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Jules de Rohan, 3rd Prince of Soubise

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Jules
Prince of Soubise
Full name
Jules François Louis de Rohan
Noble familyHouse of Rohan
Spouse(s)Anne Julie de Melun
Issue
Detail
Charles, Prince of Soubise
Armand, cardinal de Soubise
Marie Louise, Countess of Marsan
FatherHercule Mériadec de Rohan
MotherAnne Geneviève de Lévis

Jules François Louis de Rohan (16 January 1697 – 6 May 1724) was a French nobleman and Prince of Soubise. He died of smallpox aged twenty-seven.

Biography

Born in Paris to Hercule Mériadec de Rohan and his wife Anne Geneviève de Lévis, as a member of the House of Rohan, he was entitled to the style of Highness. His mother was the only child of Madame de Ventadour.

At the age of sixteen, he married Anne Julie de Melun. The couple were wed in Paris on 16 September 1714. His wife was a daughter of Louis de Melun and Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, herself a great grand daughter of Henry IV of France. The couple married in Paris on 16 September 1714 and they were the parents of five children.

In May 1724, he and his wife caught smallpox. Jules was first to succumb to the illness and was followed by his wife on 18 May.

Issue

Ancestry

Family of Jules de Rohan, 3rd Prince of Soubise
16. Louis VI de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné
8. Hercule de Rohan, Duke of Montbazon
17. Éléonore de Rohan
4. François de Rohan, Prince of Soubise
18. Claude de Bretagne, Count of Vertus
9. Marie de Bretagne d'Avaugour
19. Catherine Fouquet de La Varenne
2. Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Duke of Rohan-Rohan
20. Léonor Chabot
10. Henri Chabot, Duke of Rohan
21. Marguerite de Durfort
5. Anne de Rohan-Chabot, Princess of Soubise
22. Henride Rohan, Duke of Rohan
11. Marguerite de Rohan
23. Marguerite de Béthune, Mademoiselle de Sull
1. Jules de Rohan, Prince of Soubise
24. Anne de Lévis, Duke of Ventadour
12. Charles de Lévis, Duke of Ventadour
25. Marguerite de Montmorency
6. Louis Charles de Lévis, Duke of Ventadour
26. -
13. Marie de La Guiche
27. -
3. Anne Geneviève de Lévis
28. Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt, Lord of La Mothe-Houdancourt
14. Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt, Duke of Cardona
29. Louise Charles du Plessis-Picquet
7. Charlotte de La Motte Houdancourt
30. -
15. Louise de Prie
31. -

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