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Henri III Julius de Bourbon d' Enghien

Male 1643 - 1709  (65 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Henri III Julius de Bourbon d' Enghien 
    Birth 29 Jul 1643 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1 Apr 1700-1709 
    Person ID I52730  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2000 

    Father Louis II Francois de Bourbon d' Enghien,   b. 1621   d. 1686 (Age 65 years) 
    Mother Claire Clemence de Maillé-Brezé de Fronsac,   b. 1628   d. 1694 (Age 66 years) 
    Marriage 1641 
    Family ID F21476  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Pfalzgräfin Anna Henriette Julie von der Pfalz-Simmern,   b. 13 Mar 1648, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Feb 1723, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Marie Therese de Bourbon-Condé,   b. 1 Feb 1666   d. 22 Feb 1732 (Age 66 years)
    +2. Duc Louis III de Bourbon-Condé,   b. 11 Oct 1668, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Mar 1710, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years)
    +3. Anne Louise Benedicte de Bourbon-Condé de Charolais,   b. 8 Nov 1676   d. 23 Jan 1753 (Age 76 years)
     4. Marie Anne de Bourbon-Condé de Montmorency,   b. 24 Feb 1678   d. 11 Apr 1718 (Age 40 years)
    Family ID F21482  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2000 

    Family 2 Françoise de Montalais   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Children 
    +1. Julie de Bourbon,   b. 1668   d. 10 Mar 1710, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 42 years)
    Family ID F239234  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Oct 2007 

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    • Prince d'Enghien
      He returned to France with his father after the signature of the treaty of the Pyrénées. He was anorexic, ugly, debauched and brutal, He was a notoriously deranged person. He ran after favours as much as possible. He stroked, caressed, crawled - even at the feet of the King to get some priviledge. He shared during the time of the Fronde, the adventurous life of his mother. Even though showing a lot of courage during the military campaigns of his father, it is not possible, becauseof his illness, to him give a command even though he held rank of lieutenant-general and afterwards fieldmarshal.
      Crazy Condé:
      A strange figure, and the most worrying. If the King had in the mind something else other than the rank of the husband in the marriage of his bastard daughters he would have hesitated to give his daughter to the son of such an infamous character. The man was crazy and his bouts of madness lengthened as he grew older. At Chantilly, bat wings grew in his mind. He covered his room with wood and the ceiling with thick fabric to protect himself from to bruising against the walls and floor when flying around. In his hotel at Versailles, he thought that a fairy had changed him into a plant and demanded his servants to water him. He beat them up if they didn't. When his mania took him over, there was no other way to control him other than to enter his game. His people knew it and they joined in to bring him back to reason.
      The feast with the dead:
      There was the time when Henri-Jules thought he was dead. He wondered if there was a need of food beyond the grave? The Prince fasted with application and no means to dissuade him could be found. If a trick hadn't been found, he would have died of hunger. Happily, two of his servants, Girard and Richard, imagined to cover themselves with cloths and to enter in disguise in the bedroom, the one under the name of the late Marshall of Luxembourg and the other under the one of his grand-father. After a conversation which went on the land of the dead they told him they had come to stay with him, they begged him to have dinner at the deceased Marshall of Turenne's place, where they intended to go. Surprise !. He thought, how was this possible? Does one eat once dead? Yes, of course, affirmed the accomplices and with good appetite. Pleased, because he had in fact great hunger, Henri-Jules followed his visitors into an under passage in the Hotel of Condé where he found... the Marshall of Turenne, covered in the same way of the hosts. The guests joined the table, ate gallantly and rejoiced, served by some other servants wrapped in white cloths. As long as that this queer mania lasted, people brought the Duke twice a day in the under passage, in order that he could take his meals with all the great deceased men he knew. In his house, people took all this for exhilaration and excessive activity. His wife, and ever a victim, hid her bruises under her hats. Her girls endured slave-like conditions, but shame and fear sealed their mouths. At court also, Henri-Jules out comings terrified more than they entertained. People lowered their eyes and tried to forget this small man skinny who barked like a dog in public. His neck tight and his mouth torn by effort, would be at the death of the Great Condé, his father, the first Prince of the blood of the Kingdom. Only in front of the King, does the poor man seem to behave; the majesty of the Master shines so much and forces respect, that it would command even to the devil. The Duke yelled like dog or wolf, according to the inspiration of the moment, but without a sound. The King greeted him with courtesy showing nothing in his attitude to tell that he noticed the pathetic game. Outside of this behaviour, the extravagances of the Prince knew no curbs. That the rascal Louis III was a son-in-law of His Majesty did not please Henri-Jules and he wove himself other ties. His daughters are almost dwarfs. So small that the duchess of Bourbon, their sister in law, called them the "dolls of the blood" So what? Once a Condé is there need for any incentive ?



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