Charles III de Bourbon (c. 1554 – 15 June 1610), was Archbishop of Rouen, and the illegitimate son of Antoine de Bourbon, king of Navarre, and his mistress Louise de La Béraudière du Rouhet.
On 13 March 1569, Charles was captured by the Catholic forces at the battle of Jarnac.
In both circumstances Charles was an "administrator", since he did not seek to intervene in political or religious life unlike his predecessors.
His half-brother Henry tried to establish him as archbishop of Reims in 1591 but he was unable to remove the ecclesiastical see from the control of the House of Guise.
[2] He kept his position until his resignation in 1604 in favor of Cardinal Francois de Joyeuse.