Editing Enghien (section)

==History==
Enghien gave its name to a French [[duchy]] and to the [[commune in France|commune]] of [[Enghien-les-Bains]], a suburb of Paris, due to a complex series of family successions: in 1487, [[Marie de Luxembourg|Mary of Luxembourg]] (d. 1547), the only heir of [[Peter II of Luxembourg]] (d. 1482), [[Count]] of [[Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise]] and member of one of the branches of the [[House of Luxembourg]], married [[François, Count of Vendôme|François de Bourbon-Vendôme]] (d. 1495), the great-grandfather of King [[Henry IV of France]]. Mary of Luxembourg brought as her [[dowry]] the fief of [[Condé-en-Brie]] ([[Aisne]] ''[[Départements of France|département]]'', France) and the [[county]] of Enghien, among others. These fiefs passed to her grandson [[Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé]], uncle of King Henry IV of France, who started the line of the [[Prince of Condé|Princes of Condé]], the famous cadet branch of the French royal family.

In 1566, the county of Enghien was elevated to a [[duchy]]-[[peerage of France|peerage]]. However, the necessary registration process was not completed, so the title became extinct at the death of Louis I de Bourbon in 1569. In 1633, [[Henry II, Prince of Condé]], grandson of Louis I de Bourbon, inherited the [[duke of Montmorency|duchy of Montmorency]], near Paris, after the execution of [[Henri II de Montmorency]], brother of his wife [[Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency]]. In 1689, King [[Louis XIV]] allowed [[Henry III, Prince of Condé]], grandson of Henry II, Prince of Condé, to rename the duchy of Montmorency as "[[Duke of Enghien|duchy of Enghien]]", in memory of the duchy of Enghien which the Princes of Condé had lost in 1569 at the death of Louis I de Bourbon.

The city of [[Montmorency, Val-d'Oise|Montmorency]], at the heart of the duchy, continued to be known as "Montmorency", despite the official name change, but the name "Enghien" stuck to the nearby lake and marshland that developed later as a [[spa resort]] and was incorporated as the [[commune in France|commune]] of [[Enghien-les-Bains]] in the 19th century.