Jules, Prince of Guéméné

Prince of Guemene
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroPrince of Guemene
wasPrince
Work fieldRoyals
Gender
Male
Birth25 March 1726, Paris
Death10 December 1800Paliseul (aged 74 years)
Family
Mother:Louise de Rohan
Father:Hercule Mériadec, Prince of Guéméné
Siblings:Ferdinand Maximilien Mériadec de Rohan Cardinal de Rohan Louis Armand Prince of Motbazon
Spouse:Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne
Children:Henri Louis Prince of Guéméné
The details

Biography

Jules de Rohan (Jules Hercule Mériadec; 25 March 1726 – 10 December 1800) was Prince of Guéméné. Born in Paris, he died in Carlsbourg. He was known as Jules.

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 cousin, Victoire de Rohan, daughter of Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise and Anne Therese of Savoy.

The Prince of Guéméné died in Belgium aged 74, his son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren fled to Bohemia before the French Revolution, but his wife was guillotined in 1793.

Issue

  • Henri Louis Marie de Rohan, 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 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 Amadeo Luiz 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, 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, 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 and Clementina Walkinshaw

Ancestry

Ancestors of Jules, Prince of Guéméné
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Louis VII, Prince of Guéméné
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Charles II, Prince of Guéméné
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Anne de Rohan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Charles de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Henri de Schomberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Jeanne Armande de Schomberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Anne de La Guiche
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. André de Cochefilet, Seigneur of Vauceslas
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Charles de Cochefilet, Count of Vauvineux
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Élisabeth de L'Aubespine, Lady of Vauvineux
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Charlotte Élisabeth de Cochefilet
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Robert Aubéry, Marquis of Vatan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Françoise Angélique Aubéry
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Claude de Prestreval, dame de Vatan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Jules de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Hercule de Rohan, Duke of Montbazon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. François de Rohan, Prince of Soubise
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Marie de Bretagne d'Avaugour
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Duke of Rohan-Rohan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Henri Chabot, Duke of Rohan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Anne de Rohan-Chabot, Princess of Soubise
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Marguerite de Rohan, Duchess of Rohan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Louise Gabrielle Julie de Rohan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Charles de Lévis, Duke of Ventadour
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Louis Charles de Lévis, Duke of Ventadour
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Marie de La Guiche
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Anne Geneviève de Lévis
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt, Duke of Cardona
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Charlotte de La Motte Houdancourt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Louise de Prie
 
 
 
 
 
 

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