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Eugene Jean, Count of Soissons

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Prince Eugene Jean of Savoy (Eugene Jean François; 23 September 1714 – 23 November 1734) was the last Count of Soissons and by birth member of the House of Savoy.

Life

The only son of Emmanuel Thomas, Count of Soissons (a member of the House of Savoy-Carignano), and Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein, he succeeded to his father's titles, Count of Soissons and Duke of Troppau, when the latter died in 1729. In 1731, Eugene Jean became a Knight in the Austrian Order of the Golden Fleece, like his father.

With the aim of establishing a second Savoy state in central Italy, his great-uncle Prince Eugene of Savoy, a prominent member of the imperial court, requested for him the hand of Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa and Princess of Carrara in her own right, obtaining the approval of Emperor Charles VI and the King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, whom he looked to as the head of the family.[1] The duchess was then only seven years old and was under the regency of her mother Ricciarda Gonzaga di Novellara [it]. Matrimonial agreements were signed in Vienna, where the prince resided, on 2 May 1732, and, in the month of October, the eighteen-year-old betrothed visited Massa to pay homage to his little fiancée and future mother-in-law. The marriage, however, could not take place due to the young count's premature death in Mannheim on 23 November 1734.[2] Maria Teresa would later marry Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena.

With his death, the title "Count of Soissons" became extinct and reverted to the French crown. The title "Duke of Troppau" returned to his mother, whose estates passed to Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein, when she died in 1772.

Ancestry

Notes

  1. ^ Merlotti, Andrea (2010). "Savoia e Asburgo nel XVIII secolo: due progetti per un secondo Stato sabaudo nell'Italia imperiale (1732, 1765)". In Bellabarba, Marco; Niederkorn, Jan Paul (eds.). Le corti come luogo di comunicazione. Gli Asburgo e l'Italia (secolo XVI-XIX) / Höfe als Orte der Kommunikation. Die Habsburger und Italien (16. bis 19. Jahrhundert) (in Italian and German). Bologna/Berlin: Mulino/Duncker&Humblot. pp. 216–224. ISBN 978-88-15-13978-8/ISBN 978-3-428-13397-0.
  2. ^ Sforza, Giovanni (1909). "Il principe Eugenio Francesco di Savoia conte di Soissons e il suo fidanzamento con Maria Teresa Cibo duchessa di Massa". Miscellanea di storia italiana. 3rd series (in Italian). XIII (XLIV). Torino: Bocca: 359–416.
  3. ^ Louis Thomas was the elder brother of Prince Eugene of Savoy.
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