Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, Prince of Condé

Louis Henri de Bourbon
Duke of Bourbon
Portrait by Pierre Gobert
7th Prince of Condé
Tenure	4 March 1710 - 27 January 1740
Predecessor	Louis
Successor	Louis Joseph
Born	(1692-08-18)18 August 1692 Palace of Versailles, Île-de-France, France.
Died	27 January 1740(1740-01-27) (aged 47) Château de Chantilly, Île-de-France, France.
Spouse	Marie Anne de Bourbon m 9 July 1713) Princess Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg (m 23 July 1728)
Issue	Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé
Full name
Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon
House	Bourbon (Condé branch)
Father	Louis de Bourbon, 6th Prince of Condé
Mother	Louise Françoise de Bourbon
Burial	Église Collégiale Saint-Martin, Colmar, France.
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Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (Louis Henri Joseph; 18 August 1692 – 27 January 1740), was a French nobleman and politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1723 to 1726. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, he was a prince du sang and the second child and eldest son of Louis III, Prince of Condé, and Louise Françoise de Bourbon, the eldest daughter of King Louis XIV and his mistress Madame de Montespan. Following the death of his father in 1710, he became head of the Bourbon-Condé cadet branch of the House of Bourbon. As such, he was entitled to be known as Prince of Condé, but he used the title Duke of Bourbon instead and was known at court as Monsieur le Duc. After his maternal grandfather died in 1715, Louis Henri became a member of the regency council led by Philippe d'Orléans, the regent for the new minor king Louis XV.

First marriage

Onm 9 July 1713, he married Marie Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Conti, daughter of François Louis, Prince of Conti and Marie Thérèse de Bourbon. They had no issue.

Second marriage

On 23 July 1728, he married Princess Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg, daughter of Ernest Leopold, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg and Eleonore of Löwenstein-Wertheim and also a sister of the Queen Polyxena of Sardinia, mother of King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia.

Issue

1. Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (9 August 1736 – 13 May 1818) married (1) Charlotte de Rohan and had issue. Married (2) Maria Caterina Brignole but had no issue.

Titles and styles

• 18 August 1692 – 4 March 1710 His Most Serene Highness The Duke of Enghien, Prince of the French royal blood.
• 4 March 1710 – 27 January 1740 His Most Serene Highness The Duke of Bourbon, Prince of the French royal blood.
• August 18, 1692 – January 27 1740 His Most Serene Highness The Prince of Condé, First Prince of the French royal blood.

Honours

• Knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit (1 January 1709)
• Knights of the Order of Saint Michel (1 January 1709)
• Knight of the Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece (1724)

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