House of Rohan

For other uses of the word Rohan, see Rohan (disambiguation).

Château des Rohan in Mutzig, Alsace (completed in 1673)

Hôtel de Rohan-Soubise, Paris (completed in 1705)

Palais Rohan in Strasbourg, Alsace (completed in 1742)

Palais Rohan in Bordeaux, Aquitaine (completed in 1774)

Château des Rohan in Saverne, Alsace (completed in 1790)

Palais Rohan in Vienna, Austria (completed in 1864)

The House of Rohan is a family of viscounts, later dukes and princes, coming from the locality of Rohan in Brittany. Their line descends from the viscounts of Porhoët and said to trace back to the legendary Conan Meriadoc. Through the Porhoët, the Rohan are related to the Dukes of Brittany, with whom the family intermingled again in after its inception. They developed ties with the French and English royal houses as well, and played an important role in French and European history.

Branches and titles

Alain I de Rohan, son of the viscount of Porhoët, was the first to take on the name of Rohan, after the place where he was born.

The main branch of the family went extinct when Jean II died childless in 1638; his title and possessions passed on to the cadet branch of Rohan-Gié.

When the first duke of Rohan, Henri II de Rohan-Gié, died, his title and name passed on to the Chabot family as his only daughter married Henri Chabot. This created the Rohan-Chabot lineage, which was not really a branch of the Rohan family.

During the 17th and 18th centuries the Rohan also bore the title Prince Étranger habitué en France due to their descent from the old kings of Brittany and their hereditary control of the archbishopric of Strasbourg, which made them princes of the Holy Roman Empire.

• Rohan-Gié, extinct 1638
• Rohan-Soubise, extinct 1787

Notable members

• Henri II de Rohan-Gié (1579-1638) started viscount, then became the 1st duc de Rohan, and peer of France
• Hercule Mériadec de Rohan (1669-1749)
• Maria di Rohan
• Henri, Duc de Rohan
• Louis René Édouard de Rohan
• Charles, Prince of Soubise
• Victoire de Rohan
• Marie de Rohan
• Ferdinand Maximilien Meriadec de Rohan
• Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc
• Carlos, Duke of Madrid
• Marie Antoinette
• Alexander de Rohan

See also

• Media related to House of Rohan at Wikimedia Commons
• Duke of Brittany
• French nobility
• List of French peerages
• Almanach de Gotha
• Bohemian nobility
• Josselin
• Rohan Castle
• Princess of Soubise
• Hotel de Soubise, Paris
• Hotel de Rohan, Paris
• Hotel de Rohan-Guéméné, Paris

• Palais Rohan, Bordeaux
• Palais Rohan, Strasbourg
• Château des Rohan (Mutzig)
• Palais Rohan, Prague
• Sychrov Castle
• Lysa nad Labem

External links

• Spanish Royal Genealogy, Henri Vanoene
• The Rohan-Chabot family in Josselin
• Family de Rohan