''Princes de Condé'' and ''Ducs de Bourbon'', 1588-1830]]

[[File:FRA Enghien-les-Bains COA.svg|right|thumb|150px|Arms of the heir to the ''Prince de Condé'' and ''Duc de Bourbon'', 1588-1830, usually titled the ''Duc d'Enghien'']]

However, the position of ''premier prince du sang'' devolved upon the ''[[Duke of Orléans|ducs d'Orléans]]'' in 1710, so the seventh Prince, [[Louis, Prince of Condé (1668–1710)|Louis III (1668&ndash;1710)]] declined to make use of the title, preferring instead to be known by his hereditary [[peerage]] of Duke of Bourbon, which still afforded him the right to be known as ''Monsieur le Duc''. Subsequent heirs likewise preferred the ducal to the princely title.

===Later===
After the death of [[Henry III Jules de Bourbon, prince de Condé]] in 1709, the family were in regular attendance at court.  [[Louis III, Prince of Condé|Louis de Bourbon-Condé]] (at that point known as the ''Duke of Bourbon'') had in 1685 married [[Louise-Françoise de Bourbon]], the legitimated daughter of [[Louis XIV of France]] and [[Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan]].

The couple had many children and produced an heir to the Condé titles and lands. Their son was [[Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon|Louis Henri de Bourbon-Condé]], ''duc de Bourbon''.
He led a quiet life and was known at court as [[Prince du Sang|Monsieur le Duc]] after the loss of the rank of ''premier prince du sang'' in 1723. After his death the family retreated from court life but [[Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé]] was vital in the forming of the [[Army of Condé]] - formed to support his cousin [[Louis XVI]] during his imprisonment during the revolution. He was the longest holder of the title, being known as the prince de Condé for seventy-eight years.

His son married the sister of [[Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans|Louis Philippe II d'Orléans]] better known as '''Philippe Égalité'''. She was called [[Bathilde d'Orléans|Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde d'Orléans]]. She was the last princesse de Condé and mother of [[Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé]] - titled ''duc d'Enghien''. He was executed by [[Napoleon I of France]] at the [[Château de Vincennes]]. With the death of the [[Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé|duc d'Enghien]], the heir to the Condé name, his father was the last holder of the title.

After his death in 1830 the Condé lands passed to the last prince's cousin [[Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale|Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale]] whose eldest son [[Louis d'Orléans, Prince of Condé|Louis]] was later a ''prince de Condé'' after gaining the title from his father.<ref name=Barko>{{cite journal |url=http://www.msp.unimelb.edu.au/index.php/explorations/article/view/207/187 |title='Le petit Condé: the death in Sydney in 1866 of Australia's first royal visitor |first=Ivan |last=Barko |journal=Explorations - Journal of French-Australian Connections |issue=35 |date=December 2003 |pages=26–32 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424023612/http://www.msp.unimelb.edu.au/index.php/explorations/article/view/207/187 |archive-date=2013-04-24 }}</ref>

== Simplified Bourbon family tree ==
{{:Bourbon family tree}}

==Cadet branches==
[[File:Blason Armand, prince de Conti (1626 † 1666).svg|thumb|right|150px|Arms of the Counts of Soissons (1569-1641); at the extinction of their line, it was adopted by the [[Princes of Conti]] until they became extinct in 1814.]]

===House of Bourbon-Conti===

The ''House of Bourbon-Conti'' was formed in 1581 by [[François de Bourbon, prince de Conti]]. He was the son of [[Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé]]. The house became extinct in 1814 upon the death of [[Louis François II de Bourbon, prince de Conti]].

The [[Princes of Conti]] were as follows:
* 1558&ndash;1614: marquis, then from 1581 onwards 1st prince [[François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti|François de Bourbon]].

''At his death, the title became extinct because the prince died without issue. The title was assumed in 1629 by:''

* 1629&ndash;1666: 2nd prince [[Armand, Prince of Conti|Armand de Bourbon-Conti]]
* 1666&ndash;1685: 3rd prince [[Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti|Louis Armand I de Bourbon-Conti]]
* 1685&ndash;1709: 4th prince [[François Louis, Prince of Conti|Francis Louis de Bourbon-Conti]]
* 1709&ndash;1727: 5th prince [[Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti|Louis Armand II de Bourbon-Conti]]
* 1727&ndash;1776: 6th prince [[Louis François I, Prince of Conti|Louis Francis I de Bourbon-Conti]]
* 1776&ndash;1814: 7th prince [[Louis François II, Prince of Conti|Louis Francis II de Bourbon-Conti]]

===House of Bourbon-Soissons===

The first [[François de Bourbon, prince de Conti|prince de Conti]] was also the brother of the founder of the ''House of Bourbon-Soissons'', [[Charles de Bourbon, comte de Soissons|Charles de Bourbon-Soissons]]. The comtes de Soissons were addressed at court as ''[[Prince du Sang|Monsieur le Comte]]'' and their wives as ''Madame la Comtesse''. The members of the house were:

