# House of Rohan

The House of Rohan (Breton: Roc'han) is a Breton family of viscounts, later dukes and princes in the French nobility, coming from the locality of Rohan in Brittany. Their line descends from the viscounts of Porhoët and is said to trace back to the legendary Conan Meriadoc. Through the Porhoët family, the Rohans are related to the Dukes of Brittany, with whom the family intermingled again after its inception. During the Middle Ages, it was one of the most powerful families in the Duchy of Brittany. The Rohans developed ties with the French and English royal houses as well, and they played an important role in French and European history.
The only surviving line of the family is the branch of Rohan-Rochefort, Dukes of Montbazon, Dukes of Bouillon and Austrian Princes of Rohan, who migrated in the early 19th century to what is now Austria.
Following his marriage in 1645 with Marguerite de Rohan, only daughter of Henri II de Rohan, first Duke of Rohan (who died in 1638 with no male heir), Henri Chabot, a descendant of the eldest branch of the House of Chabot from Poitou, was made Duke of Rohan in 1648 and allowed to use the name of Rohan-Chabot instead of his own, thus giving rise to the House of Rohan-Chabot.

## Origins

The family of Rohan claimed descent from the first kings of Brittany, and even from the legendary ruler Conan Meriadoc.
The Rohans were descended from the Viscounts of Porhoët. According to J.-P. Soubigou, the first known viscount, Guethenoc (fl. 1028), was probably Viscount of Rennes as well and connected to the nobility of the Loire region, but he could have belonged to a Breton line holding estates around Josselin, where he built a castle.
Guethenoc's son Josselin I († 1074) took part in the Norman Conquest of England. He was granted lands in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Gloucestershire, as well as the town of Caerwent. He was the father of Mainguy, Bishop of Vannes, and Odo I, Viscount of Porhoët, Rohan and Guéméné († after 1092), who married Anne of Léon and had several sons – Geoffrey, who inherited the viscounty of Porhoët, and Alain I the Black (1084–1147), Viscount of Rohan and Castelnoec (fl. 1127), who built the castle of Rohan and was the first member of the House of Rohan.

## History

From the 12th century to the 15th century, the Rohans kept securing and increasing their estates through marriages, acquisitions, inheritances, bequests and exchanges. Thus they became rivals of the Dukes of Brittany all through the Middle Ages, according to their interest, sometimes carrying out the most important charges of the Duchy faithfully, sometimes rebelling, as John II of Rohan did in the last years of Breton independence. The "great viscount", then more powerful than ever, controlled nearly 200,000 Bretons on about a fifth of the Breton territory. The heart of the viscounty of Rohan is made of the rohannais triangle (the three large fortresses of La Chèze, Josselin and Pontivy) whose center is the village of Rohan, the family's nominal fief whose castle is abandoned in favor of the other three.
To counter the power of the immense fiefs of the Rohan and Rieux families, which divided the Armorican peninsula into two equal parts, the Breton dukes denied them access to the coasts and blocked them in the eastern part of the duchy through the fortresses of the Marches of Neustria#Breton March, whose main strongholds were Rennes and Nantes. The Rohans, then unpopular in a very Breton-tradition environment, were neutralized for the time being, and struck back only with the French army's direct support during the campaign of 1487 in the French–Breton War, which was marked by internal divisions among the barons of Brittany (Rohan, Rieux, Laval...) who constantly changed sides. In winter 1487–1488, John II was encircled by the ducal troops: his strongholds of La Chèze, Josselin, Rohan and Pontivy fell one after another in March 1488. The viscount was still coveting the ducal crown for his son but failed. In 1491, the marriage between Anne of Brittany and Charles VIII initiated the annexation of the duchy to the French crown, a union that was permanently ratified in 1532.
The Rohan family married several times into the Breton ducal family, the last time in 1407.
Henry II of Rohan chose Pontivy as the capital city of his fief. The chief of the Protestant party during Marie de' Medici's regency Louis XIII's reign, he was one of the greatest captains of his time.
In the 17th century, members of the Rohan family began to use their genealogy and their power at the French Court to obtain the rank of prince étranger, thus coming second after the princes du sang before all dukes and peers. Their aim was to prove that the former Kings of Brittany effectively ruled and that the Rohans are directly descended from them.
These two assertions were difficult to establish at the time and are not used in the 21st-century historiography. The Rohans then applied themselves to giving credence to this version through historians such as Dom Morice, but also through favour, forcing and violating history if needed. The Rohans had to force their claims through thanks to forged evidence (a common practice in these aristocratic families in the ancien régime).
This operation remained uncertain, the Dukes and peers of France being watchful, and the Rohans secured their position through other means: alliances with other families of princes étrangers exclusively (Lorraine, La Tour d'Auvergne and Condé), elevation of their estates into principalities, legally or not (Guéméné, Soubise, Lordship of Léon), accession to the Bishopric of Strasbourg, giving them the rank of Prince of the Empire, and the use of royal favor and their closeness to the kings (Louis XIV and Madame de Soubise, Louis XV and the Marshal of Soubise, Louis XVI and Madame de Marsan, governess of the Children of France).
In spite of attacks from rival families, the Rohans managed to base their power and impose their historical and genealogical views, which provided them with positions allowing them to secure their power and credit at Court. The greatest closeness to the King was then acquired and could not be questioned any more.

