Jules, Prince of Guéméné

Prince of Guéméné
Jules
Prince of Guéméné
Born(1726-03-25)25 March 1726
Paris, France
Died10 December 1788(1788-12-10) (aged 62)
Belgium
SpouseMarie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne
Issue
Detail
Henri Louis, Prince of Guéméné
Names
Jules Hercule Mériadec de Rohan
HouseRohan
FatherHercule Mériadec, Prince of Guéméné
MotherLouise Gabrielle Julie de Rohan

Jules de Rohan (Jules Hercule Mériadec; 25 March 1726 – 10 December 1788) was Prince of Guéméné.[1] Born in Paris, he died in Carlsbourg in the Walloon Region of Belgium.

Biography

Jules was the oldest son of Hercule Mériadec, Prince of Guéméné (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 second cousin, Victoire de Rohan, daughter of Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise and Anne Therese of Savoy.

The Prince of Guéméné died in Belgium in 1788.[2] His son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren fled to Bohemia before the French Revolution.

Issue

Ancestry

Ancestors of Jules, Prince of Guéméné
8. Charles II, Prince of Guéméné
4. Charles de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné
9. Jeanne Armande de Schomberg
2. Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné
10. Charles de Cochefilet, Count of Vauvineux
5. Charlotte Élisabeth de Cochefilet
11. Françoise Angélique Aubéry
1. Jules de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné
12. François de Rohan, Prince of Soubise
6. Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Duke of Rohan-Rohan
13. Anne de Rohan-Chabot, Princess of Soubise
3. Louise Gabrielle Julie de Rohan
14. Louis Charles de Lévis, Duke of Ventadour
7. Anne Geneviève de Lévis
15. Charlotte de La Motte Houdancourt

References

  1. ^ Levantal, Christophe (1996). Ducs et pairs et duchés-pairies laïques à l'époque moderne : (1519-1790): dictionnaire prosographique, généalogique, chronologique, topographique et heuristique (in French). Eitions Maisonneuve & Larose. pp. 770–771. ISBN 978-2-7068-1219-4.
  2. ^ Leroy, Stéphen (1896). Notice armoríale & généalogique sur la maison de Bouillon-La Tour: accompagnée de tableaux généalogiques (in French). E. Jourdan. pp. 114, 157–159.