Henri, Duc de Joyeuse (

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, 21 September 1563 – Rivoli, 28 September 1608) was a General in the

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and a member of the Catholic League, who became ordained as a Capuchin after the death of his wife, Catherine de La Valette.Henri, Duc de Joyeuse
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He was the youngest brother of Anne de Joyeuse and

François de Joyeuse François de Joyeuse (24 June 1562 – 23 August 1615) was a French churchman and politician. Biography Born at Carcassonne, François de Joyeuse was the second son of Guillaume de Joyeuse and Marie Eléanor de Batarnay. As the younger son of a ...

. After another of his brothers, Scipion, drowned himself in the Tarn after the defeat of Villemur in 1592, his title of Duke of Joyeuse was passed to Henri. When he died in 1608, the title passed to Henri's daughter Henriette, who had married

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in 1597.

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