Bourbon-Busset

{{Royal house|

| name = House of Bourbon-Busset

| country = France

| coat of arms = 150px

| caption = Original arms of the family

| parent house = House of Bourbon

| titles = * Count of Busset

Baron of Busset
Baron of Châlus
Baron of Puysagut
Baron of Vésigneux

| founder = Pierre de Bourbon, Baron of Busset

| current head = Charles de Bourbon, Count of Busset

| founding year = 1498

|founded={{Start date and age|1498}}

| dissolution =

| cadet branches = House of Bourbon-Châlus

}}

The Bourbon-Busset family is a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, being thus agnatic descendants of the Capetian dynasty. Historically, they have been regarded as non-dynastic since decisions rendered by Louis XI of France.

Possibly, however, the family may be canonically legitimate, in which case it is the most senior extant male-line branch of the Capetians, and senior to the Bourbons which reign today in Spain and Luxembourg and have in the past ruled France, Naples and Sicily, as well as to the House of Braganza, also Capetians by illegitimate descent.

The head of the family uses the title of Count of Busset, which derives its name from the marriage of Pierre de Bourbon (son of Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Liège) with Marguerite de Tourzel, heiress of the barony of Busset. Their son Philippe married Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois, only legitimate child of Cesare Borgia, Duke of Valentinois.

Origin

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The House of Bourbon-Busset descends in male line from Pierre de Bourbon (1464–1529), the eldest son of Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Liège (1438–1482),{{sfn|Poitrineau|1973|p=128}} who was a son of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon. Louis, in male line a sixth cousin of King Charles VII of France, married, without royal licence, Catharine d'Egmond, a daughter of Arnold, Duke of Gelderland (probably illegitimate, as the ducal House of Egmont's chronicles never recognized her among princesses of Gelderland).{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}

From this union, three natural sons were born:

Pierre de Bourbon (1464–1529), chamberlain of Louis XII of France;[http://www.busset.com/index.php?nav=1 Château de Busset] married in 1498 Marguerite de Tourzel d'Alègre, heiress to the barony of Busset; this alliance was the start of the House de Bourbon-Busset;
Louis de Bourbon (1465–1500);
Jacques de Bourbon (1466–1537), Jesuit priest.

Although the marriage between Louis and Catherine took place before Louis was ordained a priest, which would have made it canonically impossible for him to marry, it was kept secret, being against the interests of Louis XI of France. French alliances in the Low Countries were not compatible with those of the House of Egmont. The French king therefore never recognized any children of the marriage as legitimate. There was a de facto legitimization of the Bourbon-Bussets when they were allowed the treatment of a Cousin du Roi. For the rest of history, the Bourbon-Bussets never claimed anything more than what they had, and constantly remained faithful servants of the Bourbon kings.

Historical evolution

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Members of the Bourbon-Busset family later acquired the titles of count of Châlus and count of Lignières.

When the Valois-Angoulême branch on the throne was nearing its end in the 16th century, Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, was recognized as the premier prince du sang of France, although he only descended from James I, Count of La Marche (1319–1362), the younger brother of Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (from whom the Bourbon-Bussets descend in the male line).

Modern era

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Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset (1898–1984), daughter of the count of Lignières, is a great-great-granddaughter of Jacques, youngest son of the 8th Count of Busset (1722–1793), making her Jacques' (the 14th count) fourth cousin once removed. She got married in 1927 with a royal Bourbon relative, Xavier, titular duke of Parma and Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain. Although Madeleine brought as dowry the [https://web.archive.org/web/20080316004039/http://pagesperso-orange.fr/webnbroc/berry/ligniere.htm chateau of Lignières], at the time this marriage was not accepted as dynastic by the titular duke, Xavier's elder brother, obtaining dynastic recognition retroactively around the time of the engagement of Xavier's eldest son to the daughter of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands in 1964.

As the wife of Xavier, Madeleine was, however, proclaimed Queen consort of Spain by the remaining Carlists in 1952. Widowed in 1977, she remained a staunch adherent of her husband's Carlist principles. She excluded her elder son from the funeral of her husband as disloyal to his father's traditionalist Carlism, recognizing instead the claim to Carlist leadership and to Lignières of her younger son, Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma, (self-proclaimed) Duke of Aranjuez, who continued the rivalry with his brother as Carlist pretender.

