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Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme
Louis de Bourbon-Vendôme, (2 January 1493, Ham, Picardy, France - 13 March 1557), son of Francis, Count of Vendôme and Marie of Luxembourg.
Life.
He was the third son of François de Bourbon and Marie de Luxembourg, Countess of St. Pol, he was raised largely in the castle of La Fere, where his mother had come to reside after being widowed. He was godfather to Louis de Bourbon, Prince de la Roche-sur-
Louis, Duke of Vendôme
Louis de Bourbon (October 1612 – 6 August 1669), was Duke of Mercœur and later the second Duke of Vendôme, and the grandson of Henry IV of France and Gabrielle d'Estrées. He became Duke of Vendôme in 1665, after the death of his father.
Biography.
Louis was the son of César de Bourbon, "Légitimé de France", Duke of Vendôme and Françoise de Lorraine (1592–1669), daughter of Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur (d. 1602).