Princess Anna Theresa 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.

Anne Thérèse
Princess of Soubise
Born	(1717-11-01)1 November 1717 Hôtel de Soissons, Paris, France
Died	5 April 1745(1745-04-05) (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

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

1. The Kingdom of Sicily was exchanged for the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1720 when Anne Thérèse was three years old
2. 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.