## Descent tree

The family of Rohan has a long documented history, with close ties to the Dukes of Brittany.
For more detailed branches, see below.

## Branches of the House of Rohan
### Rohan-Guéméné branch

This branch was descended (c. 1375) from John I (1324–1396), Viscount of Rohan, and his wife Joan of Évreux (a.k.a. Joan of Navarre) (1339–1409).
It is named after the town of Guémené-sur-Scorff (Morbihan).
This branch of Rohan-Guéméné still exists through its junior branch, the Rohan-Rochefort family.

### Rohan-Rochefort branch

This family is a junior branch of the Rohan-Guéméné branch through Charles de Rohan-Guémené, a.k.a. Charles de Rohan-Rochefort (1693–1766), who took the title of Prince of Rochefort.
The family of Rohan-Rochefort, which migrated to Austria in the early 19th century, is nowadays the last remaining branch of the House of Rohan. It holds the genuine titles of Duke of Montbazon (1588, France), Duke of Bouillon (1816, Congress of Vienna), Prince of Rohan and Prince of the Holy Roman Empire with the style of Serene Highness (Durchlaucht), confirmed in 1808 by Emperor Francis II for all the members of the family. The head of the family was (since 1861) a hereditary member of the House of Lords of Austria.

### Rohan-Soubise branch

This family descended from the Rohan-Guéméné branch in 1630, with the estates of Soubise (in Poitou) and the Parc-Soubise (in Mouchamps, Vendée) coming from the Rohan-Chabot family through an alliance between the two branches.
Charles de Rohan-Soubise, a.k.a. the Marshal of Soubise (1715–1787), Prince of Soubise and Marshal of France, and his daughter Charlotte Godefride Élisabeth de Rohan-Soubise (1737–1760), wife of the Prince of Condé Louis V Joseph de Bourbon-Condé (1736–1818), belonged to this branch of the family.
From 1717 onward, the head of this branch was styled Duke of Rohan-Rohan. For Hercule Mériadec de Rohan-Soubise (1669–1749), the estate of Frontenay-l'Abattu (département of Deux-Sèvres, Poitou) was erected in 1717 into a pairie-duché called the Duchy of Rohan-Rohan, to differentiate it from the title of Duke of Rohan held by the House of Rohan-Chabot.
This branch became extinct in the Rohan-Guéméné family in 1807.

