Type: | Cardinal |
Honorific Prefix: | His Eminence |
Armand de Rohan | |
Cardinal, Bishop of Strasbourg | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Strasbourg |
Term Start: | 9 April 1704 |
Term End: | 19 July 1749 |
Predecessor: | Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg |
Successor: | Cardinal de Soubise |
Other Post: | Cardinal-priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio |
Consecration: | 26 June 1701 |
Consecrated By: | Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg |
Cardinal: | 18 May 1712 |
Created Cardinal By: | Pope Clement XI |
Rank: | Cardinal-priest |
Birth Date: | 24 June 1674 |
Birth Place: | Paris, France |
Death Date: | 19 July 1749 (aged 75) |
Death Place: | Paris, France |
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Armand de Rohan (Armand Gaston Maximilien; 26 June 1674 – 19 July 1749) was a French churchman and politician. He became Bishop of Strasbourg in 1704, Cardinal in 1712 then Grand Almoner of France in 1713 and member of the regency council in 1722.
He constructed the Hôtel de Rohan next to the present day Hôtel de Soubise in which his father lived, employing his father's architect, Pierre-Alexis Delamair. The prince de Rohan was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions in 1701 and of the Académie française in 1703. He was made a commander of the Saint-Esprit in 1713.
He gave last rites (confession, viaticum, and unction) to king Louis XIV.[1]