* 1487–1495: [[François, Count of Vendôme|François de Bourbon-Vendôme]] (1470–1495);
* 1495–1537: [[Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme|Charles de Bourbon-Vendôme]] (1489–1537), comte (''[[jure matris]]''), son of the preceding;
* 1547–1557: Jean de Bourbon-Soissons  (1528–1557), son of the preceding;
* 1557–1569: [[Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé]] (1535–1569), brother of the preceding;
* 1569–1612: [[Charles de Bourbon, comte de Soissons]]  (1566–1612), son of the preceding;
* 1612–1641: [[Louis de Bourbon, comte de Soissons]] (1604–1641), son of the preceding;
* 1641–1656: Marie de Bourbon-Soissons (1606–1692), sister of the preceding.

The line started in 1566 when the title of [[Count of Soissons]] was given to [[Charles de Bourbon, comte de Soissons|Charles de Bourbon-Condé]], the second son of [[Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé]], the first Prince of Condé. The Soissons title had been acquired by the first Prince of Condé in 1557 and was held by his descendants for two more generations with Charles de Bourbon-Condé, 1st comte de Soissons, and Louis de Bourbon-Condé, 2nd comte de Soissons.

The 2nd comte de Soissons died without an heir, so the Soissons estates passed to his younger sister, Marie de Bourbon-Condé, the wife of [[Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano]], a younger brother of the sovereign [[Duke of Savoy]]. Although she received 400,000 livres in annual revenues from the Soissons estates, lived in the [[Hôtel de Soissons]] where, according to [[Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon|Saint-Simon]], she "maintained the traditions of the Soissons", she continued to be known as the princesse de Carignan.<ref>{{cite book|last= Spanheim|first= Ézéchiel|author-link=Ezekiel, Freiherr von Spanheim|editor=Emile Bourgeois|title= Relation de la Cour de France|url= https://archive.org/details/relationdelacou00spangoog|series= le Temps retrouvé|year = 1973|publisher=Mercure de France|location= Paris|language= fr|pages= [https://archive.org/details/relationdelacou00spangoog/page/n119 99]–100, 107, 323, 329}}</ref> On her death, the Soissons countship passed first to her second son, Prince Joseph-Emmanuel of Savoy-Carignano (1631–1656), and then to her third son, [[Prince Eugène-Maurice of Savoy-Carignano]]. He married [[Olympia Mancini]], niece of [[Cardinal Mazarin]]. She was known as ''Madame la Comtesse de Soissons''.<ref>[[Nancy Mitford]], ''The Sun King'', 1966, p.87</ref> On his death, the title went to his eldest son, [[Prince Louis Thomas of Savoy-Carignano]], who was the older brother of the famous Austrian general, [[Prince Eugene of Savoy]]. The Soissons countship became extinct upon the death of Prince Eugène-Jean-François of Savoy-Carignano in 1734.

==Princes of Condé==
===First creation: 1546&ndash;1830 – [[House of Bourbon]]===
{| style="text-align:center; width:100%" class="wikitable"
! width=22% | Name !! width=105px | Portrait !! Lifespan !! width=25% | Parents
|-
| '''[[Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé|Louis I de Bourbon]]'''<br/>1546&ndash;1569
|| [[Image:Louis prince de Condé.jpg|100px]]
|| May 7, 1530 –<br/>March 13, 1569
|| [[Charles of Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme|Charles de Bourbon-La Marche]]<br/>[[Françoise of Alençon|Françoise d'Alençon]]
|-
| '''[[Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé|Henri I de Bourbon]]'''<br/>1569&ndash;1588
|| [[File:Henri Ier prince de Condé.jpg|100px]]
|| December 29, 1552 –<br/>March 5, 1588
|| [[Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé|Louis I de Bourbon]]<br/>[[Eléanor de Roucy de Roye]]
|-
| '''[[Henry II de Bourbon, prince de Condé|Henry II de Bourbon]]'''<br/>1588&ndash;1646
|| [[File:HenriIIdeBourbon-Conde.jpg|100px]]
|| September 1, 1588 –<br/>December 26, 1646
|| [[Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé|Henri I de Bourbon]]<br/>[[Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille]]
|-
| '''[[Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé|Louis II de Bourbon]]'''<br/>1646&ndash;1686
|| [[Image:Full length Portrait of Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, "Grand Condé" (1621-1686).jpg|100px]]
|| September 8, 1621 –<br/>November 11, 1686
|| [[Henry II de Bourbon, prince de Condé|Henry II de Bourbon]]<br/>[[Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency]]
|-
| '''[[Henri Jules, Prince of Condé|Henri Jules de Bourbon]]'''<br/>1686&ndash;1709
|| [[File:Henri Jules de Bourbon, cinquième prince de Condé, jeune homme, d'après Claude Lefebvre.png|100px]]
|| July 29, 1643 –<br/>April 1, 1709
|| [[Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé|Louis II de Bourbon]]<br/>[[Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé]]
|-
| '''[[Louis III, Prince of Condé|Louis III de Bourbon]]'''<br/>1709&ndash;1710
|| [[Image:1694 Portrait of Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé from the workshop of Rigaud (Versailles).jpg|100px]]
|| November 10, 1668 –<br/>March 4, 1710
|| [[Henri Jules, Prince of Condé|Henri Jules de Bourbon]]<br/>[[Anne Henriette of Bavaria]]
|-
| '''[[Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon|Louis Henri de Bourbon]]'''<br/>1710&ndash;1740
|| [[Image:Undated portrait painting of Louis Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon (1692-1740) wearing armour and the sash of the Order of the Holy Spirit by an unknown artist.jpg|100px]]
|| August 18, 1692 –<br/>January 27, 1740
|| [[Louis III, Prince of Condé|Louis III de Bourbon]]<br/>[[Louise-Françoise de Bourbon]]
|-
| '''[[Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé|Louis Joseph de Bourbon]]'''<br/>1740&ndash;1818
|| [[File:Louis Joseph de Bourbon Prince of Conde.jpg|100px]]
|| August 9, 1736 –<br/>May 13, 1818
|| [[Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon|Louis Henri de Bourbon]]<br/>[[Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg]]
|-
| '''[[Louis Henry II, Prince of Condé|Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon]]'''<br/>1818&ndash;1830
|| [[Image:Condé, Louis VI Henri de - 2.jpg|100px]]
|| April 13, 1756 –<br/>August 30, 1830
|| [[Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé|Louis Joseph de Bourbon]]<br/> [[Charlotte Élisabeth Godefride de Rohan]]<br/><small>daughter of [[Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise|Charles de Rohan]]</small>
|}