### Rohan-Gié branch

This family is descended from the Rohan-Guéméné branch in 1541. It is named after the town of Gyé-sur-Seine (Aube).
Peter II of Rohan-Gié (†1525) married in 1517 Anne of Rohan (1485–1529) heiress of the eldest branch, and through this marriage became Viscount of Rohan, Lord of Léon and Count of Porhoët. His son, René of Rohan-Gié (1516–1552) married in 1534 Isabeau of Albret, a.k.a. Isabeau de Navarre (1512–1570) and was the father of René II, Viscount of Rohan and Lord of Léon († 1586) head of the Protestant party in France.
This branch became extinct in 1638 with Henry II of Rohan first Duke of Rohan (1603), who married Marguerite de Béthune (1595–1660), daughter of Maximilien I de Béthune-Sully (1559–1641). His only daughter Marguerite de Rohan (1617–1684) married in 1645 Henri Chabot (1615–1655) and gave birth to the Rohan-Chabot family.

### Rohan-Gué-de-l'Isle branch

The Rohan-Gué-de-l'Isle branch is a junior branch said to be descended (c. 1270) from Alan VI (1232–1304), Viscount of Rohan, and his second wife Thomasse of La Roche-Bernard (c. 1245 – after 1304). It is named after the estate of Saint-Étienne-du-Gué-de-l'Isle (Côtes-d'Armor).
The branch was extinct around 1530.

### Rohan-Polduc branch

Also called Rohan-Pouldu. This little-known branch is a junior branch of the Rohan-Gué-de-l'Isle branch and appeared around 1500. It was named after the estate of Pouldu near Pontivy (nowadays Saint-Jean-Brévelay). Its best-known member is Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc, Magister Magnus of the Knights Hospitaller from 1775 to 1797.
The branch became extinct in 1800.
* John II of Rohan-Gué-de-l'Isle (?–1517), married (1500) Guillemette Malor'
** Tristan de Rohan-Gué-de-l'Isle (Tristan de Rohan-Polduc), married Alix de Brebant
*** Louis de Rohan-Polduc (?–1584), married (1577) Michelle de L'Hospital
**** Samsonne de Rohan-Polduc, married François Josset
**** Jérôme de Rohan-Polduc, married (1610) Julienne Le Métayer
***** Anne de Rohan-Polduc, married (1638) Jean de Coëtlagat
***** Isaac de Rohan-Polduc, married (1638) Aliénor de Kerpoisson
****** Anne de Rohan-Polduc, married François de Broel
****** Jean de Rohan-Polduc (?–1726), married (1690) Marie de Trello
****** Jean-Baptiste I de Rohan-Polduc (?–1711), married (1690) Pélagie Martin, Mady of Châteaulin
******* Jean-Baptiste II de Rohan-Polduc (1675–1755), married (1723) Marie Louise de Velthoven
******** Jean-Baptiste de Rohan-Polduc (1724–1782))
******** Marie Pélagie de Rohan-Polduc (1724–1753), married (1737) François de Groesquer, Count of Groesquer
******** Emmanuel Marie-des-Neiges de Rohan-Polduc (1725–1797), ambassador, général des galères, baillif of Justice, general of the land and naval forces, Knight Hospitaller, Magister Magnus of the Knights Hospitaller
******** Jean Léonard de Rohan-Polduc (?–1748)

### Rohan-Montauban branch

This branch is said to be descended from Josselin of Rohan, son of Alan III, Viscount of Rohan and his second wife Françoise de Corbey around 1185, but its filiation has not been proven. It became extinct around 1494. Named after the estate of Montauban-de-Bretagne near Rennes. Several Seneschals and Marshals of Brittany belonged to this branch.
This branch became extinct in the Rohan-Guéméné branch in 1494.

## House of Rohan-Chabot

The House of Rohan-Chabot is the eldest branch of the Chabot family, from Poitou. It is descended from the House of Rohan in female line through the marriage of Marguerite de Rohan (1617–1684) (only daughter and heiress of Henry II, Duke of Rohan) with Henri Chabot (1616–1655), from the eldest branch of the Chabot de Jarnac family, in 1645. Henri Chabot was created Duke of Rohan in 1648 by Louis XIV, and his descendants bear the name Rohan-Chabot.

