Jacqueline de Rohan, Marquise de Rothelin (c. 1520 – 1587) was a French court official and aristocrat. She was the daughter of Charles de Rohan and

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, and regent of the Neufchâtel and of

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during the minority of her son Leonor, Duke de Longueville, Duke d' Estouteville.

Biography

Jacqueline was the daughter of Charles de Rohan and

, and regent of the Neufchâtel and of

during the minority of her son Leonor, Duke de Longueville, Duke d' Estouteville. She served as lady-in-waiting to both

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( fille d'honneur 1531-1536 and

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1538-1543) and

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. Her husband, Francois of Orleans-Longueville, Marquis de Rothelin, died on 25 October 1548, and in watching her son Leonor's interests in

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she was brought into contact with the reformers in Switzerland. She then embraced

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and turned her

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at Blandy, in Brie, into a refuge for

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. In 1567 she underwent a term of imprisonment at the

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for harbouring Protestants.

Marriage and children

On 19 June 1536, at

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, Jacqueline married François of Orléans-Longueville, Marquis de Rothelin, Prince of Chalet-Aillon, Viscount of Melun (2 March 1513 – 25 October 1548), son of

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, Duke of Neufchatel and Johanna of Baden-Hochberg, Countess of Neufchatel and Margravine of Rothelin, with whom she had: # Leonor, Duke de Longueville, Duke d' Estouteville, Prince of the Blood (1540–1573), married in 1563, Marie d'Estouteville #

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(5 April 1549 – 11 June 1601), who was born posthumously. On 8 November 1565, she married Huguenot leader

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, as his second wife, by whom she had issue.

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