The Constable de Bourbon was killed during the Siege of Rome, and artist Benvenuto Cellini claimed in his autobiography to have fired the fatal shot.
By his marriage to his cousin, Bourbon had several children who were stillborn or died in early infancy. After the duchesse de Bourbon died, the king suggested a marriage to the dowager comtesse d'Angoulême, Louise de Savoie, as a way of neutralizing the Constable's claims to land the king claimed through his mother.
WI one of those three kids the duchesse bore him (Françoise Cte de Clermont (1517-1518), or the stillborn twins (1518)) had survived. Bourbon-Vendome is relegated to a further removed place in the succession, but how might the orphaned little duc de Bourbon fare at the French court?
By his marriage to his cousin, Bourbon had several children who were stillborn or died in early infancy. After the duchesse de Bourbon died, the king suggested a marriage to the dowager comtesse d'Angoulême, Louise de Savoie, as a way of neutralizing the Constable's claims to land the king claimed through his mother.
WI one of those three kids the duchesse bore him (Françoise Cte de Clermont (1517-1518), or the stillborn twins (1518)) had survived. Bourbon-Vendome is relegated to a further removed place in the succession, but how might the orphaned little duc de Bourbon fare at the French court?