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Henri I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville

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Portrait by Léonard Gaultier

Henry I of Orléans-Longueville (1568 – April 8, 1595) was a French aristocrat, military leader and Grand Chamberlain of France between 1589 and 1595.

Biography

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Henry was the eldest son of Léonor d'Orléans, duc de Longueville (1540–1573)[1] and Marie de Bourbon, duchess of Estouteville and countess of Saint-Pol (1539–1601).[2] He succeeded his father in 1573 as Duke of Longueville, Prince of Neuchâtel, Count of Saint-Pol, Count of Dunois and Tancarville. On 1 March 1588, he married Catherine Gonzaga (1568–1629), daughter of Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers,[3] and had one son, Henry II.[1]

Henry was governor of Picardie and defeated the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Aumale at Senlis in May 1589.[4] When Henry III was assassinated later that year, Longueville pledged loyalty to his successor Henry IV of France and received command over the forces in Picardy[5] and became Grand Chamberlain of France.[6]

Funerary monument of the heart of Henri I d'Orléans in the Louvre Museum, by François Anguier

Longueville died in Amiens in 1595.[7]

He was the loose inspiration behind the character of Longueville in William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost.[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b Ward, Prothero & Leathes 1911, p. xii.
  2. ^ Potter 2005, p. 133.
  3. ^ Boltanski 2006, p. 501.
  4. ^ Butler 1904, p. 47.
  5. ^ Johnson 2018, p. 398.
  6. ^ Spangler 2016, p. 162.
  7. ^ Balsamo 2002, p. 246.
  8. ^ Hibbard 1990, p. 49.

Sources

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  • Balsamo, Jean, ed. (2002). Les funérailles à la renaissance XIIe colloque international de la Société française d'étude du seizième siècle Bar-le Duc, 2-5 décembre 1999 (in French). Droz.
  • Boltanski, Ariane (2006). Les ducs de Nevers et l'État royal: genèse d'un compromis (ca 1550 - ca 1600) (in French). Librairie Droz.
  • Butler, A.J. (1904). "The Wars of Religion in France". In Ward, A.W.; Prothero, G.W.; Leathes, Stanley (eds.). The Cambridge Modern History. Vol. III. Cambridge at the University Press.
  • Hibbard, G.R., ed. (1990). Love's Labour's Lost. Oxford University Press.
  • Johnson, A.H. (2018). Europe in the Sixteenth Century 1494-1598: Period IV. Outlook Verlag.
  • Potter, David, ed. (2005). Foreign Intelligence and Information in Elizabethan England: Two Treatises on the State of France, 1580-1584. Cambridge University Press.
  • Spangler, Jonathan (2016). "Holders of the Keys: The Grand Chamberlain, the Grand Equerry and Monopolies of Access at the Early Modern French Court". In Raeymaekers, Dries; Derks, Sebastiaan (eds.). The Key to Power?: The Culture of Access in Princely Courts, 1400-1750. Brill. pp. 153–177.
  • Ward, A.W.; Prothero, G.W.; Leathes, Stanley, eds. (1911). The Cambridge Modern History. Vol. XIII. Cambridge at the University Press.
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Henri I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville
Cadet branch of the House of Valois
Born: 1568 Died: 8 April 1595
French nobility
Preceded by Duke of Longueville
7 August 1573 – 8 April 1595
Succeeded by
Regnal titles
Preceded by Prince of Neuchâtel
7 August 1573 – 8 April 1595
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