[132] Memoir published by Édouard de Barthélemy, “la Princesse de Condé: Charlotte Catherine de la Trémoille.”
[133] Édouard de Barthélemy, “Charlotte Catherine de la Trémoille, Princesse de Condé.”
[134] E. Halphen, “Introduction to Fiefbrun.”
[135] Until the death of his eldest brother François, Maréchal Duc de Montmorency, in 1577, Henri de Montmorency had borne the title of Baron de Damville, which was now assumed by the third of the Montmorency brothers, until then known as the Seigneur de Méru.
[136] Natural daughter of Henri II. by Filippa le Duc, a Piedmontese girl of humble origin, and not of Diane de Poitiers, as several historians have wrongly stated. She married, first, Orazio Farnese, Duke of Castro, and, en secondes noces, François de Montmorency, elder brother of the Constable.
[137] Afterwards Duc d’Angoulême. He was a natural son of Charles IX. by Marie Touché, and had married Charlotte de Montmorency, daughter of the Connétable Henri de Montmorency.
[138] Désormeaux.
[139] He was a Portuguese Dominican monk, who settled in France, and became Almoner to Henri IV. and confessor to the Dowager-Princesse de Condé.
[140] “Rerum ab Henrici Borbonis Franciae protoprincipis majoribus gestarum Epitome.”
[141] “Recueil de l’Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.” Halphen.