Charlotte de Rohan

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Charlotte de Rohan
Princess of Condé
Charlotte de Rohan in a forest. Portrait by François-Hubert Drouais
Born(1737-10-07)7 October 1737
Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, France
Died4 March 1760(1760-03-04) (aged 22)
Hôtel de Condé, Paris, France
Burial
Carmel du faubourg Saint-Jacques, Paris, France
Spouse
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(m. 1753)​
Issue
Detail
Names
Charlotte Godefride Élisabeth de Rohan
FatherCharles de Rohan
MotherAnne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne
SignatureCharlotte de Rohan's signature

Charlotte de Rohan (Charlotte Godefride Élisabeth; 7 October 1737 – 4 March 1760) was a French aristocrat who married into the

Ancien Régime. She was Princess of Condé
by her marriage. She has no known descendants today as her grandson, heir to the Condé family, died without children and her daughter remained childless. Charlotte was praised for being a cultured and attractive princess of her age.

Early life

Charlotte Godefride

Louis Joseph de Bourbon, two famous generals during the reign of Louis XIV. Anne Marie Louise was also the great-great-granddaughter of Madame de Ventadour, the governess of King Louis XV
as a small child.

Charlotte was born at the Hôtel de Soubise in Paris, the townhouse of the Rohan family in the fashionable

princes étrangers at the French court with the corresponding style of Highness
.

In 1739, she was created Marchioness of

Viscountess of Guignen
in her own right. In her dowry, she was given the Lordship of Annonay, which she passed onto the Bourbons.

Princess of Condé

Charlotte de Rohan painted on a portrait miniature, by Jean-Marie Ribou

Charlotte married

duc de Bourbon, had been the chief minister of King Louis XV and had been instrumental in arranging the young King's marriage to the Polish princess Marie Leszczyńska
. He was forty-eight at the time of his death.

Louis Joseph's mother, the German princess,

Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg, died the next year in 1741 at the age of twenty-six. As a result, Louis Joseph was an orphan and had been raised by his uncle the Count of Clermont. The new princesse de Condé was among the most important females at court, ranking behind Queen Marie Leszczyńska and her eight daughters, the Duchess of Orléans and Mademoiselle
; Mademoiselle would later become her daughter-in-law.

Louis Joseph possessed the rank of

prince du sang at court with the corresponding style of Serene Highness
, a style Charlotte assumed when she became the princesse de Condé.

Three children were born to the marriage. First a girl was born in 1755, soon to be followed by a desired son in 1756, then another daughter was born in 1758. Charlotte lived at the

Louise-Françoise de Bourbon
had been sold to the crown. A cultured princess, she was kind to the poor.

Death

It was at the Hôtel de Condé that Charlotte died after a 'long illness'[3] as reported by the Duke of Luynes. She was just twenty-two years old. She was buried at the Carmelite Convent of the Faubourg Saint-Jacques. The official time for mourning for Charlotte began on 11 March.[3]

Her husband went on to marry again in 1798. He married his second wife

Maria-Caterina di Brignole-Sale, the widow of Honoré III, Prince of Monaco
.

Children

  1. Marie de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Bourbon (16 February 1755 – 22 June 1759); died in childhood.
  2. Louis Henri, Prince of Condé (13 April 1756 – 30 August 1830); married Bathilde d'Orléans and had issue.
  3. Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon (5 October 1757 – 10 March 1824); died unmarried, and had no issue.

Ancestry

References and notes

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  1. ^ sometimes spelt Godefroyde
  2. ^ Villemur, A. R. (1852). Monseigneur le duc de Bourbon: notice historique sur la vie et la mort de son altesse royale, p. 15. Retrieved 18 March 2010 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b d'Albert de Luynes, Marie Charles Louis (1857). Chronique de le régence et du regne de Louis XV, p. 238. Retrieved 19 March 2010.
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