Jules de Rohan (Jules Hercule Mériadec; 25 March 1726 – 10 December 1800) was
Prince of Guéméné. Born in Paris, he died in
Carlsbourg.
Biography
Jules was the oldest son of
Hercule Mériadec, Prince of Guéméné
Hercule Mériadec de Rohan (13 November 1688 – 21 December 1757) was a ''prince étranger'' and the sixth Duke of Montbazon in France, "Prince de Guéméne" being the title he bore prior to inheriting the dukedom.
Lineage
Born to Charles de ...
(1688–1757) and
Louise Gabrielle Julie de Rohan (1704–1741), daughter of
Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Prince of Soubise and
Anne Geneviève de Lévis
On 10 February 1743 he married
Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne (1725–1793), daughter of
Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne,
Duke of Bouillon (1706–1771) and
Maria Karolina Sobieska.
Jules and Marie Louise had only one son,
Henri Louis de Rohan, who married a cousin,
Victoire de Rohan, daughter of
Charles de Rohan, 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 Hou ...
and
Anne Therese of Savoy.
The Prince of Guéméné died in
Belgium aged 74, his son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren fled to
Bohemia
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before the
French Revolution, his wife having predeceased him in 1788.
Issue
*
Henri Louis Marie de Rohan
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People with this given name
; French noblemen
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, Duke of Montbazon, Prince of Guéméné (31 August 1745–1809) married
Victoire de Rohan and had issue; she was the sister of the
Princess of Condé
Princess of Condé
See also
*Duchess of Bourbon
*Duchess of Guise
Lady of Guise Non hereditary, 950–?
Elder House of Guise, ?–1185
House of Avesnes, 1185–1244
House of Châtillon, 1244–1404
House of Valois-Anjou, 1404–14 ...
and posthumous step daughter of
Madame de Soubise.
Siblings
Hercule Mériadec and Louise Gabrielle's children:
*Charlotte Louise de Rohan, Mademoiselle de Rohan (12 March 1722 – October 1786) married
Vittorio Filippo Ferrero Fieschi, Prince of
Masserano and had issue
*''Généviève'' Armande Elisabeth de Rohan, Abbess of Marquette (18 November 1724 – 1766) never married
*Marie Louise de Rohan (1728 – 31 May 1737) died in infancy
*''
Louis Armand'' Constantin de Rohan, Prince de Montbazon (18 April 1731 – 24 July 1794) married Gabrielle Rosalie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, daughter of
François Victor Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
François Victor Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (17 April 1686 – 7 January 1743 in Issy) was a French nobleman. He was minister for war twice under Louis XV. He was also chancelier, garde des sceaux de la Maison de la reine and commander, provos ...
, no issue; Louis Armand was guillotined in the revolution
*
Louis René Édouard de Rohan, Cardinal de Rohan (25 September 1734 – 16 February 1803)
Archbishop of Strasbourg
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Bishops and prince-bishops
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*Justinus vo ...
, no issue
*
''Ferdinand'' Maximilien Mériadec de Rohan,
Archbishop of Cambrai (7 November 1738 – 30 October 1813) had illegitimate children with
Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, daughter of
Charles Edward Stuart
Charles Edward Louis John Sylvester Maria Casimir Stuart (20 December 1720 – 30 January 1788) was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart, grandson of James II and VII, and the Stuart claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland and ...
and
Clementina Walkinshaw
Ancestry
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1726 births
1800 deaths
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18th-century French nobility
19th-century French nobility
Nobility from Paris
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