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Anne Julie de Melun

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Anne Julie
Princess of Soubise
SpouseJules de Rohan
Issue
Detail		Charles, Prince of Soubise
Armand, cardinal de Soubise
Marie Louise, Countess of Marsan
Names
Anne Julie Adélaïde de Melun
FatherLouis de Melun
MotherÉlisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine

Anne Julie de Melun (Anne Julie Adélaïde; 1698 – 18 May 1724[1]) was a French noblewoman and mother of Charles de Rohan, the famous general of Louis XV as well as Madame de Marsan. She died of smallpox in her twenties.

Biography

Born in 1698, she was baptised with the names Anne Julie Adélaïde and was known as Anne Julie. Born to Louis de Melun, Prince d'Epinoy and his wife Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, princesse de Lillebonne she was the second of two children. Her brother Louis de Melun disappeared in 1724, two months after her death.

She was the Lady of Boubers in her own right[2]. The peerage was confiscated in 1789[2].

At the age of roughly fifteen, she married Jules, Prince of Soubise. The couple were wed in Paris on 16 September 1714[1]. Her husband was a member of the Princely House of Rohan and with the marriage, Anne Julie took on the style of Her Highness. Her husbands parents were Hercule Mériadec, Duke of Rohan-Rohan and Anne Geneviève de Lévis.

She and her husband were second cousins. Anne Julie was an under governess to the children of France working with Madame de Ventadour, her husbads maternal grandmother.

The couple had five children in all. She and her husband died in Paris of smallpox. Her eldest son Charles succeeded as Prince of Soubise. Her brother's disappearance, led to the Principality of Epinoy (previously enjoyed by Anne Julie's father) was given to her son, Charles[3] .

Ancestry

Family of Anne Julie de Melun
16. Pierre de Melun, Prince of Epinoy
8. Guillaume de Melun, Prince of Epinoy
17. Hippolyte de Montmorency
4. Alexandre Guillaume de Melun, Prince of Epinoy
18. Charles d'Arenberg, Prince of Arenberg, Duke of Aerschot
9. Princesse Ernestine d'Arenberg
19. Anne de Croÿ, Duchess of Aerschot & Croÿ
Daughter of Philipe de Croÿ, Duke of Aerschot
2.Louis de Melun, Prince of Epinoy
20. Charles Chabot, Lord of Sainte-Aulaye
10. Henri Chabot, Duke of Rohan
21. Henriette de Lur
5. Jeanne Pélagie de Rohan-Chabot, Lady of Montlieu
22. Henri, Duke of Rohan
11. Marguerite de Rohan
23. Marguerite de Béthune
1. Anne Julie de Melun
24. Charles I, Duke of Elbeuf
12. Charles II, Duke of Elbeuf
25. Marguerite de Chabot
6. François Marie de Lorraine, Prince of Lillebonne
26. Henry IV of France
13. Catherine Henriette de Bourbon, Légitimée de France
27. Gabrielle d'Estrées
3. Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, Princess of Lillebonne
28. Francis II, Duke of Lorraine
14. Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine
29. Christina of Salm
7. Anne de Lorraine
30. Claude François de Cusance, Baron of Belvoir
15. Béatrix de Cusance
31. Ernestine de Witthem, Countess of Walhain

Issue

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

  • 1698 – 16 September 1714 Anne Julie de Melun
  • 16 September 1714 – 18 May 1724 Her Highness the Princess of Soubise

References and notes

  1. ^ a b c van de Pas, Leo. "Anne Julie de Melun". Genealogics .org. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
  2. ^ a b Saint-Allais, Nicolas Viton de. Nobiliaire universel de France: ou Recueil général des généalogies. Retrieved 2010-03-25. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Aubert de La Chesnaye Des Bois, François-Alexandre. "Dictionnaire de la noblesse, contenant les généalogies, l'histoire et la chronologie des familles nobles de France". Gallica.org. Retrieved 2010-03-21.

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