Henri d'Angouleme

Henri d'Angoulême, sometimes referred to as Henri de France or Henri de Valois, born in 1551 at Aix-la-Chapelle. He was the illegitimate son of Henry II of France and Janet Stewart.[1] While as governor of Provence, his secretary was the poet Francois de Malherbe.[2] He was known to write sonnets, one of which was set to music by Fabrice Caietain.[3] In 1586, he was killed in a duel with Philip Altoviti in Aix, Provence.[4]

Titled Chevalier d'Angouleme by his father, he served as abbot of La Chaise-Dieu, Grand Prior of France,[5] Admiral of the Levant and governor of Provence.

He participated in the siege of La Rochelle in 1573 organized by the Duke of Anjou, later King Henry III and the headquarters of Ménerbes as governor of Provence.

References

  1. ^ Robert J. Sealy, The Palace Academy of Henry III, (Droz, 1981), 206.
  2. ^ (FR)Francois Malherbe, George Joseph and Maria Green, La Poésie Française du Premier 17e siècle: Textes et Contextes, Ed. David Lee Rubin, (Rookwood Press, Inc., 2004), 112.
  3. ^ Jeanice Brooks, Courtly song in late sixteenth-century France, (The University of Chicago Press, 2000), 124.
  4. ^ Francois Malherbe, Blanche M. Kelly, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 9, Ed. Charles George Herbermann and Edward Aloysius Pace, (The Encyclopedia Press, Inc., 1913), 569.
  5. ^ Jeanice Brooks, Courtly song in late sixteenth-century France, 124.