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

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.
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