Princess Anna Theresa of Savoy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Anne Therese of Savoy)

Anne Thérèse

Princess of Soubise

Born

1 November 1717
Hôtel de Soissons, Paris, France

Died

5 April 1745 (aged 27)
Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, France

Spouse

Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise

Issue
Detail

Victoire, Duchess of Montbazon

Names
Italian: Anna Teresa di Savoia French: Anne Thérèse de Savoie

House

Savoy-Carignano (by birth)

Father

Victor Amadeus of Savoy, Prince of Carignano

Mother

Maria Vittoria Francesca of Savoy

Anne Thérèse of Savoy (1 November 1717 – 5 April 1745) was a Savoyard princess born in Paris, France. She was the second wife of Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise, a military leader and friend of Louis XV. She was also a first half-cousin of Louis sharing the same grandfather Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia.

Biography

Born at the Parisian Hôtel de Soissons, she was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Savoy. Her father was the Prince di Carignano.

Through her mother, she was a granddaughter of the then king Victor Amadeus of Sicily.^[1] Her mother was Maria Vittoria Francesca, legittimata di Savoia, Marchesa di Susa, a legitimised daughter of Victor Amadeus II and his maîtresse-en-titre, Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes.

She grew up in Paris, their parents fleeing the court of Savoy due to embarrassingly large debts. Their parents arrived in Paris during the regency of Philippe d'Orléans (1715–1723), regent of the Kingdom for the infant Louis XV.

Her husband to be was Charles de Rohan, the widower of Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne, a granddaughter of Marie Mancini. As head of the cadet branch of the House of Rohan, Charles bore the titles Prince de Soubise and Duke of Rohan-Rohan. He became a Marshal of France in 1758, and served as a minister to Louis XV and Louis XVI. Orphaned at the age of 9, he was a notorious libertine.^{[citation needed]}

The couple married in the original (vieux) donjon of the château de Rohan in the town of Saverne on 6 November 1741. Presiding over the ceremony was the bridegroom's brother, Armand de Rohan, bishop of Strasbourg. Anne Thérèse had a step-daughter, Charlotte de Rohan, future wife of Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé and grandmother of Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien, an émigré whose seizure and execution by personal order of Napoleon I would shock Europe in 1804.

Anne Thérèse died in childbirth at the Hôtel de Soubise. In December 1745, her widowed husband married again; this time to Landgravine Anna Viktoria of Hesse-Rotenburg.

Issue

Name	Portrait	Lifespan	Notes
Victoire Armande Josèphe de Rohan Duchess de Montbazon		28 December 1743 – 20 September 1807	Born at the Hôtel de Soubise; married Henri de Rohan, Duke de Montbazon and had issue; was the governess of Madame Royale and Monsieur le Dauphin, children of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette;

Ancestry

Ancestors of Princess Anna Theresa of Savoy^[2]

8. Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano

4. Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano

9. Marie, Countess of Soissons

2. Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano

10. Borso d'Este

5. Maria Angelica Caterina d'Este

11. Ippolita d'Este

1. Anne Thérèse of Savoy

12. Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy

6. Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia

13. Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy

3. Maria Vittoria, Marquise of Susa

14. Louis Charles d'Albert, Duke of Luynes

7. Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes

15. Anne de Rohan

References and notes

^ The Kingdom of Sicily was exchanged for the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1720 when Anne Thérèse was three years old
^ 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. 97.

v t e Princesses of Savoy
1st generation	None
2nd generation	Margherita, Duchess of Anjou
3rd generation	Margherita, Countess of Saint-Pol Charlotte, Queen of France Bona, Duchess of Milan
4th generation	Princess Louise Louise, Duchess of Nemours
5th generation	None
6th generation	None
7th generation	Margherita, Vicereine of Portugal Isabella, Hereditary Princess of Modena
8th generation	Luisa Cristina, Princess Maurice of Savoy Margherita Violante, Duchess of Parma Henriette Adelaide, Electress of Bavaria Princess Catherine Beatrice Louise, Hereditary Princess of Baden-Baden Marie Jeanne, Duchess of Savoy Marie Françoise, Queen of Portugal
9th generation	None
10th generation	Maria Adelaide, Dauphine of France Maria Luisa, Queen of Spain Anne Thérèse, Princess of Soubise
11th generation	Princess Eleonora Princess Maria Luisa Princess Maria Felicita Princess Maria Vittoria Margherita Leopoldina, Princess of Melfi Maria Luisa, Princess of Lamballe* Maria Anna Victoria, Duchess in Saxony
12th generation	Princess Maria Elisabetta Carlotta Marie Joséphine, Countess of Provence Maria Teresa, Countess of Artois Maria Anna, Duchess of Chablais Maria Carolina, Electoral Princess of Saxony
13th generation	Maria Beatrice, Duchess of Modena Maria Anna, Empress of Austria Maria Teresa, Duchess of Parma Maria Cristina, Queen of the Two Sicilies Elisabeth, Archduchess of Austria Maria Vittoria, Countess of Syracuse
14th generation	None
15th generation	Maria Clotilde, Princess Napoléon Maria Pia, Queen of Portugal Margherita, Queen of Italy*
16th generation	Bona Margherita, Princess Konrad of Bavaria* Adelaide, Princess Leone Massimo*
17th generation	Princess Yolanda, Countess of Bergolo Mafalda, Landgravine of Hesse Giovanna, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria Maria Francesca, Princess Luis of Parma
18th generation	Maria Pia, Princess Michael of Parma Princess Maria Gabriella, Mrs Zellinger de Balkany Princess Maria Beatrice, Mrs Reyna-Corvalán y Dillon Margherita, Archduchess of Austria-Este**
20th generation	Princess Vittoria of Savoy
* Princess of Savoy-Genoa ** Princess of Savoy-Aosta