François-Armand-Auguste de Rohan-Soubise, Prince of Tournon, Prince of Rohan (1 December 1717, Paris – 28 June 1756, Saverne) was a

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prelate, Prince-Bishop of

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. His parents, Anne Julie de Melun and Jules, Prince de Soubise, both died of smallpox when he was still a child.

Biography

He received Holy Orders as a Catholic priest on 23 December 1741Catholic Hierarchy
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first of the Abbey of Ventadour, which was succeeded by that of

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(in the Diocese of Toul) from 1736, and later added was that of Prince-Abbot of the Abbeys of Murbach and of Lure in 1737. He was elected to the

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on 15 July 1741. A year later he was appointed

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of the Diocese of Strasbourg. He was the great-nephew of the incumbent Prince-Bishop, Cardinal Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan, and was simultaneously named as the titular bishop '' in partibus'' of Ptolemais in

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(now

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). He was

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a bishop on the following 4 November. He was made

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in 1745 and a

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in 1747. Upon the death of his great-uncle in 1749, he automatically became Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg and became commendatory abbot of the great Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu that same year, giving up that of Saint-Epvre. He died in 1756 of tuberculosis.

Siblings

* Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise, Duke of Rohan-Rohan (16 July 1715–4 July 1787) married Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne (1722–1739) and had issue; married again to Princess Anna Teresa of Savoy (1717–1745) and had issue; married

Victoire of Hesse-Rotenburg Princess Victoria of Hesse-Rotenburg (Anna Victoria Maria Christina; 25 February 1728 – 1 July 1792) was a princess of Hesse by birth, and the Princess of Soubise by marriage. Her husband was a renowned French commander, known as the ''Maré ...

(1728–1792) no issue; * Marie Louise Geneviève de Rohan (7 January 1720–4 March 1803) married Gaston Jean Baptiste de Lorraine, Count of Marsan, no issue; *François Auguste de Rohan, Count of Tournon (16 September 1721–6 August 1736) never married; *René de Rohan, O.S.B., monk of the Abbey of Luxeuil (26 July 1723–7 February 1743) never married.

Ancestry

References

External links

Académie française
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