Jules de Rohan 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

Anne Geneviève de Lévis

Anne Geneviève de Lévis was a French noblewoman. She was Duchess of Rohan-Rohan and Princess of Soubise by marriage. Anne Geneviève was the only child of Madame de Ventadour, governess of the young Louis XV. She married twice and had children with her second husband...

, 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

Madame de Ventadour

Charlotte de La Motte Houdancourt, Duchess of Ventadour was the governess of King Louis XV of France, great-grandson of King Louis XIV. She is credited with saving Louis XV from the ministrations of the royal doctors when he was ill as a child...

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At the age of sixteen, he married Anne Julie de Melun

Anne Julie de Melun

Anne Julie de Melun was a French noblewoman and mother of Charles de Rohan, the famous general of Louis XV as well as Madame de Marsan. She died of smallpox in her twenties.-Biography:...

. The couple were wed in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 on 16 September 1714. His wife was a daughter of Louis de Melun and Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine

Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine

Élisabeth de Lorraine-L'islebonne was a French noblewoman and the Princess of Epinoy by marriage. She is often styled as the princesse de Lillebonne...

, herself a great grand daughter of Henry IV of France

Henry IV of France

Henry IV , Henri-Quatre, was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was the first monarch of the Bourbon branch of the Capetian dynasty in 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

Smallpox

Smallpox was an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. The disease is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera, which is a derivative of the Latin varius, meaning "spotted", or varus, meaning "pimple"...

. Jules was first to succumb to the illness and was followed by his wife on 18 May.

Issue

• Charles de Rohan
  Charles, Prince of Soubise
  Charles de Rohan , duke of Rohan-Rohan, seigneur of Roberval, and marshal of France from 1758, was a military man, a minister to the kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, and a notorious libertine. The last male of his branch of the House of Rohan, he was also the great grandfather to the duc d'Enghien,...
  
  , Prince of Soubise
  Prince of Soubise
  -Prince of Soubise:...
  
  , Duke of Rohan-Rohan (16 July 1715–4 July 1787) married Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne
  Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne
  Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne was a French noblewoman and the wife of Charles de Rohan. She was Marchioness of Gordes and Countess of Moncha in her own right as well as Princess of Soubise by marriage...
  
   (1722–1739) and had issue; married again to Princess Anna Teresa of Savoy (1717–1745) and had issue; married Landgravine Anna Viktoria of Hesse-Rotenburg (1728–1792) no issue;
• François Armand Auguste de Rohan, cardinal de Soubise, Prince of Tournon (1 December 1717–28 Juin 1758)
• Marie Louise de Rohan (7 January 1720–4 March 1803) married Gaston Jean Baptiste de Lorraine, Count of Marsan, no issue; brother of Mademoiselle de Marsan.
• François Auguste de Rohan, Count of Tournon (16 September 1721–6 August 1736) never married;
• René de Rohan, Abbot of Luxeuil (26 July 1723–7 February 1743) never married.

Ancestry

Titles and styles

• 16 January 1697 – 6 May 1724 His Highness the Prince of Soubise