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LEFT CONDE 100 coNPf: Nord. One Godfrey de Conde, about 1200, was in possession of a part of the barony of Conde. His great-granddaugh- ter, Jeanne de Conde, married in 1335, Jacques de Bourbon, Comte de la Marche, and the barony of Conde went to their second son, Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Vendome, whose great-grandson, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Conde, in virtue of his blood-relationship to the royal family, assumed the title of Prince, and is regarded as the founder of the new house of this name. Its more celebrated members in history are the following: Conde, Louis I. de Bourbon, Prince DE, son of Charles, Duke of Vendome; born in 1530. He married the grandniece of the Constable de Montmorenci. He served his early campaigns in Piedmont, but first distinguished himself at the de- fense of Metz, besieged by Charles V. in the request of Henry IV. became a Catho- lic; born in 1588. In 1616 he was sent to the Bastille, where he remained for three years. After the death of Louis XIII. the prince was liberated, and was made Minister of State to the regent. He died in 1646. Conde, Louis II. de Bourbon, Prince DE, called The Great, son of the preced- ing; born in Paris in 1621. He married a niece of Cardinal Richelieu, and was at first known as the Due d'Enghien. His first great achievement was the vic- tory over the Spanish army at Rocroi, in 1643. The capture of Thionville sooii followed. The following year was marked by the battle of Freiburg, which lasted three days, and the great victory over the Imperialists at Nordlingen. After taking Dunkirk, in 1646, Conde was, through envy, sent to Catalonia, •ir** building a concrete house 1552. Affronted at court, and hated by the Guises, he joined his brother, the King of Navarre, at Nerac, and became a Protestant. In 1560 he was arrested and sentenced to death, but was dis- charged after the death of Francis II. He soon after appeared as head of the Protestants, and was defeated and cap- tured at the battle of Dreux. He was again wronged by being refused the of- fice of lieutenant-general of the kingdom, to which he was entitled. In 1567 he fought the battle of St. Denis. Two years later the Protestants were defeated, and Conde was slain at Jarnac. Conde^ Henri II., Prince de, who at where with poor troops success failed him. It was necessary soon to recall him to Flanders, where he won the vic- tory of Lens over the Archduke Leopold, in 1648. Having off'ended the first min- ister, Cardinal Mazarin, he was im- prisoned for more than a year, and after his liberation he led the army of the Fronde, began the siege of Paris, and en- countered Turenne and the royalists in the Faubourg St. Antoine. Soon after he entered the service of Spain, and con- tended with varying success against his countrymen in Flanders. After the Peace of the Pyrenees he returned to Paris, and was employed in the conquest