Louis-François-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot

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Louis-François-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, funerary figure in Besançon Cathedral

Louis-François-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot (born February 29, 1788 in Paris , † February 8, 1833 in Chenecey ) was a French clergyman, Archbishop of Besançon and cardinal .

Life

He came from the Breton noble family of Rohan and was the eldest of seven children of Duke Alexandre Louis Auguste de Rohan-Chabot and his wife Anne Elisabeth de Montmorency . During the French Revolution he followed his father into emigration, from which the family returned to Paris in 1800. When his grandfather, the Duke of Rohan, died in 1807, the title passed to his father and he himself became Prince of Léon. He married the 17-year-old Marie Georgine Armandine de Sérent on May 2, 1808. In 1809 he became chamberlain to the French Emperor Napoléon I Bonaparte , a position he held until the fall of Napoleon in 1814. His wife died of burns on January 10, 1815 after the hem of her dress caught fire. After the death of his father in 1816 he became Duke of Rohan himself.

Louis-François-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot entered the Saint-Sulpice seminary in Paris in 1819 . On June 1, 1822, he received the sacrament of ordination . After pastoral work in La Roche-Guyon , he became Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Paris . On June 23, 1828 he was appointed Archbishop of Auch . He received his episcopal ordination on January 18, 1829 in the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, the Archbishop of Paris Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen ; Co - consecrators were Louis-Augustine de Montblanc (1767-1841), Archbishop of Tours , and Guillaume-Aubin de Villèle (1770-1841), Archbishop of Bourges . On December 15, 1828, he was transferred to the archbishopric of Besançon .

Pope Pius VIII elevated him to cardinal priest in the consistory of July 5, 1830 . The fall of the Bourbon monarchy after the July Revolution of 1830 forced him to retreat first to Belgium and later to Switzerland. He took part in the conclave from 1830-1831 , which Pope Gregory XVI. chose. On February 28, 1831, the Pope awarded him the cardinal's hat and the titular church of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio .

In 1832 he returned to his diocese . On February 8, 1833, he died in Chenecey, 15 km south of Besançon, of a typhoid fever. He was buried in Besançon Cathedral.

literature

  • Nouvelle biography générale, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. Volume XLII. Firmin-Didot frères, Paris 1854-1866, col. 539 f. ( Digitized version )
  • Adolphe Robert, Edgar Bourloton, Gaston Cougny (eds.): Dictionnaire des parlementaires français ...: depuis le 1st mai 1789 jusqu'au 1st mai 1889 .... Volume IV. Lav – Pla. Bourloton, Paris 1889-1891, pp. 99-100 ( digitized version ).
  • Charles Bailles: Le cardinal de Rohan-Chabot archevêque de Besançon (1788-1833). Perrin et cie, Paris 1904 ( digitized ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notice historique et généalogique sur la maison de Chabot, et autres pièces concernant cette maison. Impr. De Dezauche, Paris 1834, p. 18 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ a b c d e Rohan-Chabot, Louis François-Auguste de. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website , English)
  3. ↑ Charles Bailles: Le cardinal de Rohan-Chabot archevêque de Besançon (1788-1833). Perrin et cie, Paris 1904, p. 134
  4. ^ Entry on Louis-François-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot on catholic-hierarchy.org
  5. ↑ Charles Bailles: Le cardinal de Rohan-Chabot archevêque de Besançon (1788-1833). Perrin et cie, Paris 1904, p. 466
  6. ↑ according to other sources on cholera , which at that time occurred pandemic in France , cf. histoireeurope.fr
predecessor Office successor
Paul-Ambroise Brother de Villefrancon Archbishop of Besançon
1828–1833 		Louis-Guillaume-Valentin Dubourg PSS
Antoine de Morlhon Archbishop of Auch
1828 		Joachim-Jean-Xavier d'Isoard
personal data
SURNAME Rohan-Chabot, Louis-François-Auguste de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohan-Chabot, Louis-François-Auguste duc de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French clergyman, Archbishop of Besançon and cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1833
Place of death Chenecey