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10 unusual facts about Soubise


Battle of Blavet

The Battle of Blavet (French: Bataille du Blavet) was an encounter between the Huguenot forces of Soubise and a French fleet under the Duke of Nevers in Blavet harbour (Port de Blavet, modern Port-Louis), Brittany in January 1625, triggering the Second Huguenot rebellion against the Crown of France.

François, Prince of Soubise

He was buried at the Église Saint-pierre in Soubise, a church which he had rebuilt after its destruction in the Wars of Religion.

At the insistence of his wife, François bought of the Hôtel de Guise from the trustees of the late Duchess of Guise.

Hercule, Duke of Montbazon

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;

Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch

While attempting to lift the siege of Soubise his force was surprised by a French force led by Owain Lawgoch, a Welsh soldier of fortune in the French service.

Marguerite, Duchess of Rohan

A great heiress, she inherited the Duchy (later principality) of Soubise which was given to her daughter Anne.

August 1698) married Alexandre Guillaume de Melun, Prince d'Epinoy and had issue; was grandmother of Anne Julie de Melun, Princesse de Soubise, wife of Jules de Rohan, a grandson of the above Anne.

Naval battle of Saint-Martin-de-Ré

Conflicts would soon resume with the upraisal of the Huguenot leader Soubise together with La Rochelle against Royal authority in 1625, leading to the Capture of Ré island by Royal forces that year, and of course with the major Siege of La Rochelle in 1627-1628.

Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment

Somewhere between August 23 and September 6, 1757, the regiment joined the Army of Saxony, led by Soubise, in the area of Erfurt and Eisenach.

Siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély

The Siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély (French: Siège de Saint-Jean-d'Angély) was a siege, (military blockade), accomplished by the young French king Louis XIII in 1621, against the Protestant stronghold of Saint-Jean-d'Angély led by Rohan's brother Benjamin de Rohan, duc de Soubise.


Anne Geneviève de Lévis

Jules François Louis de Rohan, Prince of Soubise (16 January 1697 – 6 May 1724) married Anne Julie de Melun, daughter of Louis de Melun and Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, and had issue; died of Smallpox;

Cardinal de Soubise

Cardinal François-Armand-Auguste de Rohan-Soubise, Prince of Tournon, Prince of Rohan (1 December 1717, Paris - 28 June 1756, Saverne) was a French prelate, Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg.

Hercule Mériadec de Rohan

Hercule Mériadec, Duke of Rohan-Rohan (1669–1749), son of François, Prince of Soubise and Anne de Rohan-Chabot

Recovery of Ré island

On 16 July 1625, Soubise managed to blow up the Dutch ship under Vice-Admiral Van Dorp, with a loss of 300 Dutch sailors.