## Portraits

* Marguerite de Rohan (v. 1330–1406) and her husband the Constable of Clisson
* Pierre de Rohan-Guéméné, also known as Marshal of Gié (1451–1513), Marshal of France
* Jacqueline de Rohan-Gié (1520–1587), Lady of Blandy-les-Tours, Marchionness of Rothelin, Princess of Neuchâtel
* Claude de Rohan-Gié, Countess of Thoury
* Henri II de Rohan (1579–1638) viscount then Duke of Rohan, Prince of Léon, Generalissimo of the Protestant armies, Ambassador of France, Colonel-général des Suisses et des Grisons
* Benjamin de Rohan, also known as "the Duke of Soubise" (1583–1642) Duke of Frontenay
* Marie Aimée de Rohan-Guéméné (1600–1679), Duchess of Luynes and Chevreuse
* Marguerite de Rohan (1617–1684), Princess of Léon
* Louis de Rohan-Guéméné, also known as "the Knight of Rohan" (1635–1674), Grand Huntsman of France, Louis XIV's Colonel of the Guards
* Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan-Soubise (1674–1749) Prince of Rohan, Prince of Soubise, Bishop of Strasbourg, Cardinal, member of the Académie Française, Grand Almoner of France
* Armand Jules de Rohan-Guéméné (1695–1762) Duke-Archbishop of Reims and Peer of France
* Louis César Constantin de Rohan-Guéméné, also known as "the Cardinal de Rohan" (1697–1779), Bishop of Strasbourg, Cardinal
* Charles de Rohan-Soubise, also known as "the Marshal of Soubise" (1715–1787) Prince of Soubise, Duke of Rohan-Rohan, minister of Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, Marshal of France
* Charlotte Louise de Rohan-Guéméné, Princess of Masseran, also known as "Mademoiselle de Rohan" (1722–1786)
* Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc (1725–1797), ambassador, Général des galères, Knight Hospitaller, Magister Magnus of the Knights Hospitaller
* Louise de Rohan-Rochefort (1734–1815)
* Louis René Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné (1734–1803), Prince of Rohan, Cardinal, Archbishop of Strasbourg, member of the Académie française, Grand Almoner of the King and Head of the Sorbonne
* Charlotte de Rohan-Soubise (1737–1760), Princess of Condé
* Victoire Armande Josèphe de Rohan-Soubise also known as "Madame de Guéméné" (1743–1807), Princess of Maubuisson
* Charles Alain Gabriel de Rohan-Guéméné (1764–1836), Duke of Montbazon, Prince of Guéméné, Duke of Bouillon
* Charlotte de Rohan-Rochefort (1767–1841), wife the Duc d'Enghien
* Jules Armand Louis de Rohan-Guéméné (1768–1836)
* Marie Victoire de Rohan (1779–1836)

## Notable members

Several members of the Rohan-Guéméné family migrated to Sychrov Castle in northern Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire, and were naturalized. After this branch became extinct in 1846, the princes of Rohan-Rochefort younger branch inherited the properties in Bohemia but were deprived of them in 1945, following the Beneš decrees. They also inherited the titles Serene Highness, Prince of Rohan, Prince of Guéméné, Prince of Rochefort and Prince of the Holy-Roman-Empire (in Austria until 1919), Duke of Rohan-Rohan, Duke of Montbazon with the Peerage of France attached to it, and Duke of Bouillon.
There were three Grand Almoners of France, eight Knights of the Order of the Holy Spirit, two Marshals of France, and three members of the Académie Française in the family.

