Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise

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Charles de Rohan-Soubise as Marshal of France

Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise (born July 16, 1715 in Paris , † July 4, 1787 ibid), was a French officer and statesman. From 1758 he was Marshal of France and, as Prince of Soubise, a peer of France .

Life

Charles was a son of Jules de Rohan, prince de Soubise (1697-1724), and his wife Anne Julie Adelaide de Melun (1698-1724). He followed his grandfather Hercule Meriadec in 1749 as Duke of Ventadour and Rohan-Rohan and as Prince of Soubise and Epinoy.

He accompanied Louis XV. as his adjutant in the campaigns from 1744 to 1748 and forced Mechelen to surrender in 1746 , which is why he was appointed Maréchal de camp in 1748 and Governor of Flanders and Hainaut in 1751 .

At the beginning of the Seven Years' War with the command of a corps in charge of 24,000 men, he captured Wesel , occupied Kleve and Geldern and united with the German imperial army under Duke Joseph Friedrich von Sachsen-Hildburghausen to Saxony by the Prussians to free. In Gotha he was attacked by the troops of Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz at dinner in the castle in September and hurriedly fled. On November 5, 1757 he suffered a defeat in the Battle of Roßbach , but Ludwig XV sent him anyway. In 1758 he returned to the theater of war in Germany with Victor-François de Broglie .

Although there was constant jealousy between the two commanders, they won a victory in the Battle of Lutterberg on October 10, 1758 , and Hesse fell into their hands. Soubise therefore received the marshal's baton and kept command until the peace treaty of 1763. After the death of Madame de Pompadour , he found an equally strong support in Marie-Jeanne Bécu, comtesse du Barry . When Louis XV. died, he was the only one of the courtiers who did not leave the body until its burial. This train of devotion moved Louis XVI. To leave Soubise the post in the Council of Ministers.

He died on July 4th 1787 and with him the line of Rohan-Soubise became extinct.

family

Charles de Rohan-Soubise married Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne (1722-1739), daughter of Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon et d'Albret, with whom he had two children :

He concluded his second marriage in 1742 with Anna Theresa (1717–1745), daughter of Prince Viktor Amadeus I of Savoy-Carignan , with whom he had a daughter:

  • Victoire Armande Josephe (1743–1807), princesse de Maubuisson, ⚭ 1761 Henri Louis Marie de Rohan, duc de Montbazon (1745–1809)

The third and last marriage in 1745 with Anna Viktoria (1728–1792), daughter of Landgrave Joseph von Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg, remained childless.

Trivia

He is known today as the namesake of the soupe soubise (onion soup) and the sauce soubise .

literature

personal data
SURNAME Rohan, Charles de, prince de Soubise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general and statesman, peer and marshal of France
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1787
Place of death Paris