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Born at the Hôtel de la rue du Temple in Paris, to Henri Chabot and his wife Marguerite de Rohan, Louis was the fifth of six children and their only surviving son. [1] His parents' marriage had caused a scandal; his mother Marguerite was a Foreign Princess as a member of the House of Rohan, [2] and her wedding plans had caused Louis XIV to issue a decree that she was permitted to marry Henri ...
The House of Rohan (Breton: Roc'han) is a Breton family of viscounts, later dukes and princes in the French nobility, coming from the locality of Rohan in Brittany.Their line descends from the viscounts of Porhoët and is said to trace back to the legendary Conan Meriadoc.
Louis-Antoine-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, 6th Duke of Rohan (20 April 1733 – 29 November 1807), Prince, Count and Baron of Léon, Duke of Chabot, then 6th Duke of Rohan in 1791, was a French aristocrat and general officer.
Rohan-Chabot was born on 17 January 1710 in Paris. He was the eldest son, and heir, of Louis Bretagne Alain de Rohan-Chabot and Françoise de Roquelaure.Among his younger siblings were Louise Armande Julie de Rohan-Chabot (wife of Daniel François de Gelas de Voisin, Count of Lautrec), Louis François de Rohan-Chabot (Abbot of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte), Marie Armande de Rohan-Chabot (Prioress ...
Victoire Armande Josèphe de Rohan (1743–1807); married Henri Louis Marie de Rohan, Prince of Guéménée, who was a cousin. Victoire was later the governess to the daughter of Marie Antoinette . After Anne Thérèse died in 1745, Charles married that same year Princess Anna Viktoria of Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg (1728–1792).
Louis de Rohan was a member of the palace cabal opposed to the Austrian alliance. This party was headed by the Duc d'Aiguillon who, in 1771, sent Rohan on a special embassy to find out what was being done in Vienna with regard to the partition of Poland. Rohan arrived at Vienna in January 1772, and made a great spectacle of himself with his ...
Henri de Rohan: René II, Viscount of Rohan 21 August 1579 7 February 1605 7 August 1603 Rohan raised from viscountcy: 13 April 1638 Marguerite de Béthune Marguerite de Rohan suo jure: Henri, Duke of Rohan 1617 6 June 1645 13 April 1638 father's death: 9 April 1684 Henri Chabot [1] Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became Duke Ceased to be Duke
Catherine de Parthenay, Viscountess and Princess of Rohan (1554–1631) was a French noblewoman, mathematician, philosopher, poet, playwright, and translator. [3] [4] She studied with the mathematician François Viète and was considered one of the most brilliant women of the era.