Anne de Rohan (1606-1685)

Biography

It had only five months when her mother while dying, intended it for her first cousin, wire of Hercules de Rohan, Louis de Rohan. It was promised in marriage to him to twelve years, in 1617. The husband was disgracieux. Beginning 1619, it marries Louis de Rohan - “Mr Guéméné” - of which it will have two wire:

Charles, born in July 1633, qualified of baron de Mortiercrolles, deceased insane in Belgium in 1699;
Louis, known as the Knight of Rohan , born in 1635 and which will be high with Louis XIV.

It enters later to the court of the king Louis XIII, or, in company of his/her cousin and her sister-in-law the Duchesse of Chevreuse, it carries out a life of galantery and intrigues. Anne passed her youth in connections and affairs and carried misfortune to all her sighing. Misters de Montmorency, of Boutteville, and François de Thou died on the scaffold; the count de Soissons was assassinated.

The princess wanted to convert. In 1640, allured by the Jansénisme, it joined the Abbaye of Port-Royal. The abbot of Saint-Cyran wrote for it a Payment of Life , and Antoine Arnauld the book of the Fréquente Communion . But the Sling rejected the neophyte in the intrigues.

Widow in 1667, it inherits with whole share Holy-Moor, $the Hague and Nouâtre.

In 1674, Louis, his puîné son, is interfered very close with a plot which aims anything less than setting-up Republic and to have tried to deliver to the Dutchmen the port Quilleboeuf. In spite of the memories of childhood which bind them, Louis XIV the fact of condemning to dead and it is decapitated in Paris the November 27th 1674.

The unhappy mother by a new will of January 20th, 1678, taking care of the conservation of the state of such a large house , leaves to the imperceptible squanderer only one revenue of 6.000# and bequeathed the property of all her goods to her grandchildren.

Anne de Rohan withdraws world then and survives the manor of Supposed, close to Rochefort (in Yvelines) where she dies the March 13rd 1685.

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