===Second creation: 1845 &ndash;1866 – [[House of Orléans]]===
{| style="text-align:center; width:100%" class="wikitable"
! width=22% | Name !! width=105px | Portrait !! Lifespan !! width=25% | Parents
|-
| '''[[Louis d'Orléans, Prince of Condé|Louis d'Orléans]]'''
|| [[File:Louis d'Orléans, Prince of Condé in an anonymous photo in circa 1863.png|100px]]
|| November 15, 1845 –<br/>May 24, 1866
|| [[Henri d'Orleans, Duke of Aumale]]<br/>[[Princess Maria Carolina Augusta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies]]
|}

==Styles of address==
The eldest sons of the Princes of Condé used the title of [[Duke of Enghien]] and were addressed as ''Monsieur le Duc'' until that style came to be pre-empted by their fathers, as Dukes of Bourbon, after 1709. The Princes of Condé were also the male-line ancestors of the branches of the [[Princes of Conti]] (which flourished 1629&ndash;1814) and the [[Charles de Bourbon, comte de Soissons|Counts of Soissons]] (1566&ndash;1641).

Although both the sons and daughters of these branches of the [[House of Bourbon]] held the [[Ranks of nobility and peerage|rank]] of ''[[Prince du sang|princes et princesses du sang]]'', it never became the custom in France for them to use prince or princess as a prefix to their Christian names. Rather, sons took a title of French nobility (count or duke), suffixed with their [[appanage]] (e.g. Count of Charolais), while unmarried daughters used one of their fathers' subsidiary properties to form a courtesy style (e.g. Mademoiselle de Clermont).

==Family residences==
[[Image:Chantilly - Le château du XVIIIe.jpg|thumb|320px|left|The [[Château de Chantilly]] at the time of the Grand Condé]]
The [[Hôtel de Condé]] became the Parisian base of the Condé family in 1610, in what is now the 6th district of Paris. In 1722, [[Louise-Françoise de Bourbon]], wife of [[Louis III, Prince of Condé]], started building the [[Palais Bourbon]], which in 1764 became the Condé family's main Parisian residence. They sold the Hôtel de Condé to the King in 1770, and it was demolished around 1780 to be replaced by a new neighborhood around the theater that later became known as the [[Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe|Odéon]]. Another Parisian property, still known as the [[Hôtel de Bourbon-Condé]] (12 rue Monsieur), was built and inhabited between 1780 and 1789 by [[Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon (1757–1824)|Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon-Condé]]. 

The family had several residences outside Paris – the [[Château de Condé]] in [[Condé-en-Brie]], [[Picardy]], which they ceased to own by 1624; the [[Château de Vallery]], built from 1548 for the [[Jacques d'Albon, Seigneur de Saint André|Marshal of Saint André]], acquired by [[Louis, Prince of Condé (1530–1569)|Louis I de Bourbon-Condé]] in 1564 and kept by the family until 1747; and the [[Château de Chantilly]], previously a [[House of Montmorency|Montmorency]] property from 1484 to 1632 and a Condé estate afterward. The latter was the home of the [[Grand Condé]] during his exile from court, and the host château of a party given in honour of King [[Louis XIV of France]] in 1671. It was confiscated during the [[French Revolution]] and eventually came into the possession of King [[Louis Philippe of France]], who gave it to his youngest son, [[Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale]].

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