Hercule, Duke of Montbazon

Hercule de Rohan (27 August 1568 – 16 October 1654) was a member of the princely

Born the seventh of fourteen children of Louis de Rohan, prince de Guéméné and his wife Eléanore de Rohan, he was given the title of Count of Rochefort-en-Yvelines prior to becoming the Duke of Montbazon in 1589 at the death of his brother. He married twice; firstly to Madeleine de Lenoncourt, daughter of Henri de Lenoncourt, third of the name, and his wife Françoise de Laval, sister of the maréchal de Bois-Dauphin. Madeleine was the widow of his elder brother, Louis VII de Rohan-Guéméné. The couple were married on 24 October 1594 and had two children.

His first son Louis, was the

Hercule's first wife Madeleine died in 1602. In 1628, he married Marie de Bretagne d'Avaugour [fr], daughter of Claude de Bretagne, Count of Vertus and Catherine Fouquet de La Varenne.

His second wife was hailed as one of the most beautiful and most notorious women of her time. Hercule and Marie had three children, of whom two, François and Anne, would have progeny. François founded the

Hercule served

Hercule was riding in the carriage with Henri IV when the king was assassinated by François Ravaillac on 14 May 1610. Hercule himself was wounded in the attack. Hercule commanded the funeral procession for Henri's heart.^[1] He died at the Château de Couziers eighty-six years old. He was buried at Rochefort-en-Yvelines in France, in local church's chapel called Chapel of princes.^[2]

Issue

Issue with first wife:

• Louis VIII, Prince of Guéméné, Prince de Guéméné (5 August 1598 – 18 February 1667) married Anne de Rohan, heiress of Guéméné; present
  Princes of Guéméné
  descend from this line;
• Charles d'Albert de Luynes and had issue; married again to Claude de Lorraine, Duke of Chevreuse

• Marie Eléonore de Rohan (1630 – 8 April 1682) died without issue;
• François de Rohan, Prince of Soubise (1630 – 24 August 1712) married Cathérine Lyonne and had no issue; married again to Anne de Rohan-Chabot, Princess of Soubise, and had issue; founder of the Soubise line of the House of Rohan
  ;
• Anne de Rohan (1644 – 29 October 1684) married
  Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia
  ;