### Clergy

* Geoffrey II of Rohan (? – c. 1377), Bishop of Vannes, then Saint-Brieuc.
* Josselin de Rohan (? – Saint-Malo, 21 March 1388), Bishop of Saint-Malo.
* Francis II of Rohan-Gié (1480 – Paris, 13 October 1536), [Bishop of Angers (1501–1532) and Archbishop of Lyon (1532–1536).
* Claude of Rohan (1480 – 8 July 1540), Bishop of Quimper and Cornouaille.
* Armand-Gaston-Maximilien de Rohan-Soubise (Paris, 26 June 1674 – Paris, 19 July 1749), who may have actually been an illegitimate son of Louis XIV, Prince of Rohan, Bishop of Strasbourg in 1704, he became cardinal in 1712, then Grand Almoner in 1713. He was elected at the Académie Française in 1704.
* Armand-Jules de Rohan-Guéméné (Paris, 10 February 1695 – Saverne, 28 August 1762), abbot of Gard and Gorze, Duke-Archbishop of Reims, who anointed Louis XV, peer of France
* Louis-César Constantin de Rohan-Guéméné, also known as "the Cardinal of Rohan" (Paris, 24 March 1697 – Paris, 11 March 1779), Bishop of Strasbourg in 1756, appointed cardinal in 1761.
* François-Armand de Rohan-Soubise (Paris, 1 December 1717 – Saverne, 28 June 1756), Coadjutor Bishop to his uncle Armand-Gaston. He took the name Soubise to be distinguishable from him; he became a cardinal himself in 1747 and Bishop of Strasbourg in 1749. He was Grand Almoner and Chancellor of the University of Paris. He was elected at the Académie Française in 1741.
* Louis-René-Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné (Paris, 25 September 1734 – Ettenheim, 17 February 1803), Prince of Rohan, cardinal-Archbishop of Strasbourg, Grand Almoner of the King and Head of the Sorbonne. He was involved in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace and was sent to the Bastille. He went into exile in 1791 to Ettenheim, in the German part of his diocese, and married his niece Charlotte de Rohan-Rochefort to the Duc d'Enghien. He died in February 1803. He was elected at the Académie Française in 1761.
* Ferdinand de Rohan-Guéméné (Paris, 7 November 1738 – Paris, 31 October 1813), Prince of Rohan-Guéméné, Archbishop of Bordeaux in 1769, Prince-Archbishop of Cambrai in 1781 and of Liège in 1790. He was First Almoner to Empress Joséphine in the early 19th century.

### Soldiers

* Pierre de Rohan-Guéméné, also known as Pierre I de Rohan-Gié or the "Marshal of Gié" (Saint-Quentin-les-Anges, 1451 – Paris, 22 April 1513), Lord of Gié, viscount of Fronsac, Marshal of France. He was a diplomat and councillor of the kings Louis XI, Charles VIII and Louis XII. He was charged with treason in 1504. In 1506, Pierre de Rohan-Gié was suspended for five years and exiled from the Court. He was later absolved of the crime of lèse-majesté.
* Henri II de Rohan (Blain, 25 August 1579 – Geneva, 28 February 1638), peer of France, viscount, then Duke of Rohan, Prince of Léon, Lord of Blain, Generalissimo of the Protestant armies, Ambassador of France, Colonel Général des Suisses et des Grisons. A Protestant, he fought in the south of France against the royal troops between 1615 and 1629. He was pardoned by Louis XIII, took the Valtellina from the Spanish and was mortally wounded while fighting for the Duke of Saxe-Weimar on 13 April 1638 at the battle of Koenigsfeld. He was buried in Geneva cathedral.
* Charles de Rohan-Soubise, also known as the Marshal de Soubise (Versailles, 16 July 1715 – Paris, 1 July 1787), Prince of Soubise and Épinoy, Duke of Rohan-Rohan, Ventadour and GoëloCount of Saint-Pol, Lord of Roberval and Clisson, minister of the kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, Marshal of France. Louis XV's general and friend, he took part to the Seven Years' War.
* Hercule Mériadec de Rohan (13 November 1688 – 21 December 1757), Duke of Montbazon, Prince of Guéméné, standard-bearer of the Gendarmes de la Garde.
* Jules Hercule Mériadec de Rohan (25 March 1726 – 10 December 1788), Duke of Montbazon, Prince of Guéméné, chief-lieutenant of the King's armies.
* Henri-Louis de Rohan-Guéméné (30 August 1745-24 April 1809), Prince of Rohan-Guéméné and Duke of Montbazon, lieutenant-captain of the Gendarmes de la Garde, Brigadier of the King's armies, Grand Chamberlain of France. The eldest of this branch, he went bankrupt and ruined many people in 1782, but his debts were partially paid off by the Cardinal of Strasbourg Louis-René-Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné who was a victim in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace in 1785.

