Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise
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| Born |
16 July 1715 Palace of Versailles, France |
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| Died | 1 July 1787 (aged 71) Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, France |
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Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne Princess Anne Thérèse of Savoy Landgravine Victoria of Hesse-Rotenburg |
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Charlotte, Princess of Condé Victoire, Princess of Guéménée |
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| Father | Jules, Prince of Soubise | ||||
| Mother | Anne Julie de Melun | ||||
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| Charles de Rohan |
Charles de Rohan (16 July 1715 – 1 July 1787), duke of Rohan-Rohan, seigneur of Roberval, and marshal of France from 1758, was a military man, and a minister to the kings Louis XV and Louis XVI. The last male of his branch of the House of Rohan, he was also the great-grandfather to the duc d'Enghien, executed by Napoleon in 1804. Styled prince d'Epinoy at birth, he became the Prince of Soubise after 1749.
The prince was born at Versailles on 16 January 1715, the son of Jules, Prince of Soubise, lieutenant captain of the gendarmes of the Royal Guard, and of Anne Julie Adélaïde de Melun. The eldest of five children, he was styled the Prince of Epinoy till his father's death in 1724.
His parents died in Paris of smallpox in 1724, remaining his siblings, including Marie Louise, making them orphans. His sister lost her husband to smallpox in 1743.
He was entrusted to his grandfather Hercule Mériadec, Duke of Rohan-Rohan, who raised Soubise to the court, where he became the companion of Louis XV, who was the same age as he. One of his great grandmothers was Madame de Ventadour, via his paternal grandmother Anne Geneviève de Lévis; Madame de Ventadour, who died in 1744, was close to her great grandson.
He accompanied Louis XV in the campaign of 1744-1748 and attained high military rank, which owed more to his courtiership than to his generalship.
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