[Henri IV., King of Navarre, succeeded to the throne on the extinction
of the house of Valois, as the head of the house of Bourbon, which
descends from Robert of France, Count de Clermont, the fifth son of St.
Louis, and Seigneur de Bourbon. On the death of Louis I. in 1341,
leaving two sons, this house was divided into the Bourbon, or elder
branch (which became extinct on the death of the Constable of Bourbon,
in 1527), and the younger branch, or that of the Counts de la Marche,
afterwards Counts and Dukes of Vendome. Henri was the son of Antoine de
Bourbon, Duc de Vendome.]
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