Louis Victor Mériadec de Rohan

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Louis Victor Mériadec de Rohan

Victor Louis Meriadec Prince de Rohan-Guémenée , duc de Montbazon et de Bouillon , comte de Saint-Pol , (born July 20, 1766 in Versailles , † December 10, 1846 in Sichrow , Bohemia ) was a member of the French aristocratic family Rohan and imperial Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal and Knight of the Maria Theresa Order .

Life

origin

Louis Victor was a son of Prince Henri Louis Marie de Rohan (1745-1808) from his marriage to Victorine Armande Josephine von Rohan-Soubise, and thus a grandson of Jules Hercule Mériadec de Rohan (1726-1800). Louis Victor's brother Charles Alain Gabriel de Rohan (1764-1836) also served as an officer in the Austrian army. Louis Victor, the 11th Prince of Guéméné , became Prince of Rohan-Guéméné in 1830 and succeeded his brother as the 10th Duke of Montbazon and Bouillon in 1836.

Military career

After 13 years of service in the French army, he emigrated to England in 1789 before the French Revolution and joined the imperial army in 1794, in which his brother already served as a colonel. On January 23, 1801 he was promoted to major general (with rank of February 13) and received from the emperor the command of the infantry regiment No. 21. In the coalition war of 1805 he commanded a volunteer brigade of the army of Archduke Johann in Tirol and was cut off by opposing forces in the Nauders area . On November 17th, his troops were assembled in Merano and marched on Bolzano. On the evening of November 20, Trento was reached, on the following day the march went to Borgo Valsugana , he managed to break through the middle of the enemy forces over the Vinschgau through the Val Sugana to the Adige . He united his troops on both banks of the Adige near Gries and drove a French battalion in pursuit from the bridge. Afterwards he intended to make his way to Venice and there, with the simultaneous failure of the enclosed Austrian garrison, to establish his union with them. But the order of the French general André Masséna brought the plan to failure, the division under Gouvion St. Cyr had the order to provide the troops of Rohan and destroy them. At the same time General Reynier tried to cut off Rohan's troops by advancing to Noale and attacked the Austrians at Castelfranco on the 24th. Meanwhile, St. Cyr had advanced from Campo San Pietro against Castelfranco, so Rohan's brigade was again surrounded and had to go into captivity with 3780 men and 494 riders. For his achievements in Italy, the Prince of Rohan received the Knight's Cross of the Maria Theresa Order on May 28, 1806.

In 1808 the prince was appointed colonel owner of Infantry Regiment No. 21 and on May 4, 1809 he was promoted to field marshal lieutenant. In the campaign of 1809 he led a division in the association of the IV Corps, which was commanded by the Prince of Orsini-Rosenberg . He fought in the Battle of Aspern and Wagram , where he was wounded on July 6th. In the fall of 1810 he left the army and retired to his estates in Bohemia .

family

In 1802 he married his niece, Princess Bertha von Rohan-Guéméné (May 4, 1782– February 22, 1841), the marriage remained childless. The title, name and coat of arms passed to his nephew Camille Joseph Philipp Idesbald Prince of Rohan-Rochefort (1800-1892).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ De la Chenaye-Desbois: Généalogie des Rohan. Prague, 1857. p. 44.
personal data
SURNAME Rohan, Louis Victor Mériadec de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohan-Guémenée, Viktor Ludwig Prince of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Member of the French noble family Rohan and imperial Austrian field marshal lieutenant
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Versailles
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1846
Place of death Sichrov , Bohemia