Bonaparte
This article is about the family of Napoleon Bonaparte. There is also an article on the 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, 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,
Holland and
Westphalia, and a second French Emperor,
Napoleon III. Supporters of the Bonaparte family's claim to the throne of France are known as
Bonapartists.
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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
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 (
1768-
1844) king first of
Naples and
Sicily (
1806-
1808) and then of
Spain (1808-
1813), his third brother
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
Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern
Germany (
1807-1813).
Napoleon's son
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; his son,
Eugene Bonaparte (
1856-
1879), styled the
Prince Imperial, died fighting the
Zulus in
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.
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Napoleon I (1804-1814,1815), also
King of Italy (1805-1814)
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Napoleon II (1815), styled King of Rome from birth, but never reigned
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Napoleon III (1852-1870)
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Louis I (1806-1810), also Grand Duke of Berg and Celeves (1809-1813)
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Louis II (1810)
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Joseph I (1806-1808), also
King of Spain (1808-1813)
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Joachim I (1808-1815)
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Jérôme I (1807-1813)
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Joseph I (1808-1813)
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:
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Joseph (
Corte 1768-
Florence 1844), King of Naples and Spain, married
Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart,
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)#
Napoléon (1769-1821) Emperor#*Napoleon Joseph (1811-1832)
Napoleon II, son of Archduchess
Marie Louise of
Austria#
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 Jules Laurent Bonaparte ornithologist and politician# Maria-Anna or
Elisa (Ajaccio
1777-near Trieste
1820), grand-duchess of
Tuscany #*5 children#
Louis, (
1778 -
1846) married
Hortense de Beauharnais, Napoleon's stepdaughter#*
Napoleon Charles Bonaparte (
1802-
1807)#*
Napoleon Louis Bonaparte (
1804-
1831)#*
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (
1808-
1873) Emperor, married
Maria Eugenia Ignacia Augustina Palafox de Guzmán Portocarrero y Kirkpatrick#**
Napoleon Eugene Louis John Joseph (
1856-
1879) #Maria Paola or
Pauline (Ajaccio
1780-Florence
1825), married in
1797 to French general
Charles Leclerc and later married Prince
Borghese.#Maria Annunziata or
Caroline, married
Joachim Murat#
Jérôme (Ajaccio
1784-
Massy,
Essonne,
1860), King of Westphalia#*2 children from first marriage, to
Betsey Patterson of
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) #****
Charles Marie Jérôme Victor (*
1950) #*****
Jean (*
1986)#****
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
The current head of the family is the prince Napolėon (
Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Bonaparte, born
1950), great-great-grandson of
Jérôme Bonaparte by his second marriage; he has a son
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, but recognized son
Walewski from his union with
Marie, Countess Walewski.
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History of France*
History of Spain*
History of Italy*
History of the Netherlands*
Napoleon (disambiguation)*
Genealogy of the Bonaparte family
