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Prince Eugène-Jean de Savoie-Soissons
Duke of Troppau
(1714–34)

Other names: Eugène-Jean-François

Biographical

Duke of Troppau 1729–34†
4th Duc de Carignan 1729 –34†
5th Comte de Soissons 1729–34†
Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece 1731 [Austria]
Knight of the Holy Order of the Annunciation 1729 [Italy]

General 1733
Austrian colonel

In an ambitious attempt to create a second Savoyard state in central Italy in 1731, and with the intention of it being administered by Eugène-Jean, field marshal Prince Eugène of Savoy began complex negotiations to organise the marriage of his nephew with Princess Maria Teresa Cybo. As a general, he fought against the French at the Rhine. Eugène-Jean tended to keep himself in the company of unsavoury characters and was said to have led a dissolute private life. He died suddenly from syphilis, unmarried.

Place of death: Mannheim

Son of Thomas de Savoie-Soissons and Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein.

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