Anne Thérèse of Savoy (1 November 1717 – 5 April 1745) was a

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ard princess born in Paris,

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. She was the second wife of Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise, a military leader and friend of

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. She was also a first half-cousin of

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sharing the same grandfather

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Biography

Born at the Parisian '' Hôtel de Soissons'', she was a member of a

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of the

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. Her father was the Prince di Carignano. Through her mother, she was a granddaughter of the then king Victor Amadeus of Sicily.The Kingdom of Sicily was exchanged for the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1720 when Anne Thérèse was three years old Her mother was Maria Vittoria Francesca, legittimata di Savoia, Marchesa di Susa, a

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daughter of Victor Amadeus II and his ''

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'', Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes. She grew up in Paris, their parents fleeing the court of Savoy due to embarrassingly large debts. Their parents arrived in Paris during the regency of Philippe d'Orléans (1715–1723), regent of the Kingdom for the infant

. Her husband to be was Charles de Rohan, the widower of Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne, a granddaughter of Marie Mancini. As head of the

of the

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, Charles bore the titles '' Prince de Soubise'' and Duke of Rohan-Rohan. He became a

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in 1758, and served as a minister to Louis XV and

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. Orphaned at the age of 9, he was a notorious libertine. The couple married in the original (''vieux'') donjon of the château de Rohan in the town of

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on 6 November 1741. Presiding over the ceremony was the bridegroom's brother, Armand de Rohan, bishop of Strasbourg. Anne Thérèse had a step-daughter, Charlotte de Rohan, future wife of Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé and grandmother of Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien, an ''

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'' whose seizure and execution by personal order of

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would shock Europe in 1804. Anne Thérèse died in childbirth at the ''Hôtel de Soubise''. In December 1745, her widowed husband married again; this time to

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Anna Viktoria of Hesse-Rotenburg.

Issue

Ancestry

References and notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Anne Therese Of Savoy, Princess 1717 births 1745 deaths Nobility from Paris Princesses of Savoy House of Rohan 18th-century Italian people People from the Kingdom of Sardinia 18th-century French people Deaths in childbirth Princesses of Soubise Princesses of Epinoy Duchesses of Joyeuse Duchesses of Rohan-Rohan