CONDÉ (HENRI DE BOURBON, PRINCE OF). Letter... - Lot 14 - Osenat

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CONDÉ (HENRI DE BOURBON, PRINCE OF). Letter... - Lot 14 - Osenat
CONDÉ (HENRI DE BOURBON, PRINCE OF). Letter signed "Henry de bourbon" with 6 autographed words, addressed to Jean-Casimir du Palatinat. Montreal [northeast of Avallon, in the present-day department of Yonne], June 28, 1576. 1 p. folio, address on back with remnant of red wax armorial seal; splits due to the letter's closing system, marginal tab marks with restoration. "Monsieur mon cousin, the sr. de Rany has his houses in these districts and doubts if your troops in approaching would come to lodge and forage there, and, inasmuch as I have always been very fond of him in my place, I have kindly asked you to make this p[rese]nte in his favor and to beg you very affectionately to gratify him with your safeguard for his houses.... assuring you, Monsieur mon cousin, that he will do you a service as a reward if the opportunity arises, and, for my part, I will consider the favor he will receive from you in this as if it were for one of my houses... ". Could the "sr de Rany" be François de La Magdelaine, lord of Ragny, a castle located near Savigny-en-Terre-Plaine, 6 km from Montreal, knowing that this character was a convinced Catholic faithful to Henri III? LEADER OF THE PROTESTANT PARTY AND COUSIN OF THE FUTURE HENRI IV, THE PRINCE OF CONDE Henri de Bourbon (1552-1588) fought with him during the third war of religion. He had to recant under duress after St. Bartholomew's Day, but went to the Holy Roman Empire to seek support for the Protestant cause: there he obtained the help of the Count Palatine of the Rhine, in 1576, during the fifth religious war. The Prince of Conde provoked the seventh war by seizing La Fère in 1579, and entered into a rivalry with his cousin for the leadership of the Protestant party, but nevertheless showed himself an active ally in the war of the League. He died so suddenly that it was thought to be by poisoning. A GERMAN PRINCE ALLIED WITH THE FRENCH PROTESTANTS, JEAN-CASIMIR was a Calvinist like his father, Count Palatine of the Rhine Frederick III. Having made several stays at the French court and at the court of the Duke of Lorraine in Nancy, the latter had established relationships that led him to take part in the religious conflict in France: he sent troops twice, in 1567 to help Gaspard de Coligny, and then at the beginning of 1576 under the leadership of his son Jean-Casimir. The latter came to support the Prince of Condé (who had promised him the Three Bishoprics in exchange) and the Duke of Anjou against Henry III, but he suspended his action following the negotiations begun in April by the royal power, which promised him astronomical sums and granted him the Duchy of Étampes in May. However, the death of his father Frederick III in October and the accession of his elder brother Louis VI, a Lutheran, weakened him while France did not keep its commitments, even taking back the duchy of Etampes in March 1577. Jean-Casimir then returned to Germany where the death of Louis VI soon made him regent of the Palatinate.
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