### Politicians

* John II of Rohan (16 November 1452 – Blain, 1 April 1516), Viscount of Rohan and Léon, Count of Porhoët, Lord of Blain, La Garnache and Beauvoir-sur-Mer, councillor and chamberlain of King Charles VIII, chief-lieutenant of Brittany in 1494 with Francis of Avaugour under Charles VIII.
* Marie-Aimée de Rohan-Guéméné (Coupvray, December 1600 – 12 August 1679), first Duchess of Luynes through her marriage with Charles d'Albert (1578–1621), Duke of Luynes, Grand Constable of France, Peer of France, then Duchess of Chevreuse (the title she is best known for) through her marriage with Claude de Lorraine, also known as Claude de Guise (1578–1657), Duke of Chevreuse; she became known as Princess of Chevreuse during her widowhood.
* Charles III of Rohan (30 September 1655 – 10 October 1727), Duke of Montbazon, Prince of Guéméné, Peer of France.
* Emmanuel-Marie-des-Neiges de Rohan-Polduc (18 April 1725 – La Valette, 14 July 1797), last member of the Rohan-Polduc branch (or Pouldu branch), he was the last but one Magister Magnus of the Knights Hospitaller from 1775 to 1797, author of the "Maltese Code" also called "Code de Rohan".
* Alain Benjamin Arthur de Rohan-Rochefort [fr] (8 January 1853 – 23 February 1914), Duke of Montbazon, Duke of Bouillon, Prince of Guéméné, member of the Herrenhaus, deputy at the Parliament of Bohemia.
* Marie-Berthe Françoise Félicie Jeanne de Rohan-Rochefort (21 May 1868 – 19 January 1945), wife of Charles de Bourbon (1848–1909), Duke of Madrid, pretender to the throne of France and eldest of the House of Bourbon.
* Albert-Marie de Rohan-Rochefort, also known as Albert Rohan (Melk, 9 May 1936 – 4 June 2019), Prince of Guéméné, Austrian diplomat.

### Others

* Louis de Rohan-Guéméné, also known as the Knight of Rohan (1635 – Paris, 27 November 1674), Grand Huntsman of France, Colonel of the Guards of Louis XIV, with whom he had been brought up. Executed for a crime lèse-majesté, having taken part in the Conspiracy of Latréaumont.
* Hercule Mériadec de Rohan (1669–1749)
* Charles, Prince of Soubise
* Victoire de Rohan
* Marie de Rohan (1600–1679), French courtier and political activist, depicted in Maria di Rohan
* Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc (1725–1797), 70th Prince an Grand Master of the Order of St. John
* Charles Edward Stuart, Count Roehenstart (c. 1784–1854), passive Jacobite claimant to the British throne
* Berthe de Rohan (1868–1945), titular Queen Consort of Spain, France and Navarre
* Marie-Liesse de Rohan-Chabot, contracted marriage (civil 19 June 1999, religious 10 July 1999) with Prince Eudes of Orléans, Duke of Angoulême, youngest son of Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France, the late Orleanist claimant to the throne of France.

## Arms

The mascles on the arms of the House of Rohan refer to crystal twinnings, which are large crystals of chiastolite (andalusite) that develop in Ordovician schists. They are almost square-sectioned prisms. These stones, which were for centuries called "mascles", abound in the Salles de Rohan, so much that the Viscounts of Rohan, stricken by their beauty and the likeness with the lozenge, put seven mascles or on their coat of arms; their descendants added two more in the middle of the 16th century.

### Former arms

Used by Geoffrey of Rohan between 1216 and 1222: gules, seven mascles or, 3, 3, 1.

