- Source: Jacqueline de Rohan, Marquise de Rothelin
Jacqueline de" target="_blank">de Rohan, Marquise de" target="_blank">de Rothelin (c. 1520 – 1587) was a French court official and aristocrat. She was the daughter of Charles de" target="_blank">de Rohan and Jeanne de" target="_blank">de Saint-Severin, and regent of the Neufchâtel and of Valangin during the minority of her son Leonor, Duke de" target="_blank">de Longueville, Duke d' Estouteville.
Biography
Jacqueline was the daughter of Charles de" target="_blank">de Rohan and Jeanne de" target="_blank">de Saint-Severin, and regent of the Neufchâtel and of Valangin during the minority of her son Leonor, Duke de" target="_blank">de Longueville, Duke d' Estouteville.
She served as lady-in-waiting to both Eleanor of Austria (fille d'honneur 1531-1536 and Dame d'honneur 1538-1543) and Catherine de" target="_blank">de Medici.
Her husband, Francois of Orleans-Longueville, Marquis de" target="_blank">de Rothelin, died on 25 October 1548, and in watching her son Leonor's interests in Neuchâtel she was brought into contact with the reformers in Switzerland. She then embraced Protestantism and turned her château at Blandy, in Brie, into a refuge for Huguenots.
In 1567 she underwent a term of imprisonment at the Louvre for harbouring Protestants.
Marriage and children
On 19 June 1536, at Lyon, Jacqueline married François of Orléans-Longueville, Marquis de" target="_blank">de Rothelin, Prince of Chalet-Aillon, Viscount of Melun (2 March 1513 – 25 October 1548), son of Louis I d'Orléans, duc de" target="_blank">de Longueville, Duke of Neufchatel, Prince of Chatel-Aillon and Johanna of Baden-Hochberg, Countess of Neufchatel and Margravine of Rothelin, with whom she had:
Leonor, Duke de" target="_blank">de Longueville, Duke d' Estouteville, Prince of the Blood (1540–1573), married in 1563, Marie d'Estouteville, by whom he had issue, including Henri I, 8th Duke de" target="_blank">de Longueville.
Françoise d'Orléans-Longueville (5 April 1549 – 11 June 1601), who was born posthumously. On 8 November 1565, she married Huguenot leader Louis I de" target="_blank">de Bourbon, Prince de" target="_blank">de Condé, as his second wife, by whom she had issue. The House of Savoy-Carignan descended from their union.
References
Sources
Barbier, Jean Paul (2002). Ma Bibliotheque Poetique (in French). Librairie Droz S.A.
Carroll, Stuart (1998). Noble Power During the French Wars of Religion: The Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy. Cambridge University Press.
Vester, Matthew (2012). Renaissance dynasticism and apanage politics : Jacques de" target="_blank">de Savoie-Nemours, 1531-1585. Truman State University Press.