Eugene Jean, Count of Soissons, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Prince of Savoy
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Eugene Jean, Count of Soissons
- Prince Eugene Jean of Savoy (Eugene Jean François; 23 September 1714 – 23 November 1734) was the last Count of Soissons of the House of Savoy. The only son of Emmanuel Thomas, Count of Soissons (a member of the House of Savoy-Carignano), and Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein, he succeeded to his father's titles, Count of Soissons and Duke of Troppau, when the latter died in 1729.
- In 1731, Eugene Jean became a Knight in the Austrian Order of the Golden Fleece, like his father. In Massa on 10 November 1734 he was married by proxy to Princess Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina (1725–1790), Duchess of Massa and Princess of Carrara in her own right.
- As the bridegroom died thirteen days later in Mannheim, however, the marriage was annulled on the basis that it was never consummated.
- Maria Teresa would later marry Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena. With his death, the title "Count of Soissons" became extinct and reverted to the French crown.
- The title "Duke of Troppau" returned to his mother, whose estates passed to Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein, when she died in 1772.
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