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Arms Of The House Of Rohan-Soubise
Arms or ARMS may refer to: *Arm or arms, the upper limbs of the body Arm, Arms, or ARMS may also refer to: People * Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader Coat of arms or weapons *Armaments or weapons **Firearm **Small arms *Coat of arms **In this sense, "arms" is a common element in pub names Enterprises *Amherst Regional Middle School *Arms Corporation, originally named Dandelion, a defunct Japanese animation studio who operated from 1996 to 2020 *TRIN (finance) or Arms Index, a short-term stock trading index *Australian Relief & Mercy Services, a part of Youth With A Mission Arts and entertainment *ARMS (band), an American indie rock band formed in 2004 * ''Arms'' (album), a 2016 album by Bell X1 * "Arms" (song), a 2011 song by Christina Perri from the album ''lovestrong'' * ''Arms'' (video game), a 2017 fighting video game for the Nintendo Switch *ARMS Charity Concerts, a series of charitable rock concerts in support of Action into Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hercule Mériadec, Duke Of Rohan-Rohan
Hercule Mériadec de Rohan (8 May 1669 – 26 January 1749), styled Duke of Rohan-Rohan (from 1717), was a member of the princely House of Rohan. He married twice and was the grandfather of the Maréchal de Soubise. His first wife was the daughter of Madame de Ventadour. He is known in contemporary texts as the ''prince de Rohan''. Biography Born in Paris, he was the fourth of eleven children of François de Rohan and Anne Julie de Rohan, whose marriage gave rise to the Soubise line of the House of Rohan. His family claimed ancestry from the reigning Dukes of Brittany and at the French court were allowed the rank of Foreign Prince. This entitled them to the style of ''Highness'' and other privileges at court. His mother was one-time mistress of Louis XIV. At the time, it was suspected that his younger brother Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan was in fact fathered by Louis XIV. Hercule Mériadec's mother bought the Lordship of Soubise to the family, styling themselves as ''Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François, Prince Of Soubise
François de Rohan (1630 – 24 August 1712) was a member of the House of Rohan and founder of the House of Soubise. His wife Anne Julie de Rohan was the one-time mistress of Louis XIV and mother of François's own eleven children. Prince of Soubise jure uxoris, he was also the Lord of Frontenay and of Ponghes. The title of Prince of Soubise was created in 1667 when the ''sirerie'' of Soubise, Charente-Maritime was raised to a principality for the cadet branch of the House of Rohan, and de Rohan raised to prince. François would be succeeded by three further princes before the male line of Rohan-Soubise became extinct. Biography François was born to Hercule de Rohan and his wife . His father had been married twice, and François was the only son born from the second marriage. His older sister was Marie de Rohan, wife of the Duke of Chevreuse, Duke of Luynes and a key figure of the Fronde, the great civil war which threatened the power of the monarchy. His older brother was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Geneviève De Lévis
Anne Geneviève de Lévis (February 1673 – 20 March 1727) was a French noblewoman. She was Princess of Turenne by her first marriage and Duchess of Rohan-Rohan, Princess of Soubise by her second marriage. Anne Geneviève was the only child of Madame de Ventadour, governess of the young Louis XV. She married twice and had children with her second husband. She died in Paris aged 44. Biography Anne Geneviève was the only child of Louis Charles de Lévis and his wife Charlotte de La Motte Houdancourt. Her parents had married in 1671 in Paris. Her father was the Duke of Ventadour and governor of the Limousin (1647–1717). While unmarried, she was styled as ''Mademoiselle de Ventadour''. As she had no siblings, her father made her his heiress. He died in 1717 and she succeeded to his lands which passed to the House of Rohan. The Dukedom of Ventadour however was extinct. In 1689, according to the memoirs of the ''marquis de Dangeau'', Anne Geneviève was a proposed bride fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Sophie De Courcillon
Marie Sophie de Courcillon (6 August 1713 – 4 April 1756) was a French salonnière, Duchess of Rohan-Rohan and Princess of Soubise by marriage. She was the granddaughter of Philippe de Courcillon, better known as the ''marquis de Dangeau''. She was praised for being a cultured woman for the age and held a fashionable ''salon'' at the Hôtel de Soubise in Paris. She was painted by Nattier. Biography Marie Sophie was the only child of Philippe Egon de Courcillon (1684–1709) styled as the ''marquis de Courcillon'' and his wife Françoise de Pompadour, Duchess of La Valette. Her paternal grandfather was Philippe de Courcillon, the famous ''marquis de Dangeau'' and memoir writer of the court of Louis XIV. Through her paternal grandmother, Countess Sophia Marie Wilhelmine of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort,Sophia was a lady in waiting to Marie Anne Victoire of Bavaria, wife of ''le Grand Dauphin'' she was a cousin of the ruling Princes of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort, origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules, Prince Of Soubise
Jules François Louis de Rohan (16 January 1697 – 6 May 1724) was a French nobleman and Prince of Soubise. He died of smallpox aged twenty-seven. Biography Born in Paris to Hercule Mériadec de Rohan and his wife Anne Geneviève de Lévis, as a member of the House of Rohan, he was entitled to the style of Highness. His mother was the only child of Madame de Ventadour. At the age of seventeen, he married Anne Julie de Melun. The couple were wed in Paris on 16 September 1714. His wife was a daughter of Louis de Melun and Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, herself a great granddaughter of Henry IV of France and were the parents of five children. In May 1724, he and his wife caught smallpox. Jules was first to succumb to the illness and was followed by his wife on 18 May. Issue *Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise, Duke of Rohan-Rohan (16 July 1715 – 4 July 1787) married Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne (1722–1739) and had issue; married again to Princess Ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Julie De Melun
