Henri II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville

Henri II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville

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Henri II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville or Henri de Valois-Longueville (6 April 1595 — 11 May 1663), a legitimated prince of France (of royal descent) and peer of France, was a major figure in the civil war of France, the Fronde,[1] and served as governor of Picardy, then of Normandy.

Longueville headed the French delegation in the talks that led to the Treaty of Westphalia which ended the Thirty Years War (1648). In his role as sovereign prince of Neuchâtel, and acting as antagonist of the Habsburg power rather than as liberal benefactor, he succeeded in obtaining the formal exemption from the Holy Roman Empire for all cantons and associates of the Swiss Confederacy.

His brother-in-law was Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, leader of the aristocratic party in the Fronde. After the Peace of Rueil (11 March 1649,) had ended the first phase of the civil war, Mazarin's sudden arrest of the Grand Condé, his brother the prince de Conti and their brother-in-law the duc de Longueville, January 14, 1650, precipitated the next phase of the Fronde, the Fronde des nobles.

He appointed Dominique Bouhours as tutor to his two sons.

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Henri II d’Orléans, duke de Longueville

born , April 27, 1595

died May 11, 1663

noted rebel in the French civil wars of the Fronde, whose second wife was the celebrated Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, Duchess de Longueville.

After taking part in the conspiracy against Cardinal de Richelieu in 1626, Longueville distinguished himself in the wars in Italy and Germany. His first wife, Louise de Bourbon-Soissons, having died in 1637, he then married in 1642 Anne-Geneviève of the princely house of Condé, who eventually drew him into the intrigues of the Fronde. By 1648 his campaigns had made him virtually sovereign in Normandy. Back in Paris early in 1649, he engaged in renewed rebellions later that year and was arrested (Jan. 18, 1650), along with the princes Condé and Conti. Freed, he became irritated by the pride of Condé and the adulteries of his wife and quit the rebel cause. He spent the rest of his life governing Normandy.

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Henri II d'Orléans, Duc de Longueville (1)

M, #412210, b. 1596, d. 1663

Last Edited=28 Dec 2009

Henri II d'Orléans, Duc de Longueville was born in 1596. (1) He married Anne Genevieve de Bourbon-Condé, Duchesse de Longueville, daughter of Henri II de Bourbon-Condé, Prince de Condé and Charlotte de Montmorency, on 2 June 1642. (1) He died in 1663. (1)

Henri II d'Orléans, Duc de Longueville gained the title of Duc de Longueville.
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