Jacqueline de Rohan

Jacqueline de Rohan, Duchess of Longueville

Jacqueline de Rohan Gié (* around 1520 , † 1587 ) was a French court clerk and aristocrat , the Duchess of Longueville and a supporter of Protestantism .

She is also called Jacqueline Dame de Blandy-les-Tours, Jacqueline Dame de Gié, Jacqueline Marquise de Rothelin or Jacqueline Princesse de Neufchâtel .

biography

Jacqueline de Rohan was born around 1520 to Charles de Rohan and Princess Jeanne de Saint-Severin (Giovanna Sanseverino), a French nobleman. She married François d'Orléans-Longueville on June 19, 1536 in Lyon . They had three children together. François d'Orléans died on October 25, 1548. She then never married again.

Role in Protestantism

Jacqueline converted to Protestantism around 1557. She had received the castle of Blandy-les-Tours as a dowry and received Huguenot refugees there, especially after the religious war in 1562. For this she was imprisoned in the Louvre in 1567 . She died in July 1587.

Four funerals

Although she died a Protestant, she was buried in the choir of Blandy Church. After the events of the French Revolution , her body was exhumed in 1794 and reburied in the community cemetery. Her body was reburied in 1854 when Blandy Cemetery was moved out of the village. The grave was destroyed in 1990 and then restored; on that occasion the grave had to be moved again, and only then, at her fourth burial, did Jacqueline finally receive a Protestant funeral.

children

Léonor (1540–1573), Duke of Longueville
Jacques (1547), died in infancy
Françoise d'Orléans-Longueville (approx. 1549–1601)

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personal data
SURNAME	Rohan, Jacqueline de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rohan Gié, Jacqueline de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French court clerk and aristocrat
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1520
DATE OF DEATH	1587