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Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé

1553 - 1574

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Marie of Cleves or of Nevers (Marie de Clèves, Marie de Nevers; 1553–1574), by marriage the Princess of Condé, was the wife of Henry, Prince of Condé, and an early love interest of King Henry III of France. Marie was the last child of Francis I of Cleves, Duke of Nevers, and Marguerite of Bourbon-Vendôme. She was brought up by her aunt Queen Jeanne III of Navarre, who raised her as a Calvinist. In July 1572 she married in a Calvinist ceremony her first cousin, Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, duc d'Enghien. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé is the 505th most popular companion (down from 495th in 2024). (up from 1,254th in 2019)

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Among companions, Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé ranks 505 out of 784Before her are Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon, Isabella, Princess of Asturias, Aelia Flaccilla, Nimaathap, Adela of Pfalzel, and Ayşe Hatun. After her are Juana Manuel, Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg, Jagat Gosain, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, and Isabella of Burgundy, Queen of Germany.

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Among people born in 1553, Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé ranks 8Before her are Margaret of Valois, Louise of Lorraine, Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia, Archduke Ernest of Austria, Luca Marenzio, and Patriarch Filaret of Moscow. After her are Prospero Alpini, Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma, John Florio, Vitsentzos Kornaros, Nicolò Contarini, and Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. Among people deceased in 1574, Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé ranks 11Before her are Georg Joachim Rheticus, Renée of France, Bartolomeo Eustachi, Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry, Maarten van Heemskerck, and Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine. After her are Ebussuud Efendi, Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Guru Amar Das, Louis of Nassau, Damião de Góis, and Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.

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