Cardinal de Soubise

French Roman Catholic cardinal

Cardinal de Soubise

François-Armand-Auguste de Rohan-Soubise, Prince of Tournon, Prince of Rohan (1 December 1717, Paris – 28 June 1756, Saverne) was a French prelate, Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg. His parents, Anne Julie de Melun and Jules, Prince de Soubise, both died of smallpox when he was still a child.

## Biography[edit]

He received Holy Orders as a Catholic priest on 23 December 1741[1] and received the position of commendatory abbot first of the Abbey of Ventadour, which was succeeded by that of Saint-Epvre (in the Diocese of Toul) from 1736, and later added was that of Prince-Abbot of the Abbeys of Murbach and of Lure in 1737. He was elected to the Académie française on 15 July 1741.

A year later he was appointed coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Strasbourg. He was the great-nephew of the incumbent Prince-Bishop, Cardinal Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan, and was simultaneously named as the titular bishop in partibus of Ptolemais in Palestine (now Acre, Israel). He was consecrated a bishop on the following 4 November. He was made Grand Almoner of France in 1745 and a cardinal in 1747.

Upon the death of his great-uncle in 1749, he automatically became Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg and became commendatory abbot of the great Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu that same year, giving up that of Saint-Epvre.

He died in 1756 of tuberculosis.

## Siblings[edit]

* Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise, Duke of Rohan-Rohan (16 July 1715-4 July 1787) married Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne (1722–1739) and had issue; married again to Princess Anna Teresa of Savoy (1717–1745) and had issue; married Victoire of Hesse-Rotenburg (1728–1792) no issue;
* Marie Louise Geneviève de Rohan (7 January 1720-4 March 1803) married Gaston Jean Baptiste de Lorraine, Count of Marsan, no issue;
* François Auguste de Rohan, Count of Tournon (16 September 1721-6 August 1736) never married;
* René de Rohan, O.S.B., monk of the Abbey of Luxeuil (26 July 1723-7 February 1743) never married.

## Ancestry[edit]

Ancestors of Cardinal de Soubise

|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 16\. Hercule de Rohan, Duke of Montbazon

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| 8\. François de Rohan, Prince of Soubise|

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| 17\. Marie de Bretagne d'Avaugour

| 4\. Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Duke of Rohan-Rohan|

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| 18\. Henri Chabot, Duke of Rohan

| 9\. Anne de Rohan-Chabot, Princess of Soubise|

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| 19\. Marguerite de Rohan

| 2\. Jules de Rohan, Prince of Soubise|

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| 20\. Charles de Lévis, Duke of Ventadour

| 10\. Louis Charles de Lévis, Duke of Ventadour|

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| 21\. Marie de La Guiche

| 5\. Anne Geneviève de Lévis|

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| 22\. Philippe de La Mothe Houdancourt, Duke of Cardona

| 11\. Charlotte de La Motte Houdancourt|

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| 23\. Louise de Prie

| 1\. Armand de Rohan|
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| 24\. Guillaume de Melun, Prince of Epinoy

| 12\. Alexandre Guillaume de Melun, Prince of Epinoy|

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| 25\. Princesse Ernestine d'Arenberg

| 6\. Louis de Melun, Prince of Epinoy|

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| 26\. Henri Chabot, Duke of Rohan =18

| 13\. Jeanne Pelagie de Rohan-Chabot|

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| 27\. Marguerite de Rohan =19

| 3\. Anne Julie de Melun|

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| 28\. Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Elbeuf

| 14\. François Marie de Lorraine, Prince of Lillebonne|

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| 29\. Catherine Henriette de Bourbon, Légitimée de France, "Mademoiselle de Vendôme"

| 7\. Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine|

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| 30\. Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine

| 15\. Anne de Lorraine|

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| 31\. Béatrix de Cusance

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## See also[edit]

* House of Rohan
* Palais Rohan, Strasbourg

## References[edit]

1. ^ Catholic Hierarchy

## External links[edit]

* Académie française

Catholic Church titles

Preceded by

Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan

|  Bishop of Strasbourg
1749-1756  | Succeeded by

Charles Louis Constantin de Rohan-Guéménée

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