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:''This article is about the family of
Napoleon I of France Napoleon Bonaparte. There is also an article on the
Argentina Argentinian paleontologist,
José Bonaparte. For the Olympic medallist, see
Bonaparte (horse).''
Of
Corsican origin, the '''Bonaparte''' (originally '''Buonaparte''') family is the family of
Napoleon I of France Napoleon I, who was elected as first consul of
France on
November 10,
1799 with the help of his brother,
Lucien Bonaparte, president of the
Council of Five Hundred at
Saint-Cloud.
Napoleon I was crowned
Emperor of the French
1804-
1814,
1815; the Bonaparte family also provided kings of
Spain,
Naples,
Kingdom of Holland Holland and
Kingdom of Westphalia Westphalia, and a second French Emperor,
Napoleon III of France Napoleon III. Supporters of the Bonaparte family's claim to the throne of France are known as
Bonapartists.
Image:Buonaparte2.jpg thumb|The original arms of the Buonapartes
The family originally came from
Florence. The first Buonaparte to move to Corsica was
Francesco Buonaparte, who moved there in the
16th century, when Corsica was a
Genoa Genoese possession. The arms of the Buonaparte family were: ''Gules two bends sinister between two stars or''. In
1804 Napoleon changed the arms to ''Azure an imperial eagle or''. The change applied to all members of his family except for his brother Lucien, and the son of Jerome's first marriage.
Following his conquest of most of
Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother
Joseph Bonaparte Joseph (
1768-
1844) king first of
Naples and
Sicily (
1806-
1808) and then of
Spain (1808-
1813), his third brother
Louis Bonaparte Louis (
1778-
1846) king of Holland (
1806-
1810) (subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France) and his youngest brother
Jérôme Bonaparte (
1784-
1860) king of
Kingdom of Westphalia Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern
Germany (
1807-1813).
Napoleon's son
Napoleon II of France Napoleon Joseph (
1811-
1832) was created king of
Rome (
1811-
1814) and was later styled Napoleon II by loyalists of the dynasty, though he never actually ruled as Emperor. Charles Louis Napoleon (
1808-
1873), son of Louis Napoleon, was president of France in
1848-
1852 and emperor in
1852-
1870, reigning as
Napoleon III of France Napoleon III; his son,
Eugene Bonaparte (
1856-
1879), styled the
Prince Imperial, died fighting the
Zulus in
KwaZulu-Natal Province Natal,
South Africa. With his death, the family lost much of its remaining political appeal, though claimants continued to assert their right to the imperial title.
Crowns held by the family
First French Empire Emperors of the French
*
Napoleon I of France Napoleon I (1804-1814,1815), also
King of Italy (1805-1814)
*
Napoleon II of France Napoleon II (1815), styled King of Rome from birth, but never reigned
*
Napoleon III of France Napoleon III (1852-1870)
Kingdom of Holland Kings of Holland
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Louis Bonaparte Louis I(1806-1810), also Grand Duke of Berg and Celeves (1809-1813)
*
Louis II of Holland Louis II (1810)
Kingdom of Naples Kings of Naples
*
Joseph Bonaparte Joseph I (1806-1808), also
King of Spain (1808-1813)
*
Joachim Murat Joachim I (1808-1815)
The family tree
Carlo Buonaparte Carlo-Maria (
Ajaccio 1746-
Montpellier 1785) married
Maria Letizia Ramolino (Ajaccio
1750 - Rome
1836) in
1764. He was a minor official in the local courts. They had eight children:
#
Joseph Bonaparte Joseph (
Corte 1768-
Florence, Italy Florence 1844), King of Naples and Spain, married
Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart,
Désirée Clary Désirée, who was to become the wife of
Charles XIV of Sweden.
