Louise de Rohan
Louise de Rohan was a French noblewoman and Princess of Guéméné by marriage.Biography
Born in Paris to Hercule Mériadec de Rohan and his wife Anne Geneviève de Lévis, as a member of the House of Rohan, she was entitled to the style of Highness. Her mother was the only child of Madame de Ventadour.
Her siblings included Louise Françoise, Duchess of La Meilleraye Jules, Prince of Soubise, Marie Isabelle, Duchess of Tallard, Governess of the Children of France. Her uncle was the Bishop of Strasbourg.
She was baptised with the names Louise Gabrielle Julie on 13 August. She was known as Louise de Rohan. Her uncle was the Bishop of Strasbourg, alleged son of Louis XIV.
Louise de Rohan was engaged to her cousin Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, who was son and heir of Charles III, Prince of Guéméné and Charlotte Élisabeth de Cochefilet. They were married on 4 August 1718 at Jouarre Abbey where her older sister Charlotte Armande was Abbess.
Louise presented her daughter, Charlotte Louise, to Louis XV and the queen, Marie Leszczyńska on 26 October 1737 at Fontainebleau. Two days later Charlotte Louise married the Italian Prince of Masserano. The Prince of Masserano was the Spanish ambassador in London.
, 1738
She died at Chevilly, Loiret on 20 August 1780.
She owned the Manoir de Launay which she bought in 1747.Issue
- Charlotte Louise de Rohan married Vittorio Amadeo Luiz Ferrero Fieschi, Prince of Masserano and had issue;
- Geneviève Armande Élisabeth de Rohan, Abbess of Marquette never married;
- Jules Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné married Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne and had issue;
- Marie-Louise de Rohan died in infancy;
- Louis Armand Constantin de Rohan, Prince de Montbazon married Gabrielle Rosalie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, daughter of François Victor Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, no issue; Louis Armand was guillotined in the revolution;
- Louis René Édouard de Rohan, Cardinal de Rohan Archbishop of Strasbourg, no issue;
- Ferdinand Maximilien Mériadec de Rohan, Archbishop of Cambrai had illegitimate children with Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, daughter of Charles Edward Stuart and Clementina Walkinshaw;
Ancestry