Charles Alain de Rohan (Charles Alain Gabriel; 18 January 1764 – 24 April 1836) was a French nobleman and

Prince of Guéméné Prince of Guémené is a title of French nobility associated with the fiefdom of Guémené-sur-Scorff in Brittany and held within the House of Rohan. The fiefdom was bought on 26 May 1377, for 3,400 '' sous d'or'' by Jean de Rohan, Viscount of Roha ...

. He died without any surviving descendants as his daughter died without children.

Biography

Born on 18 January 1764 at the Palace of Versailles, he was baptised the same day. He was the son of Henri Louis de Rohan and his distant cousin

Victoire de Rohan Victoire Armande Josèphe de Rohan, ''Princess of Guéméné'' (28 December 1743 – 20 September 1807) was a French noblewoman and court official. She was the governess of the children of Louis XVI of France. She is known better as ''Madame de G ...

. His mother was governess to the children of Marie Antoinette and

Louis XVI Louis XVI (''Louis-Auguste''; ; 23 August 175421 January 1793) was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. He was referred to as ''Citizen Louis Capet'' during the four months just before he was ...

; she was succeeded by Madame de Polignac. After his parents became disgraced with his fathers debts, the family moved from Versailles and had to sell their famous townhouse, the Parisian Hôtel de Rohan-Guémené. He married Louise Aglaé de Conflans d'Armentieres at the Église Saint-Sulpice in Paris on 29 May 1781 and had one daughter, Berthe, who would later marry her uncle the

Duke of Bouillon The Duchy of Bouillon (french: Duché de Bouillon) was a duchy comprising Bouillon and adjacent towns and villages in present-day Belgium. The state originated in the 10th century as property of the Lords of Bouillon, owners of Bouillon Cast ...

. Berthe would have no children and as such, Charles Alain has no known descendants. His cousins included the

Prince of Condé A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...

, son of

Charlotte de Rohan Charlotte de Rohan (''Charlotte Godefride Élisabeth''; 7 October 1737 – 4 March 1760) was a French aristocrat who married into the House of Condé, a cadet branch of the ruling House of Bourbon, during the Ancien Régime. She was Prince ...

, sister of Victoire; the

Abbess of Remiremont Remiremont Abbey was an abbey that was founded as a house of nuns near Remiremont, Vosges, France. It later became a community of secular canonesses. History It was founded about 620 by Romaric (580–653), a lord at the court of Chlothar II, w ...

was also his cousin. He emigrated from France in 1791 and resided in Austria where he joined the army and was promoted to Field Marshal. He entered the service of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor. At the death of his distant cousin Jacques Léopold de La Tour d'Auvergne the

in 1802, Charles Alain was the nearest relative in the family since his grandmother

Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne (Marie Louise Henriette Jeanne; 15 August 1725 – 1793) was a French noblewoman and member of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne. She was the Princess of Guéméné by marriage. Biography Marie Louise was the ...

the famous mistress of

Bonnie Prince Charlie Bonnie, is a Scottish given name and is sometimes used as a descriptive reference, as in the Scottish folk song, My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean. It comes from the Scots language word "bonnie" (pretty, attractive), or the French bonne (good). That ...

was Jacques Léopold's aunt. He purchased the Sychrov Castle in Bohemia (today in the

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) where he died in 1836. The castle was the home of the

Rohan family The House of Rohan ( br, Roc'han) is a Breton family of viscounts, later dukes and princes in the French nobility, coming from the locality of Rohan in Brittany. Their line descends from the viscounts of Porhoët and is said to trace back to ...

until 1945.

Issue

*Berthe de Rohan (4 May 1782 – 22 February 1841) married her uncle Louis Victor Meriadec de Rohan and had no issue.

Ancestry

References and notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guemene, Charles Alain, Prince Of 1764 births 1836 deaths People from Versailles House of Rohan 18th-century French people 19th-century French people Princes of Guéméné Dukes of Montbazon Princes of Soubise Dukes of Bouillon Knights of the Golden Fleece of Austria French counter-revolutionaries People of Byzantine descent Austrian Empire commanders of the Napoleonic Wars