#*3 daughters:
#*
Julie Joséphine Bonaparte (
1796-
1796)
#*
Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte (
1801-
1854)
#*
Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte (
1802-
1839)
#
Napoleon I of France Napoléon (1769-1821) Emperor
#*Napoleon Joseph (1811-1832)
Napoleon II, son of Archduchess
Marie Louise of
Austria
#
Lucien Bonaparte Lucien (
Ajaccio 1775-
Viterbo 1840)
#*2 daughters with first wife, Katherina Boyer
#*10 children with second wife, Alexandrine von Bleschamps, including:
#*
Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte
#*
Louis Lucien Bonaparte
#*
Charles Lucien Bonaparte Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte ornithologist and politician
# Maria-Anna or
Elisa Bonaparte Elisa (Ajaccio
1777-near Trieste
1820), grand-duchess of
Tuscany
#*5 children
#
Louis Bonaparte Louis, (
1778 -
1846) married
Hortense de Beauharnais, Napoleon's stepdaughter
#*
Napoleon Charles Bonaparte (
1802-
1807)
#*
Napoleon Louis Bonaparte (
1804-
1831)
#*
Napoleon III Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (
1808-
1873) Emperor, married
Empress Eugénie Maria Eugenia Ignacia Augustina Palafox de Guzmán Portocarrero y Kirkpatrick
#**
Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial Napoleon Eugene Louis John Joseph (
1856-
1879)
#Maria Paola or
Pauline Bonaparte Pauline (Ajaccio
1780-Florence
1825), married in
1797 to French general
Charles Leclerc and later married Prince
Borghese.
#Maria Annunziata or
Caroline Bonaparte Caroline, married
Joachim Murat
#
Jérôme Bonaparte Jérôme (Ajaccio
1784-
Massy,
Essonne,
1860), King of Westphalia
#*2 children from first marriage, to
Elizabeth Patterson Betsey Patterson of
Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore, including:
#*
Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte, married
Susan May Williams
#**2 sons:
#**
Charles Joseph Bonaparte,
U.S. Attorney General
#**
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II, married
Caroline Le Roy Appleton Edgar
#***2 children:
#***
Louise-Eugénie Bonaparte (
1873-
1923), married in
1896 Count
Adam Carl von Moltke-Huitfeld (
1864-
1944)
#***
Jerome Napoleon Charles Bonaparte (1878-1945), married in
1914 Blanche Pierce Stenbeigh: no children.
#*3 children from second marriage, to
Catharina of Württemberg, including:
#*
Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (
September 9th 1822 -
March 18th 1891), called ''Plon-Plon'' ∞
Marie Clothilde (
1843-
1911), daughter of
Victor Emanuel II of Italien
#**
Napoléon Victor Jérôme Frédéric Bonaparte (
July 18th 1862 -
May 3rd 1926) ∞
Clémentine Albertine Marie Léopoldine of Belgium (
1872-
1955)
#***
Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (
1914-
1997)
#****
Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte the 2nd Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (*
1950)
#*****Jean (*
1986)
#****
Jérôme Bonaparte the 2nd Jérôme Bonaparte (*
1957)
#**
Luis Bonaparte (
July 16th 1864 -
October 14th 1932) - russ. general
#**
Laetitia Bonaparte (
December 20th 1866 -
October 24th 1926)
#*
Mathilde Bonaparte, married Prince
Anatole Demidoff di San Donato: no children
#*
Marie Bonaparte,Napoleon's great-great-grand-niece
Current descendants
The current head of the family is the prince Napoleon (
Charles Bonaparte (Pretender) Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Bonaparte, born
1950), great-great-grandson of
Jérôme Bonaparte by his second marriage; he has a son
Jean Bonaparte Jean (born
1986) and a brother, Jérôme Bonaparte, (born
1957), unmarried. There are no remaining descendants in male line from any other of Napoleon's brothers. There are, however, numerous descendants of Napoleon's illegitimate son
Walewski from his union with
Rachel Félix.
See also
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History of France
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History of Spain
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History of Italy
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History of the Netherlands
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Napoleon (disambiguation)
External links
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Genealogy of the Bonaparte family
Category:House of Bonaparte *
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| Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial Prince Napoleon
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