On two occasions, he had to leave France for conspiring against the government of his mother and of her Prime Minister, Cardinal Richelieu; and after waging an unsuccessful war in Languedoc leading to the Battle of Castelnaudary in 1632, he took refuge in Flanders.
He had to leave France for conspiring against the government of his mother and of her Prime Minister; and after waging an unsuccessful war in Languedoc leading to the Battle of Castelnaudary in 1632, he took refuge in Flanders. This was on two occasions. Cardinal Richelieu was her Prime Minister.