Henri de Bourbon-Condé, Prince of Condé, has became rather an embarrassment to his colleague Henry of Navarre in the recent civil wars in France, setting himself up as chief of the most fanatical Huguenots and failig conspicuously in his travels abroad in search of foreign help (1580).
He fails also in his campaign of 1585 in western France—when he is driven to take refuge in Guernsey.