LONGUEVILLE, HENRI II D'ORLANS, DUKE (DUC) DE, DUKE DE C

born , April 27, 1595 died May 11, 1663 noted rebel in the French civil wars of the Fronde, whose second wife was the celebrated Anne-Genevive de Bourbon-Cond, Duchess de Longueville (q.v.). After taking part in the conspiracy against Cardinal de Richelieu in 1626, Longueville distinguished himself in the wars in Italy and Germany. His first wife, Louise de Bourbon-Soissons, having died in 1637, he then married in 1642 Anne-Genevive of the princely house of Cond, who eventually drew him into the intrigues of the Fronde. By 1648 his campaigns had made him virtually sovereign in Normandy. Back in Paris early in 1649, he engaged in renewed rebellions later that year and was arrested (Jan. 18, 1650), along with the princes Cond and Conti. Freed, he became irritated by the pride of Cond and the adulteries of his wife and quit the rebel cause. He spent the rest of his life governing Normandy.