Father Louis de Melun | Name Anne de | |
Issue
Detail Charles, Prince of Soubise
Armand, cardinal de Soubise
Marie Louise, Countess of Marsan Mother Elisabeth Therese de Lorraine Died May 18, 1724, Hotel de Soubise Spouse Jules, Prince of Soubise (m. 1714–1724) Parents Elisabeth Therese de Lorraine Children Charles, Prince of Soubise, Marie Louise de Rohan, Cardinal de Soubise Grandchildren Victoire de Rohan, Charlotte de Rohan Grandparents Francois Marie, Prince of Lillebonne | ||
Anne Julie de Melun (Anne Julie Adelaide; 1698 – 18 May 1724) was a French noblewoman and mother of Charles de Rohan, the famous general of Louis XV as well as Madame de Marsan. She died of smallpox in her twenties.
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Born in 1698, she was baptised with the names Anne Julie Adelaide and was known as Anne Julie. Born to Louis de Melun, Prince d'Epinoy and his wife Elisabeth Therese de Lorraine, princesse de Lillebonne she was the second of two children. Her brother Louis de Melun disappeared in 1724, two months after her death.
She was the Lady of Boubers in her own right. The peerage was confiscated in 1789.
At the age of roughly fifteen, she married Jules, Prince of Soubise. The couple were wed in Paris on 16 September 1714. Her husband was a member of the Princely House of Rohan and with the marriage, Anne Julie took on the style of Her Highness. Her husbands parents were Hercule Meriadec, Duke of Rohan-Rohan and Anne Genevieve de Levis.
She and her husband were second cousins. Anne Julie was an under governess to the children of France working with Madame de Ventadour, her husbads maternal grandmother.
The couple had five children in all. She and her husband died in Paris of smallpox. Her eldest son Charles succeeded as Prince of Soubise. Her brother's disappearance, led to the Principality of Epinoy (previously enjoyed by Anne Julie's father) was given to her son, Charles.