Career

Damville responded by arresting four bourgeois and sending them to Paris with charges of slander. He became Duke of Montmorency on his brother"s death in 1579. As a leader of the party called the Politiques he took a prominent part in the French Wars of Religion.

In 1593 he was made constable of France, but Henry IV showed some anxiety to keep him away from Languedoc, which he ruled like a sovereign prince.

Charlotte de Montmorency (1571-1636), married in 1591 Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême and had issue;

Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency;

Henri II de Montmorency.