### Modern arms

Used by Henry I of Rohan between 1552 and 1575. The change from the old arms to the modern ones can be explained by the change of the shape of shields from the 14th century: the base is now flat, not pointed, and the empty space is filled by two new mascles.

### Motto

A plus: battle cry which may mean "without more", that is to say, without superior, reminding the Rohans' claim to be the second most important Breton noble family after the Ducal family, or "even more", which would be an invitation to always surpass themselves is Alan IX's personal motto, often attributed to the whole family. It is symbolized by the letter A topped with a Ducal crown accompanying the mascles on the coat of arms.
Another, apocryphal motto, modelled on that of the House of Coucy, is often attributed to the Rohans: Duc je ne daigne, Roi je ne puis, Prince de Bretaigne, de Rohan je suis (Duke I will not, King I cannot, Prince of Brittany, of Rohan I am) or more often: Roi ne puis, duc ne daigne, Rohan suis (King I cannot, Duke I will not, Rohan I am). Roland Barthes will use this model in a joke: Then all writers will say: "Insane I cannot, Sane I will not, neurotic I am.".
Another motto: Rather dead than soiled (Latin: Potius mori quam foedari) which is the motto of the old Dukes of Brittany, the Rohans having been their heirs presumptive since 1532 and the treaty of perpetual Union between Brittany and France.

## Titles

The members of the Rohan family were first styled viscount of Porhoët, the viscount of Rohan and were granted the following titles:
* Comte de Montbazon (1566)
* Prince de Guéménée (1570)
* Duchesse de Loudun (1579) title held in her lifetime by Françoise de Rohan, daughter of René I of Rohan
* Duc-pair de Montbazon (1588 et 1594)
* Duc de Rohan (1603)
* Comte de Montauban (1611)
* Duc-pair de Frontenay (1626, not recorded)
* Prince de Soubise (erected in 1667 but not recorded)
* Duc de Rohan-Rohan (1714, extinct 1787)
* Comte de l'Empire (1808)
* Pair de France (1814)
* Pair héréditaire (1815)
* Duc pair (1817)
* Prince du Saint-Empire and Serene Highness (Austria 1808 and 1830)
* Duc de Bouillon (1814 and 1816 through succession of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne)
The family's many branches held the titles of Prince de Léon, Prince de Montauban, Prince de Rochefort, etc. although none of these titles were genuinely created.

## Estates

* Rohan Castle in Saverne (now a museum)
* Palais Rohan in Strasbourg for the bishop-princes (it now hosts three museums)
* Episcopal palace of Bordeaux (now the city hall)
* Josselin Castle (Morbihan)
* Pontivy Castle (Morbihan)
* La Roche-Maurice Castle (Finistère)
* Château de Joyeuse Garde in La Forest-Landerneau (Finistère)
* Château de Mortiercrolles in Saint-Quentin-les-Anges (Mayenne)
* Château du Verger in Seiches-sur-le-Loir (Maine-et-Loire)
* Château de Blain (Loire-Atlantique)
* Château du Gué de Lisle (Côtes-d'Armor)
* Coupvray Castle (Seine-et-Marne)
* Hôtel de Rohan in Soubise (now the town hall)
* Rochefort-en-Yvelines Castle (Yvelines)
* Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine Castle (Indre-et-Loire)
* Sychrov Castle (Bohemia)
* Palais Rohan in Prague (Czech Republic)
* Palais Rohan in Vienna (Austria)
* The Hôtel de Rohan (also known as Hôtel de Rohan-Strasbourg for it used to be the residence of the bishops belonging the branch living in Strasbourg — see supra: Clergy) and the Hôtel de Soubise, in Le Marais, which form an ensemble that hosts part of the Archives Nationales nowadays.
* The Hôtel de Rohan-Guémené, also known as the "Maison de Victor Hugo" (who lived only in a small part of the hôtel), is located at 6 Place des Vosges and went to the rue des Tournelles and the Impasse Guéménée.
* The Hôtel de Rohan-Montbazon, 29 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
* The Hôtel de Soubise in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, now Café "Le Soubise".