Hercules de Rohan

Hercules de Rohan , duke of Montbazon (August 27th 1568 - October 16th 1654) and count of Rochefort-in-Yvelines, Even of France.

Biography

Dedicated servant of Henri III and Henri IV, knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit, general lieutenant in Brittany and governor of Nantes in 1598, it is Large huntsman of France of 1602 with 1643, then governor and lieutenant-general of Paris and the Île-de-France.

Wire of Louis VI of Rohan, it Marie in 1594 with Madeleine de Lenoncourt, girl of Henri de Lenoncourt, third of the name, lord of Coupevray and Francoise of Laval, sister of the Marshal of Wood-Dolphin and second wife of her father.

They had 2 children:

Louis VIII of Rohan Guémené, Prince de Guémené, less famous for itself than by its wife, Anne de Rohan (1606-1685) and her son, the Knight of Rohan
Marie de Rohan Guémené, which will become celebrates it duchess of Chevreuse.

Present in fits with body royal, Hercules is wounded at the time of the assassination of Henri IV by Ravaillac in 1610.

In 1628, it marries in second weddings, Marie d' Avaugour, girl of the count de Vertus, which becomes the famous duchess of Montbazon, one of the décriées most beautiful women and of its time. They had together:

François prince of Soubise (1630-1712), father of the prince and the Cardinal of Rohan
Marie-Eléonore, abbess of the Trinity of Caen, then becomes abbess of Malnoüe, dead the 4/8/1682.
Anne de Rohan (1640-1684), which was the second woman of the Duc of Luynes, wire of his/her sister, of which it had the count of Albert, the knight of Luynes and several girls, all bride.

External bond

Dynasty of Rohan

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