Jean de Bourbon, Count of Enghien

Jean de Bourbon, comte d'Enghien and comte de Soissons (6 July 1528 – 10 August 1557) was a French prince du sang and military commander during the latter Italian Wars of the French king Henri II. The son of Charles de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (duke of Vendôme) and Françoise d'Alençon, Jean had several older brothers. After the death of his elder brother François de Bourbon, comte d'Enghien (count of Enghien), Jean inherited the title, by which he would be known to posterity.

Enghien enjoyed a ceremonial role in the early reign of Henri II, he was not however afforded much in the way of offices or titles by the crown. For the conclusion of peace with the English in 1550, he was made a hostage as guarantor of French payments to England. With the resumption of the Italian Wars in 1551, Enghien participated in the war of Parma at the siege of Lanzo. He then saw service in the successful defence of French controlled Metz in 1552, against a siege led by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Come 1555, Enghien was back in Italy, and participated in the successful capture of Volpiano. Sometime in 1557 he married his first cousin Marie de Bourbon, and shortly thereafter died in the disastrous French defeat of the battle of Saint-Quentin on 10 August 1557.