[133] Édouard de Barthélemy, “Charlotte Catherine de la Trémoille, Princesse de Condé.” [134] E. Halphen, “Introduction to Fiefbrun.” [135] Until the death of his eldest brother François, Maréchal Duc de Montmorency, in 1577, Henri de Montmorency had borne the title of Baron de Damville, which was now assumed by the third of the Montmorency brothers, until then known as the Seigneur de Méru. [136] Natural daughter of Henri II. by Filippa le Duc, a Piedmontese girl of humble origin, and not of Diane de Poitiers, as several historians have wrongly stated. She married, first, Orazio Farnese, Duke of Castro, and, _en secondes noces_, François de Montmorency, elder brother of the Constable. [137] Afterwards Duc d’Angoulême. He was a natural son of Charles IX. by Marie Touché, and had married Charlotte de Montmorency, daughter of the Connétable Henri de Montmorency. [138] Désormeaux. [139] He was a Portuguese Dominican monk, who settled in France, and became Almoner to Henri IV. and confessor to the Dowager-Princesse de Condé. [140] “Rerum ab Henrici Borbonis Franciae protoprincipis majoribus gestarum Epitome.” [141] “Recueil de l’Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.” Halphen. [142] Letter of Pisani to Villeroy, 5 March, 1598, cited by the Duc d’Aumale. [143] The Abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, situated a little beyond the Bois de Vincennes, had been secularized in 1533, and afterwards sold to Catherine de’ Medici, from whose executors the Dowager-Princesse de Condé had recently purchased it. It afterwards became one of the favourite country-seats of the Condés. [144] Cardinal Bentiviglio, “Relazioni.” [145] By his second wife, Louise de Budos, a woman of middling birth, but of such extraordinary beauty that some persons attributed it to supernatural agency. [146] “Relazioni.” [147] Maréchal de Bassompierre, “Mémoires.” [148] The Dowager-Princesse de Condé was, through her mother, a niece of the Constable. [149] L’Estoile. [150] “Mon ami--_M. le Prince_ (Condé) est icy qui faict le diable; vous seriez en colère et auriez honte des choses qu’il dit de moi; enfin, la patience m’échappera et je me resous de bien parler à lui” (Henri IV. to Sully, 9 June, 1609). [151] André Chénier, “les Poésies de Malherbe.” [152] Henrard, “Henri IV. et la Princesse de Condé.” [153] Tallemant des Réaux, “Historiettes.” [154] Cited by the Duc d’Aumale, “Histoire des Princes de Condé.” [155] Claude Enoch Virey (1566–1636). He was a Doctor of Laws, had fought as a Catholic volunteer in Henri IV.’s army at the battles of Arques and Ivry and at the sieges of Paris and Rouen, and was a poet of some distinction. The Président de Harlay, whose life he had saved on the Day of the Barricades, procured him a post on the educational staff of the young Condé, and he was subsequently appointed his private secretary. [156] Duc d’Aumale, “Histoire des Princes de Condé.”