A senior male-line descendant of the Bourbon-Bussets was the French writer Jacques de Bourbon-Busset (1912–2001), member of the French Academy. President Charles de Gaulle was once quoted telling him: Had it not been for the decision of King Louis XI, you might well be head of state of France today, instead of me. Another notable author of the Bourbon-Bussets is French-Spanish screenwriter and producer Luis Ruben Valadéz-Bourbon,{{Cite book|last=Varennes|first=Jean-Charles|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/perri.varen.1981.01|title=Les Bourbon Busset|date=1981|publisher=Éditions Perrin|isbn=978-2-262-00234-3}} known for his philanthropy with the Human Rights Campaign and cinematic work with DC Comics.

Since 2001, the head of the House of Bourbon-Busset is Charles de Bourbon, Count of Busset (born 1945), who is a civil engineer of the Ecole des Mines de Paris, and Mayor of Ballancourt-sur-Essonne (1998–2014). He is the son of Jacques de Bourbon-Busset.

Bourbon barons and counts of Busset

{{Tree chart | Pi1 | | | | | | Ja1 |Pi1=1310–1356
Pierre I
Duke of Bourbon|Ja1=1319–1362
Jacques I
Count of La Marche}}

{{Tree chart | Lo2 | | | | | | Jo1 |Lo2=1337–1410
Louis II
Duke of Bourbon|Jo1=1344–1393
Jean I
Count of La Marche}}

{{Tree chart | Je1 | | | | | | Lou |Je1=1380–1434
Jean I
Duke of Bourbon|Lou=1376–1446
Louis
Count of Vendôme}}

{{Tree chart | Ch1 | | | | | | Je8 |Ch1=1401–1456
Charles I
Duke of Bourbon|Je8=1425–1477
Jean VIII
Count of Vendôme}}

{{Tree chart | LoB | | | | | | Fra |LoB=1438–1482
Louis de Bourbon
Bishop of Liège|Fra=1470–1495
François
Count of Vendôme}}

{{Tree chart | Pie | | | | | | Cha |Pie=1464–1530
Pierre
Baron of Busset{{sfn|Poitrineau|1973|p=128}}|Cha=1489–1537
Charles
Duke of Vendôme}}

{{Tree chart | Phi | | | | | | Ant |Phi=1499–1557
Philippe
Baron of Busset|Ant=1515–1562
Antoine
King of Navarre}}

{{Tree chart | Cla | | | | | | He4 |Cla=1531–1588
Claude
Count of Busset|He4=1554–1610
Henri IV
King of France}}

{{Tree chart | Ces | | | | | | L13 |Ces=1565–1630
César
Count of Busset|L13=1601–1643
Louis XIII
King of France}}

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ORLÉANS}}

{{Tree chart | Cla | | JeL | | L14 | | Ph1 |Cla=1589–1641
Claude
Count of Busset|JeL=1597–1667
Jean-Louis
Count of Busset|L14=1638–1715
Louis XIV
King of France|Ph1=1640–1701
Philippe I
Duke of Orléans}}

{{Tree chart | | | | | Lou |Lou=1648–1677
Louis
Count of Busset}}

{{Tree chart | | | | | Lou |Lou=1672–1724
Louis
Count of Busset}}

{{Tree chart | | | | | Fra |Fra=1722–1793
François-Louis
Count of Busset}}

{{Tree chart | | | | | Fra |Fra=1749–1829
Louis-François
Count of Busset}}

{{Tree chart | | | | | Fra |Fra=1782–1856
François-Louis
Count of Busset}}

{{Tree chart | Cha | | Gas |Cha=1819–1897
Charles
Count of Busset|Gas=1819–1871
Gaspard
Count of Châlus}}

{{Tree chart | | | | | Rob |Rob=1848–1918
Robert
Count of Busset}}

{{Tree chart | | | | | Rob |Rob=1875–1954
François
Count of Busset}}

{{Tree chart | | | | | Jac |Jac=1912–2001
Jacques
Count of Busset}}

{{Tree chart | | | | | Jac |Jac=1945–
Charles
Count of Busset}}

{{Tree chart | | | | | Phi |Phi=1976–
Philippe de
Bourbon-Busset}}

Other illegitimate houses

Bourbon-Maine (extinct)
Bourbon-Penthièvre (extinct)
Second house of Bourbon-Vendôme (extinct)

References

Sources

{{cite book |title=Le mémoire sur l'état de la Généralité de Riom en 1697 dresse pour l'instruction du duc de Bourgogne par l'intendant Lefevre d'Ormesson |url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/11920156/abel_poitrineau/ |editor-first=Abel |editor-last=Poitrineau |language=French |publisher=Institut D'Etudes du Massif Central |year=1973 }}

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