House of Rohan-Chabot - Wikipedia
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| House of Rohan-Chabot Maison de Rohan-Chabot | |
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| Parent house | House of Rohan (enatic) House of Chabot (agnatic) |
| Place of origin |  Kingdom of France |
| Founded | 1645; 380 years ago |
| Founder | Henri Chabot |
| Current head | Josselin de Rohan-Chabot, 14th Duke of Rohan |
| Titles | See list |
| Estate(s) | Josselin Castle |
The House of Rohan-Chabot (French: Maison de Rohan-Chabot) is a French noble family. It was established as a result of the marriage in 1645 between Henri Chabot and Marguerite de Rohan, the sole heir of the Duchy of Rohan. The Rohan-Chabot family is the eldest branch of the House of Chabot, a French noble family originally from Poitou.
The Rohan-Chabot family was founded by Henri Chabot (1616–1655), Lord of Saint-Aulaye (son of Henriette de Lur and her husband Charles Chabot, Lord of Saint-Gelais, Saint-Aulaye, a younger son of the Jarnac family), who married in 1645 Marguerite de Rohan (1617–1684), only child and heir of Henry II of Rohan, first Duke of Rohan (1603).[1][2]
Following his marriage, Henri Chabot was created Duke of Rohan and Peer of France in 1648 by Cardinal Mazarin, during the reign of King Louis XIV.[1]
- Louis-François-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot (1788–1833), 8th Duke of Rohan and peer of France, Imperial Count. He married Armandine de Sérent in 1808 and became a widower * Josselin-Charles-Louis-Jean-Marie de Rohan-Chabot (born 1938), 14th Duke of Rohan, senator of Morbihan until 2011, President of the Regional Council of Brittany until 2004.
- Guy Auguste de Rohan-Chabot (1683–1760), a.k.a. the Knight of Rohan, Maréchal de camp in 1719, lieutenant general of the King's armies in 1734. He had Voltaire beaten following a quarrel at Adrienne Lecouvreur’s house. Seeking revenge, Voltaire was sent to the Bastille on the Duke's order, at the Cardinal of Rohan's request.
- Philippe-Ferdinand-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot (1815–1875), ambassador of the French Republic in the United Kingdom. He was the commissioner appointed by King Louis-Philippe to proceed to the exhumation of Napoleon I’s body in Saint Helena and its repatriation to France in 1840.
Quartered: 1 and 4 gules, nine mascles or put 3, 3, 3 (which is Rohan); 2 and 3 or, three chabots gules put in pale (which is Chabot).[1]
The house of Rohan-Chabot received the following titles:[1]
- Duke of Rohan and peer of France by letters patent (December 1648), confirmed in 1704
- Count of the Holy Roman Empire (1810)
- Hereditary peer of France (1814 and 1815)
- Duke and peer (1817)
- Duke of Ravese par bref pontifical du 3 août 1908 (éteint en 1964)
The heir of the title Duke of Rohan traditionally bears the title Prince of Léon in his father's lifetime[1] (courtesy title adopted in the 16th century by the Rohan family, who owned the Lordship of Léon, which was only called a viscounty in the Middle-Ages[4]).
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Anne de Rohan-Chabot (1648-1709), Princess of Soubise
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Jeanne Pélagie de Rohan-Chabot (1659-1698)
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Louis-Antoine de Rohan-Chabot (1733-1807), Duke of Rohan, lieutenant general, Knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit
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Louis-François de Rohan-Chabot (1788-1833), Duke of Rohan, Archbishop of Auch, then Besançon, Cardinal
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Josselin de Rohan-Chabot (1879-1916), Duke of Rohan, deputy of Morbihan
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Notes and references
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- ^ a b c d e Fernand de Saint-Simon, Etienne de Séréville, Dictionnaire de la noblesse française, 1975 p. 870
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Henri Jougla de Morenas, Grand Armorial de France, Paris, vol. 2 p. 366, read online
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Henri Frotier de La Messelière, Filiations Bretonnes, vol. 1, 1912, St-Brieuc, p. 546
- ^ Bulletin de la Société héraldique et généalogique de France, 1879 p. 275, read online
- Gustave Chaix d'Est-Ange, Dictionnaire des familles françaises anciennes ou notables à la fin du XIXème siècle, 1910, vol. IX, p. 174-179 read online.
- Régis Valette, Catalogue de la noblesse française au XXIème siècle, Robert Laffont, 2007.
- Georges Martin, Histoire et génealogie des maisons de Chabot et de Rohan-Chabot, 1996, Lyon.