Career
He was the last male of one of the most historically significant noble families of France. His accidental death before his 25th year extinguished the last but one (ie, the House of Rohan) of France"s most renowned prince étranger families, whose struggles and alliances with the Valois and Bourbon kings of France constitute no small part of the history of the ancien régime. He was killed in a fire at the estate of Leander J. McCormick in Whitchurch, Hampshire, England, at the age of 23.
(The original grant of the dukedom, in July 1563 by Charles IX, stipulated that it was heritable by both male and female successors, although when erected into a pairie by King Henri le Grand in 1599, the letters patent restricted succession to the peerage to male heirs).
The latter"s only son, Jean Charles, bears the same title and name.
