Henri II, Prince of Condé
Henri II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé was the head of the senior-most cadet branch of the House of Bourbon for nearly all his life and heir presumptive to the King of France for the first few years of his life. Henri was the father of Louis, le Grand Condé, the celebrated French general.
Henri II, Prince of Condé
Henri as a boy ( Workshop of Jacob II de Gheyn) held at Chantilly Musée Condé
A portrait of Henri II, Prince of Condé.
Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, known as le Grand Condé, was a French military commander. A brilliant tactician and strategist, he is regarded as one of France's greatest generals, particularly celebrated for his triumphs in the Thirty Years' War and his campaigns during the Franco-Dutch War.
Louis as Duke of Enghien , c. 1640s
Battle of Rocroi, 19 May 1643, the duc d'Enghien ordering his troops to stop fighting the Spanish, who have come to him to surrender
Condé at the Battle of Lens, 20 August 1648
The duc d'Enghien saving his father, the Grand Condé at the 1674 battle of Seneffe