Anne Julie de Melun

Undergoverness to the children of France
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroUndergoverness to the children of France
PlacesFrance
Gender
Female
BirthFrance
Death18 May 1724Paris
Family
Mother:Élisabeth Thérèse of Lorraine
Father:Louis Ier de Melun
Spouse:Jules Prince of Soubise
Children:Charles Prince of Soubise Cardinal de Soubise Marie Louise de Rohan
The details

Biography

Anne Julie de Melun (Anne Julie Adélaïde; 1698 – 18 May 1724) was a French noblewoman and mother of Charles de Rohan, the famous general of Louis XV as well as Madame de Marsan. She died of smallpox in her twenties.

Biography

Born in 1698, she was baptised with the names Anne Julie Adélaïde and was known as Anne Julie. Born to Louis de Melun, Prince d'Epinoy and his wife Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, princesse de Lillebonne she was the second of two children. 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. Her husbands parents were Hercule Mériadec, Duke of Rohan-Rohan and Anne Geneviève de Lévis.

She and her husband were second cousins. Anne Julie was an under governess to the children of France working with Madame de Ventadour, her husband's maternal grandmother.

The couple had five children in all. She and her husband died in Paris of smallpox. Her eldest son Charles succeeded as Prince of Soubise. Her brother's disappearance, led to the Principality of Epinoy (previously enjoyed by Anne Julie's father) was given to her son, Charles.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Anne Julie de Melun
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Pierre de Melun, Prince of Epinoy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Guillaume de Melun, Prince of Epinoy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Hippolyte de Montmorency
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Alexandre Guillaume de Melun, Prince of Epinoy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Charles d'Arenberg, Prince of Arenberg, Duke of Aerschot
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Princesse Ernestine d'Arenberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Anne de Croÿ, Duchess of Aerschot & Croÿ
Daughter of Philipe de Croÿ, Duke of Aerschot
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2.Louis de Melun, Prince of Epinoy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Charles Chabot, Lord of Sainte-Aulaye
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Henri Chabot, Duke of Rohan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Henriette de Lur
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Jeanne Pélagie de Rohan-Chabot, Lady of Montlieu
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Henri, Duke of Rohan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Marguerite de Rohan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Marguerite de Béthune
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Anne Julie de Melun
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Charles I, Duke of Elbeuf
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Charles II, Duke of Elbeuf
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Marguerite de Chabot
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. François Marie de Lorraine, Prince of Lillebonne
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Henry IV of France
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Catherine Henriette de Bourbon, Légitimée de France
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Gabrielle d'Estrées
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, Princess of Lillebonne
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Francis II, Duke of Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Christina of Salm
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Anne de Lorraine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Claude François de Cusance, Baron of Belvoir
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Béatrix de Cusance
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Ernestine de Witthem, Countess of Walhain
 
 
 
 
 
 

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 Anna Teresa of Savoy (1717–1745) and had issue; married Anne Victoire de Hesse-Rotenburg (1728–1792) no issue;
  • François Armand Auguste de Rohan, cardinal de Soubise, Prince of Tournon (1 December 1717–28 Juin 1758)
  • Marie Louise Geneviève de Rohan (7 January 1720–4 March 1803) married Gaston Jean Baptiste de Lorraine, Count of Marsan, no issue;
  • François Auguste de Rohan, Count of Tournon (16 September 1721–6 August 1736) never married;
  • René de Rohan, Abbot of Luxeuil (26 July 1723–7 February 1743) never married.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

  • 1698 – 16 September 1714 Anne Julie de Melun
  • 16 September 1714 – 18 May 1724 Her Highness the Princess of Soubise

References and notes

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