Princess Victoria of Hesse-Rotenburg

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Victoria of Hesse-Rotenburg
Princess of Soubise
Portrait by Johann Heinrich Tischbein
Born	(1728-02-25)25 February 1728 Rotenburg an der Fulda, Hesse-Rotenburg
Died	1 July 1792(1792-07-01) (aged 64) Paris, France
Burial	Rotenburg Castle, Germany
Spouse	Charles, Prince of Soubise (m. 1745⁠–⁠1787)
Father	Joseph, Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Rotenburg
Mother	Christine of Salm

Princess Victoria of Hesse-Rotenburg (Anna Victoria Maria Christina; 25 February 1728 – 1 July 1792) was a princess of Hesse by birth, and the Princess of Soubise by marriage. Her husband was a renowned French commander, known as the Maréchal de Soubise. She died without descendants.

Early life

Born in Rotenburg an der Fulda to Joseph, Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Rotenburg and his wife Princess Christine Anna Luise Oswaldine of Salm, she was the eldest of four children.

Marriage

She married Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise on 23 December 1745 at the château des Rohan in Saverne. He was head of the cadet branch of the wealthy and powerful House of Rohan, which, enjoyed the rank of princes étrangers at the court of Versailles.

Later life

Her husband was a two-time widower, having been married first to Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne^[1] (1722–1739), and secondly to Princess Anne Thérese of Savoy-Carignan^[2] (1717–1745). Victoire had two step-daughters from these marriages; Charlotte, future Princess of Condé and Madame de Guéméné, who became governess of the children of Louis XVI.

Among her first cousins were King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia and the tragic princesse de Lamballe.

Like her husband, she took lovers outside her marriage. In 1757, by order of Louis XV, she was arrested in Tournai, purportedly for having stolen 900,000 livres worth of jewels from her husband in order to run away with her apparent lover, Monsieur de Laval-Montmorency.

The couple separated and her parents were given a pension of 24,000 livres to take Victoire, exiled from court, to dwell with them at Echternach. The couple had no children and Victoire died in Paris, having outlived her husband by five years to the day.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Princess Victoria of Hesse-Rotenburg^[3]

16. Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg

8. William, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg

17. Marie Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms

4. Ernest Leopold, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg

18. Ferdinand Karl, Count of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort

9. Countess Maria Anna of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort

19. Countess Anna Maria of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg

2. Joseph, Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Rotenburg

20. Ferdinand Karl, Count of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort =18

10. Maximilian Karl, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort

21. Countess Anna Maria of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg =19

5. Countess Eleonore of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort

22. Mathias Khuen, Count von Lichtenberg und Gandegg

11. Countess Maria Polyxena Khuen von Lichtenberg

23. Countess Anna Susanna von Meggau zu Kreutzen

1. Princess Viktoria of Hesse-Rotenburg

24. Leopold Philip Charles, Prince of Salm

12. Charles Theodore, Prince of Salm

25. Countess Maria Anna of Bronckhorst-Anholt

6. Louis Otto, Prince of Salm

26. Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern

13. Princess Palatine Luise Marie

27. Princess Anna of Mantua

3. Christina of Salm

28. Johann Ludwig, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar

14. Maurice Henry, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar

29. Countess Ursula of Lippe

7. Princess Albertine of Nassau-Hadamar

30. Salentin Ernst, Count of Manderscheid-Blankenheim

15. Countess Anna Luise of Manderscheid-Blankenheim

31. Countess Ernestine Salentine of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn

References and notes

^ Daughter of the 4th Duke of Bouillon
^ Daughter of Victor Amadeus, Prince of Carignan
^ Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 66.

v t e Landgravines of Hesse-Rotenburg
The generations start from the children of Herman IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg and his brother Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels
2nd generation	Maria Eleonore, Countess Palatine of Sulzbach
3rd generation	Polyxena, Queen of Sardinia Eleonore, Countess Palatine of Sulzbach Caroline, Princess of Condé Christine, Princess of Carignan
4th generation	Victoria, Princess of Soubise Hedwig, Duchess of Bouillon

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