Henri Louis, Prince of Guéméné

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Jules
Prince of Guéméné
Born (1745-08-30)30 August 1745
Paris, France
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Prague, Czech Republic
Spouse Victoire de Rohan
Issue
Detail
Charles Alain, Prince of Guéméné
Marie Louise Joséphine, Princess of Rochefort
Louis Victor, Duke of Bouillon
Full name
Henri Louis Marie de Rohan
House House of Rohan
Father Jules, Prince of Guéméné
Mother Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne

Henri Louis de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné (Henri Louis Marie; 30 August 1745 – 24 April 1809), was a French courtier and the penultimate Grand Chamberlain of France.

Biography

Henri Louis was born in Paris, a member of the House of Rohan, which claimed ancestry relating to the Dukes of Brittany. He was the only son of the family's main branch chief, Jules Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné, whereas his mother Marie Louise Henriette Jeanne de La Tour d'Auvergne (daughter of Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne) had an illegitimate child with her lover, Charles Edward Stuart.

Jules Hercule gave his surname to his wife's son, however Charles Godefroy de Rohan (1748–1820) was handed over to his paternal family, the Stuarts.[1]

On 15 January 1761, he married his second cousin, Victoire Armande Josèphe de Rohan, daughter of Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise and Princess Anna Teresa of Savoy. The couple had five children, four of whom survived into adult age. The family owned the Hôtel de Rohan-Guémené on the Place des Vosges.

In 1775 Henri Louis was appointed Grand Chamberlain of France by Louis XVI, inasmuch as his uncle Godefroy Charles Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, duke of Bouillon gave up that charge. The Princess of Guéméné also inherited a charge; she was appointed Governess of Royal Children.

From 1780's on Henri Louis and his family was involved in personal and political scandals. In 1782, Henri Louis's mistress, Countess Thérèse Lucy de Dillon, the first wife of Arthur Dillon and a friend of his wife, succumbed to tuberculosis at 30 years; in the same year the Prince declared bankruptcy, with a debt of 33 million livres. He and Victoire abdicated their charges at the court and left Versailles. Their proprieties were sold, including the Hôtel de Rohan-Guéméné and their Mansion at Montreuil.

At the death of his father in law, he was the legal heir to the title Prince of Soubise.

During the French Revolution, Henri Louis and his father, wife and children fled to Habsburg Monarchy, where he in Prague died in 1809, at the age 63 years (later in 1820 his family bought Sychrov Castle, where they built residence). However, his mother was guillotined in 1793.

Issue

Ancestry

Family of Henri Louis, Prince of Guéméné
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Charles II de Rohan, Prince de Guéméné
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Charles III de Rohan, Prince de Guéméné
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Jeanne Armande de Schomberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Prince de Guéméné
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Charles de Cochefilet, Count of Vauvineux
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Charlotte Elizabeth de Cochefilet
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. -
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Jules Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. François de Rohan, Prince de Soubise
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Prince of Soubise
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Anne Julie de Rohan, Princess de Soubise
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Louise Gabrielle Julie de Rohan-Soubise
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Louis Charles de Lévis, Duke of Ventadour
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Anne Geneviève de Lévis
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Charlotte Éleonore de La Mothe-Houdancourt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Henri Louis Marie de Rohan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Emmanuel Theodose de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Marie Anne Mancini
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoille, Duke of Thouars
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Marie Armande Victoire de La Trémoille
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Madeleine de Qréquy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Marie Louise Henriette Jeanne de La Tour d'Auvergne
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Jan III Sobieski king of Poland
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Jakub Ludwik Sobieski
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Maria Karolina Sobieska
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Philipp Wilhelm von Neuburg, Elector Palatine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Elisabeth Amalie von Hesse-Darmstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. Henri Louis' mother was a mistress of Charles Edward Stuart, and Henri Louis' uncle, Ferdinand Maximilien Mériadec de Rohan, had three children with Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, an illegitimate daughter of Charles Edward Stuart by a different mistress.