Note 9 — Book I. LETTERS TO MAXIMILIAN.
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Henry of Navarre is generally spoken of in these letters as the Duke of Vendôme, or at most, the titular King of Navarre. The greater part of the kingdom had been seized by Ferdinand the Catholic in 1515, and has ever since been held by the Kings of Spain. Henry’s power was derived from his position as a great French noble, the first Prince of the blood after the King’s brother, and from his vast possessions in France, and not from the fragment of Navarre from which he derived his title. Subjoined is a short sketch of his family:—
Charles de Bourbon, Duc de Vendôme, descended from the sixth son of Louis IX.
│(Saint Louis)
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Anthony, Duc de Vendôme= Jeanne d’Albret, │ Queen of Navarre │ │ │ Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, killed at Jarnac, 1569 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, set up as King by the League after Henry III.’s death under the title of Charles X.
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Henry Duc de Vendôme afterwards Henry IV. Catherine = Henri, Duc de Bar, eldest son of the Duke of Lorraine
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Henri, born 1552, Prince de Condé. François, Prince de Conti, born 1558. Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, born 1562. Several other children.