Armand Jules de Rohan-Guéméné

Armand-Jules de Rohan-Guémené
His Grace; Armand-Jules de Rohan-Guémené
	Archbishop-Duke of Reims, Peer of France
Church	Roman Catholic
Archdiocese	Reims
See	Notre Dame de Reims
Installed	6 July 1722
Term ended	28 August 1762
Predecessor	François de Mailly
Successor	Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon
Personal details
Born	10 February 1695; Paris, France
Died	28 August 1762 (aged 67); Saverne, Alsace-Lorraine, France
Nationality	French

Armand-Jules de Rohan-Guémené (Paris, February 10, 1695 - Saverne, August 28, 1762), was a French ecclesiastic, Peer of France and the Archbishop of Reims.

Early life

Prince de Guemene was the fifteenth child of Charles III de Rohan, Prince of Guémene and Duke of Montbazon and his second wife, Charlotte-Elisabeth de Cochefilet (1657-1719), daughter of Charles de Cochefilet of Vauvineux and Françoise-Angélique d'Aubry.

Career

He was admitted early to the Chapter of the Cathedral of Strasbourg. He provided the abbeys of the Gard in the diocese of Amiens (1715), then of Gorge in that of Metz (1730). He became Archbishop of Reims on June 2, 1722, was confirmed on July 6, 1722 and made sacred on August 23, 1722. Gueme anointed Louis XV at his coronation in Reims on 25 October of the same year.

Within his diocese, he exerted a great deal of activity to make the Unigenitus bull accepted but, having taken a seat in the Parliament of Paris as the first ecclesiastical peer, he gradually relied on his Vicars-general to govern the diocese. He nevertheless published a Breviarium in 1759, and died three years later at Saverne.

Iconography

The archbishop is shown dressed in an ample garment reflecting his condition: archbishop's dress, lace flaps, especially ermine, collars and crosses. He sits in a gilt and sculptured armchair that is often found at the artist's. He holds in his left hand the characteristic burette and on the other the dish of a book, standing on his knees. The bottom of the picture shows a column dressed in a heavy animated drape, barely hiding a library in the background. The current location of the original painting is not known, but a print was made in 1739 by Gilles-Edme Petit.[1]

Heraldry

File:Blason Armand Jules de Rohan-Guémené.svg

A Coat of Arms with cartel: in 1 and 4: Gules with golden chains laid in an orle, cross and saltire, loaded in the heart of a natural emerald (which is from Navarre); in 2 and 3: azure with three fleurs de lys d'or (which is from France); on the whole, gone: in 1: Gules with nine twins of gold, placed 3, 3, 3 (which is Rohan); and in 2: of ermine (which is from Brittany).

References

Avec la lettre suivante : « Armandus Julius Princeps de Rohan / Archiepiscopus Dux Remensis / Sacro Chrismate onxit Ludovicum XV die XXV Octobris M.D.CC.X.X.II. Sous le trait carré : Pinxit Hyacinthus Rigaud ordinae Equitum Sto Michaelis / Petit sculpsit M.D.CC.XXX.IX. ». Voir Portalis & Béraldi, Les graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1880-1882, III, p. 300 (n°20); S. Perreau, Hyacinthe Rigaud, le peintre des rois, Montpellier, 2004, p. 218, repr. p. 219, fig. 202.

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[1] Avec la lettre suivante : « Armandus Julius Princeps de Rohan / Archiepiscopus Dux Remensis / Sacro Chrismate onxit Ludovicum XV die XXV Octobris M.D.CC.X.X.II. Sous le trait carré : Pinxit Hyacinthus Rigaud ordinae Equitum Sto Michaelis / Petit sculpsit M.D.CC.XXX.IX. ». Voir Portalis & Béraldi, Les graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1880-1882, III, p. 300 (n°20); S. Perreau, Hyacinthe Rigaud, le peintre des rois, Montpellier, 2004, p. 218, repr. p. 219, fig. 202.