Anne Julie de Melun (Anne Julie Adélaïde; 1698 – 18 May 1724) was a French court office holder. She served as deputy Governess of the Children of France. Biography Born in 1698, she was baptised with the names Anne Julie Adélaïde and was known as ''Anne Julie''. Born as the second of two children to Louis de Melun, Prince d'Epinoy, and his wife Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, ''princesse de Lillebonne'', and thus member of House of Melun. Her brother Louis de Melun disappeared in 1724, two months after her death. She was the Lady of Boubers in her own right. The peerage was confiscated in 1789. At the age of roughly fifteen, she married Jules, Prince of Soubise. The couple were wed in Paris on 16 September 1714. Her husband was a member of the Princely House of Rohan and with the marriage, Anne Julie took on the style of ''Her Highness''. She and her husband were second cousins. Anne Julie was an under governess to the children of France working with Madame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles De Rohan, Prince Of Soubise, Marshal Of France - Versailles MV 1098
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles, Prince Of Soubise
Charles de Rohan (16 July 17151 July 1787), Prince of Soubise, Duke of Rohan-Rohan, Seigneur of Roberval, and Marshal of France from 1758, was a soldier, and minister to kings Louis XV and Louis XVI. He was the last male of his branch of the House of Rohan, and was great-grandfather to the Duke of Enghien, executed by Napoleon in 1804. Styled ''Prince d'Epinoy'' at birth, he became the Prince of Soubise after 1749. Biography The prince was born at the Palace of Versailles on 16 July 1715, the son of Jules, Prince of Soubise, lieutenant captain of the Gendarmes of the Royal Guard, and of Anne Julie Adélaïde de Melun. The eldest of five children, he was styled the Prince of Epinoy till his father's death in 1724. His parents died in Paris of smallpox in 1724, remaining his siblings, including Marie Louise, making them orphans. His sister lost her husband to smallpox in 1743. He was entrusted to his grandfather Hercule Mériadec, Duke of Rohan-Rohan, who raised Soubise to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Marie Louise De La Tour D'Auvergne
Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne (1 August 1722 – 19 September 1739) was a French noblewoman and the wife of Charles de Rohan. She was Marchioness of Gordes and Countess of Moncha in her own right as well as Princess of Soubise by marriage. She died aged seventeen in childbirth. Biography Born at the Hôtel de Bouillon to Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon and his third wife Anne Marie Christiane de Simiane, she was the couple's only child. Her mother died 8 August 1722, seven days after giving birth to Anne Marie. Her father was a son of Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon and Marie Anne Mancini, the latter was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin and a famous salon hostess in her day. Styled as ''Mademoiselle de Bouillon'', she had been promised to Charles de Rohan since the age of eleven. The peerage was confiscated in 1789. He was seven years older than she and was the eldest son of Jules de Rohan, ''Prince of Soubise'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Therese Of Savoy
Anne Thérèse of Savoy (1 November 1717 – 5 April 1745) was a Savoyard princess born in Paris, France. She was the second wife of Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise, a military leader and friend of Louis XV. She was also a first half-cousin of Louis sharing the same grandfather Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia. Biography Born at the Parisian ''Hôtel de Soissons'', she was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Savoy. Her father was the Prince di Carignano. Through her mother, she was a granddaughter of the then king Victor Amadeus of Sicily.The Kingdom of Sicily was exchanged for the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1720 when Anne Thérèse was three years old Her mother was Maria Vittoria Francesca, legittimata di Savoia, Marchesa di Susa, a legitimised daughter of Victor Amadeus II and his ''maîtresse-en-titre'', Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes. She grew up in Paris, their parents fleeing the court of Savoy due to embarrassingly large debts. Their parents arrived in Paris du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landgravine Viktoria Of Hesse-Rotenburg
Princess Victoria of Hesse-Rotenburg (Anna Victoria Maria Christina; 25 February 1728 – 1 July 1792) was a princess of Hesse by birth, and the Princess of Soubise by marriage. Her husband was a renowned French commander, known as the ''Maréchal de Soubise''. She died without descendants. Early life Born in Rotenburg an der Fulda to Joseph, Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Rotenburg and his wife Princess Christine Anna Luise Oswaldine of Salm, she was the eldest of four children. Marriage She married Charles de Rohan, ''prince de Soubise'' on 23 December 1745 at the château des Rohan in Saverne. He was head of the cadet branch of the wealthy and powerful House of Rohan, which, enjoyed the rank of '' princes étrangers'' at the court of Versailles. Later life Her husband was a two-time widower, having been married first to Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne (1722–1739), and secondly to Princess Anne Thérese of Savoy-CarignanDaughter of Victor Amadeus, Prince of Carign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
