Louis Marie, Duke of Rohan

Louis Marie Bretagne Dominique de Rohan-Chabot, 5th Duke of Rohan, Roquelaure and Lude (17 January 1710 – 28 November 1791), was a French aristocrat and soldier.

Louis
Duke of Rohan
Born	(1710-01-17)17 January 1710 Paris, France
Died	28 November 1791(1791-11-28) (aged 81) Nice, France
Spouse	Olympe de Châtillon ​ ​ (m. 1735; died 1753)​ Charlotte de Crussol d'Uzès ​ ​ (m. 1758; died 1791)​
Names Louis Marie Bretagne Dominique de Rohan-Chabot
House	Rohan
Father	Louis Bretagne Alain de Rohan-Chabot
Mother	Françoise de Roquelaure

Early life

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 of Our Lady of Good Help), Charlotte Félicité de Rohan-Chabot (wife of José Diego Gutiérrez de los Ríos, Count of Fernán Núñez), Louis Auguste de Rohan-Chabot (who later became Viscount of Chabot in 1751, and 8th Count of Jarnac).^[1]

Career

Lieutenant General of the King's Armies (French: Lieutenant Général des armées), he was confirmed, as were his descendants, by King Louis XV in his right to be treated as "cousin of the king".^[2]

He was perhaps the most popular of the Lords of Blain. Affected in his prestige by the Affair of the Queen's Necklace, saddened by the ruin of a Rohan, Jules, Prince of Guéméné, who by his prodigality had made a bankruptcy of 33 million, he had retired to his estate in Nice.^[2]

Personal life

In 1735, he married Olympe de Châtillon (1719–1753), only daughter of the Duke of Châtillon, Governor of the Dauphin. Before her death, they were the parents of:^[1]

• Marie-Rosalie de Rohan-Chabot (1741–174), who died young.^[2]
• Catherine-Sophie de Rohan-Chabot (1743–1757), who died young.^[2]
• Louis-Bretagne-Charles de Rohan-Chabot (1747–1757), who died young.^[2]

In 1758, he married, for the second time, to Charlotte de Crussol d'Uzès (1732-1791), only daughter of Charles Emmanuel de Crussol, 8th Duke of Uzès and Émilie de La Rochefoucauld (the daughter of François de La Rochefoucauld, 4th Duke of La Rochefoucauld).^[3][4] Charlotte was a friend of Marie-Thérèse, Marquise de La Ferté-Imbault.^[2]

The duke died in exile in Nice on 28 November 1791. As all of his children predeceased him, his heir was his cousin Louis-Antoine de Rohan-Chabot.^[2]

References

1. Legouais, Francis (1 January 1974). Des macles des Rohan au bonnet républicain: Nantes, Blain, Le Gavre (in French). FeniXX. p. 5. ISBN 978-2-402-55889-1. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
2. Beauchet-Filleau, Henri (1892). Généalogie de la Maison de Chabot et de Rohan-Chabot (in French). Oudin et Cie. pp. 15–20. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
3. L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux (in French). 1996. p. 105. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
4. Chapman, Sara E. (2004). Private Ambition and Political Alliances: The Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain Family and Louis XIV's Government, 1650-1715. University of Rochester Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-58046-153-5. Retrieved 3 October 2024.

French nobility
Preceded by Louis Bretagne Alain de Rohan-Chabot	Duke of Rohan 1738–1791	Succeeded by Louis Antoine de Rohan-Chabot