Henri de Montmorency, 3rd Duke of Montmorency

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox noble Henri de Montmorency, 3rd Duke of 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.Template:Sfn

Biography

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Engraved portrait of Henri de Montmorency

Born on 15 June 1534, Henri was the son of Anne de MontmorencyTemplate:Sfn and Madeleine of Savoy. As Gouverneur, he led an army into Toulouse, campaigning 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.Template:Sfn They accused Henri of being betraying the city and being in league with Protestants like his cousin Admiral Coligny.Template:Sfn He responded by arresting four bourgeois and sending them to Paris with charges of slander.Template:Sfn Henri also placed a procureur-général on the Parlement of Toulouse who was suspected of Protestantism.Template:Sfn In October 1574 he joined with the Protestants of lower Languedoc, was deprived of his office by the Parlement of Toulouse, and arrests were made of his associates charged with conspiracy against the king.Template:Sfn In the midst of these arrests, Henri hanged one of his own captains on a suspicion of poisoning, believing that Henry III of France was trying to kill him.Template:Sfn

Henri became Duke of Montmorency on his brother François' death in 1579.Template:Sfn As a leader of the party called the Politiques he took a prominent part in the French Wars of Religion.Template:Sfn In 1593 Henri was made constable of France,Template:Sfn but Henry IV kept him away from Languedoc, owing to his nickname "King of Languedoc".Template:Sfn

Henri was purportedly a Grand Master of the Order of the Temple, according to the Charter of Larmenius.

Issue

Henri and his first wife, Antoinette de La Marck (1542–1591),Template:Sfn daughter of Robert IV de La Marck, had:Template:Sfn

• Charlotte de Montmorency (1571–1636), married in 1591 Charles de Valois, Duke of AngoulêmeTemplate:Sfn
• Marguerite de Montmorency (1577–1660), married in 1593, Anne de Lévis, Duke of VentadourTemplate:Sfn

Henri and his second wife, Louise de Budos (1575–1598),Template:Sfn had:

• Charlotte Marguerite de MontmorencyTemplate:Sfn
• Henri II de MontmorencyTemplate:Sfn

Montmorency also fathered a number of children out of wedlock.

Catherine Guillens de Castellet

• Splendian (1606–1645)
• Jules (? – +1578)

Unknown mother

• Annibal bâtard de Montmorency (?–
• Henri (?–
• Cesar (?–
• Marie (?–

Sources

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