As a little boy he grew up in one of France's leading Huguenot families. However, when his father suddenly reverted to the Catholic religion, Henri Charles was removed from his mother and taken first to a great-aunt, the Abbess of Sainte Croix. Once he was made a Catholic, the was then taken to the Jesuits for further education. However, the Protestant feelings were still there and, after a few years, he ran away in disguise to the Court of his Protestant uncle, Frederik Hendrik, in The Netherlands. 
While in The Netherlands, his mother tried to arrange a marriage for him with Marguerite de Rohan, heiress of another Huguenot family. However, though remaining a Protestant, Marguerite married a Catholic nobleman instead. Also, Henri Charles had fallen in love with Louise Henriette, the daughter of his great-uncle Frederik Hendrik. At one stage they regarded themselves engaged, but Louise Henriette's mother, preferring the Elector of Brandenburg, forced Louise Henriette into 
marriage with her German cousin, Friedrich Wilhelm, "the Great Elector" of Brandenburg. 

His mother then contacted another cousin, Amelie Elisabeth of Hessen-Kassel, and together they arranged his marriage to Amelie's daughter, Emilie of Hessen-Kassel. Together with his bride, he 
returned to France after having been absent for many years, and here he joined the "Fronde", the Protestant league against Cardinal Mazarin. Mazarin promptly imprisoned him and he was only released after his mother's pleading with the Cardinal. 
In 1655 he returned to The Netherlands, became a general in the Dutch army and the Governor of the city 's-Hertogenbosch. However, to secure the future of his children, he sent them to his mother in France for their education. After his mother died and warned by Turenne, his wife rushed to France to collect their children when Louis XIV threatened to keep them there and force their conversion to the Roman Catholic religion. 
In 1672, after a disagreement with the Dutch government, he returned to France but for only a short period. However, on his return, his family were not aware of his promise to Louis XIV that he and his family would convert to the Catholic faith. The day after he broke the news to his family, he forced his son to accompany him back to France, where, after six weeks of beatings and imprisonment, his son gave in and was sent to a Jesuit college in Paris. 
However, his wife and daughter secretly ran away. He pursued them and caught up with them at Blois but, unable to dissuade them, allowed them to go Germany. Shortly afterwards, he died suddenly, 14 September 1672, aged only fifty-one.
 

Source: Leo van de Pas