Charles Amadeus Duke of NEMOURS

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Charles Amadeus of Savoy (French: Charles-Amédée de Savoie), Duke of Nemours (12 April 1624 ? 30 July 1652) was a French military leader and magnate. He was the father of the penultimate Duchess of Savoy and of a Queen of Portugal.[1]

Biography
He was a son of Henri of Savoy, 3rd Duke of Nemours (1572-1632) and Anne of Lorraine. He was a younger brother of Louis of Savoy, who died in 1641.[2]

Charles Amadeus served in the Army of Flanders in 1645, and in the following year commanded the light cavalry at the siege of Kortrijk. In 1652 he took part in the war of the Fronde, and fought at Bleneau and at the Faubourg St Antoine, where he was wounded.[3]

On 11 July 1643 he married, at the Louvre, Élisabeth de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Vendôme, the daughter of César, Duke of Vendôme, the legitimised son of King Henry IV of France by his mistress, Gabrielle d'Estrées. Her mother was the wealthy heiress, Françoise de Lorraine (1592?1669), the daughter of Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Merc?ur.

Charles Amadeus had several children: two daughters, three sons and a stillborn child of unrecorded gender. Only his two daughters survived him;

Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy, Mademoiselle de Nemours (1644?1724), who married Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, in 1665, and had issue;[2]
Stillborn child
Marie Françoise Élisabeth of Savoy, Mademoiselle d'Aumale (1646?1683), who married king Alphonso VI of Portugal, in 1666 and afterwards Alphonso's younger brother, Pedro, Duke of Beja, regent of Portugal, and had issue.[2]
Joseph of Savoy (1649?1649)
Francis of Savoy (1650?1650)
Charles Amadeus of Savoy (1651?1651)

Charles Amadeus was killed by his brother-in-law, François de Bourbon, Duke of Beaufort in a duel in 1652.[4][5] He was buried at the Notre Dame d'Annecy[citation needed] in Annecy, the capital of the Genevois, of which the Dukes of Nemours were also counts. Charles Amadeus' brother Henri, who had been archbishop of Reims, withdrew from orders in order to succeed him in the title of Duke of Nemours.[2]

Charles married Elisabeth DE BOURBON on 11 Jul 1643. Elisabeth (daughter of Cesar de Bourbon Duke of VENDOME and Duchess of Vendome Francoise DE LORRAINE) was born in Aug 1614 in Paris, France; died on 19 May 1664 in Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Marie Jeanne Baptiste of SAVOY-NEMOURS was born on 11 Apr 1644; died on 15 Mar 1724.

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Henri of Savoy (French: Henri de Savoie) (2 November 1572 - 10 July 1632), called originally Marquis de Saint-Sorlin, was the son of Jacques of Savoy and Anna d'Este, the widow of François de Lorraine, Duke of Guise. He succeeded his brother Charles Emmanuel as Duke of Nemours.

In 1588 he took the marquisate of Saluzzo from the French for his cousin, the Duke of Savoy. The princes of Guise, his half-brothers, induced him to join the League, and in 1591 he was made governor of Dauphiné in the name of that faction. He made his submission to Henry IV in 1596. After quarrelling with the duke of Savoy he withdrew to Burgundy and joined the Spaniards in their war against Savoy. After peace had been proclaimed on November 14, 1616, he retired to the French court.[1]

After his death, he was succeeded by his eldest son, Louis; on the death of Louis in 1641 by his second son Charles Amadeus;[1] and on Charles's death in 1651 by his third son Henri. All three were the sons of his wife Anne de Lorraine (1600?1638), daughter of Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Aumale.

Henri married Anne DE LORRAINE. Anne was born in 1600; died in 1638. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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