The House of Bourbon is a European royal house of French origin, a branch of the Capetian dynasty (). Bourbonic kings first ruled France and Navarre in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty held thrones in Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma. Spain and Luxembourg currently have monarchs of the House of Bourbon.

The royal Bourbons originated in 1272 when the heiress of the lordship of Bourbon married the youngest son of King Louis IX. The house continued for three centuries as a cadet branch, while more senior Capetians ruled France, until Henry IV became the first Bourbon king of France in 1589. Bourbon monarchs then united to France the small kingdom of Navarre, which Henry's father had acquired by marriage in 1555, ruling both until the 1792 overthrow of the monarchy during the French Revolution. Restored briefly in 1814 and definitively in 1815 after the fall of the First French Empire, the senior line of the Bourbons was finally overthrown in the July Revolution of 1830. A cadet Bourbon branch, the House of Orleans, then ruled for 18 years (18301848), until it too was overthrown.

The Princes de Conde were a cadet branch of the Bourbons descended from an uncle of Henry IV, and the Princes de Conti were a cadet branch of the Conde. Both houses were prominent French noble families well known for their participation in French affairs, even during exile in the French Revolution, until their respective extinctions in 1830 and 1814.

Answer the following questions:
1. What 's the main topic?
2. When did it originate?
3. Was the wife or the husband the Bourbon in the marriage?
4. Who did she marry?
5. What is The House of Bourbon?
6. In what century did the house have Spanish thrones?
7. What dynasty did they belong to?
8. In what century did they first rule?
9. And for how much longer did the house hold on?
10. What branch?
11. What types of rules were French property at the time?
12. Name a Bourbon cadet branch?
1. The House of Bourbon
2. 1272
3. wife
4. the youngest son of King Louis IX.
5. a European royal house of French origin
6. By the 18th century
7. the Spanish Bourbon dynasty
8. 16th
9. three centuries
10. a cadet branch
11. senior Capetians
12. the House of Orleans