Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon, was a member of the powerful House of La Tour d'Auvergne, the Prince of Sedan and a marshal of France. He was a prominent Huguenot figure.
Posthumous Portrait by Merry-Joseph Blondel
House of La Tour d'Auvergne
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The House of La Tour d'Auvergne was a French noble dynasty. Its senior branch, extinct in 1501, held two of the last large fiefs acquired by the French crown, the counties of Auvergne and Boulogne, fo
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon
…Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne (28 September 1555 – 25 March 1623), duc de Bouillon (jure uxoris), was a member of the powerful House of La Tour d'Auvergne, the Prince of Sedan and a marshal of France. He was a prominent Huguenot figure. Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne was born at the castle of Joze-en-Auvergne…
Family de Beaufort-Turenne in the 14th and 15th century.
Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, comte d'Évreux, builder of Élysée Palace. Portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud (ca. 1720), now in the Metropolitan Museum