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'''Henri de La Trémoille, 3rd [[Duke of Thouars]]''' (22 December 1598 – 21 January 1674) was the 3rd Duke of Thouars, 2nd Duke of La Tremoille, and Prince of Talmond and [[Principality of Taranto|Taranto]].
He was the son of [[Claude de La Trémoille]] and his wife, [[Countess Charlotte Brabantina of Nassau|Charlotte Brabantina of Nassau]], and a descendant of the medieval general [[Louis II de La Trémoille]].
==Family==
La Trémoille married his first cousin, [[Marie de La Tour d'Auvergne]], in 1619.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Riley |first=Sandy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pn9IDwAAQBAJ |title=Charlotte de La Trémoïlle, the Notorious Countess of Derby |date=2018-01-23 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-5275-0701-2 |pages=39 |language=en}}</ref> She was the daughter of [[Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon]], and his second wife [[Countess Elisabeth of Nassau]]. They had five children: [[Henri Charles de La Trémoille|Henri Charles]], [[Louis Maurice de La Trémoille|Louis Maurice]], Élisabeth, [[Marie Charlotte de la Trémoille]], and Armand-Charles. Henri-Charles inherited his father's Breton holdings in 1661.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Collins |first=James B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-GasUXkjfoYC |title=Classes, Estates and Order in Early-Modern Brittany |date=1994 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-53314-0 |pages=223 |language=en}}</ref>
==Career==
La Trémoille's father, Claude, had converted to [[Protestantism]] during the [[French Wars of Religion]], but La Trémoille converted to [[Catholicism]] around the time [[Cardinal Richelieu]] and [[Louis XIII]] suppressed the [[Huguenot]] rebellion at the [[siege of La Rochelle]] in 1628. His wife sent the children to her relatives in the Netherlands, making sure they were brought up Calvinist. She also maintained a Reformed court with church services, something which her husband tolerated.
Following the siege, La Trémoille continued to serve in the French army, being wounded in action in Italy. Following that campaign, La Trémoille switched to a political career.
In 1668, Henri affected by the [[gout]], left the businesses of his duchy to his elder son. He died on 21 January 1674, seventy-five years old, and was buried in Thouars.
==Ancestry and claims==
La Trémoille was the heir-general of [[Frederick IV of Naples]] and his first wife [[Anne of Savoy]], and succeeded to the Cypriot claims to the title of [[King of Jerusalem]] when his father died. He was the heir-general of Anne of Savoy, whose daughter Charlotte became in 1499 the ''de jure'' heiress of the claim of the Kings of Cyprus to the throne of Jerusalem. Since Frederick IV was the second son of [[Isabella of Clermont]] and [[Ferdinand I of Naples]], he also succeeded to the Brienne claims to [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]] of his distant cousin John Casimir of Poland at the latter's death 1672, uniting the successions of Brienne and of Cyprus to the ''de jure'' crown of Jerusalem.
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