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Bourbon, Charles, 8th Duke of Bourbon

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Bourbon, Charles, 8th Duke of Bourbon (1490–1527)

Constable of France, honoured for his courage at the Battle of Marignano in 1515. Later he served the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and helped to drive the French from Italy. In 1526 he was made duke of Milan, and in 1527 he marched on Rome but was killed in the assault (by a shot the artist Benvenuto Cellini claimed to have fired). His troops proceeded to sack the city.



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