BONAPARTE
The present members of this family bear the title Prince[ss] Napoléon, Imperial Highness. The titles of past
members are as indicated.
Carlo Maria Buonaparte (Bonaparte) (
1a) Napoleone, b.and d.Corte 1765
2a) Maria Anna, b.Corte 3 Jan 1767, d.in infancy
3a) Joseph, Prince français (Imperial Highness) 1804,
King of Naples and Sicily 30 Mar 1806-6 Jun 1808, King of Spain and the Indies
6 Jun 1808-11 Dec 1813, assumed the title Cte de Survilliers 1815 (Corte 7 Jan
1768-Florence 28 Jul 1844); m.Cuges 1 Aug 1794 Julie Clary (Marseilles 26 Dec
1771-Florence 7 Apr 1845)
1b) Julie Joséphine, b.and
d.Genoa Mar 1796
2b) Zénaïde Laetitia Julie, Pss
française (Imperial Highness) 1804, Infanta of
3b) Charlotte Napoléone, Pss
française (Imperial Highness) 1804, Infanta of
4a) Napoléon, proclaimed Emperor NAPOLÉON I of the French
18 May 1804, abdicated 11 Apr 1814, returned 12 Mar 1815, abdicated again 22
Jun 1815 (Ajaccio 15 Aug 1769-Longwood, St.Helena 5 May 1821); m.1st
(civ) Paris 9 Mar 1796 (rel) Palais de Tuileries 30 Oct 1804 (div 1809, rel
annulled 1810) Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie (Trois Ilets, Martinique 24 Jun
1763-Malmaison 29 May 1814); m.2nd by proxy at Vienna 11 Mar 1810
and in person (civ) St.Cloud 1 Apr 1810 (rel) Louvre 2 Apr 1810 Maria Louise
Archdss of Austria (Vienna 12 Dec 1791-Vienna 17 Dec 1847)
1b) NAPOLÉON II François Joseph
Charles, Emperor of the French (so recognized by some from his father's second
abdication until he was deposed
5a) Maria Anna (
6a) Lucien, Pr français (Imperial Highness) 22 Mar 1815,
Pr di Canino 18 Aug 1814, Pr di Musignano 21 Mar 1824 (both papal titles)
(Ajaccio 21 Mar 1775-Viterbo 29 Jun 1840); m.1st St.Maximin 4 May
1794 Christine Boyer (St.Maximin 6 Jul 1773-Paris 14 May 1800); m.2nd
Paris (rel) 25 May 1803 (civ) Chamant 26 Oct 1803 Alexandrine de Bleschamp
(Calais 23 Feb 1778-Sinigaglia 12 Jul 1855)
1b) Christine Charlotte, Pss
française (Imperial Highness)
2b) a son, b.and d.Augsburg
3b) Victoire Gertrude, b.and
d.Ajaccio 1797
4b) Christine Charlotte
Alexandrine Egypta, Pss française (Imperial Highness)
5b) Jules Laurent Lucien, later
called Charles Lucien Jules Laurent, 2d Pr di Canino e Musignano, Pr française
(Imperial Highness) 22 Mar 1815, Pr Bonaparte (Highness) 21 Feb 1853, cr Pr
Bonaparte (male primogeniture) by Pope Pius IX 17 Jan 1854 (Paris 24 May
1803-Paris 29 Jul 1857); m.Brussels 29 Jun 1822 Pss Zénaïde Bonaparte
(1801-1854; above)
1c) Joseph Lucien Charles
Napoléon, 3d Pr di Canino e Musignano (Philadelphia 13 Feb 1824-Rome 2 Sep
1865)
2c) Alexandrine Gertrude
Zénaïde (Point Breeze USA 9 Jun 1826-Leghorn May 1828)
3c) Lucien Louis Joseph
Napoléon, 4th Pr di Canino e Musignano, Cardinal 1868 (Rome 15 Nov 1828-Rome 19
Nov 1895)
4c) Julie Charlotte Pauline
Zénaïde Laetitia Désirée Bartholomée (Rome 5 Jun 1830-Rome 28 Oct 1900); m.Rome
5c) Charlotte Honorine
Joséphine Pauline (Rome 4 Mar 1832-Ariccia 10 Sep 1901); m.Rome
6c) Léonie Stéphanie Elise
(Florence 18 Sep 1833-Aricia 14 Sep 1839)
7c) Marie Désirée Eugénie
Joséphine Philomène (Rome 18 Mar 1835-Spoleto 28 Aug 1890); m.Rome
8c) Augusta Amélie Maximilienne
Jacqueline (Rome 9 Nov 1836-Rome 29 Mar 1900); m.Rome
9c) Napoléon Charles Grégoire
Jacques Philippe 5th Pr di Canino e Musignano, granted the style
"Highness" on his marriage, recognized as "Principe Romano"
(Excellence) 1895 (Rome 5 Feb 1839-Rome 11 Feb 1899); m.Rome 25 Nov 1859 Maria
Cristina dei Principi Ruspoli (Rome 25 Jul 1842-Rome 12 Feb 1907)
1d) Zénaïde Eugénie (Rome 29
Sep 1860-Rome 14 Sep 1862)
2d) Marie Léonie Eugénie
Mathilde Jeanne Julie Zénaïde (Rome 10 Dec 1870-Rome 1947); m.Rome
3d) Eugénie Laetitia Barbe
Caroline Lucienne Marie Jeanne (Grotta Ferrata 6 Sep 1872-Paris 1949); m.Rome
10c) Bathilde Aloïse Léonie
(Rome 26 Nov 1840-Paris 9 Jun 1861); m.Paris
11c) Albertine Marie Thérèse (Florence
12 Mar 1842-Rome 3 Jun 1842)
12c) Charles Albert (Rome 22
Mar 1843-Rome 6 Dec 1847)
6b) Laetitia Christine, Pss
française (Imperial Highness) 22 Mar 1815, recognized as Pss Bonaparte
(Highness) 21 Feb 1853 (Milan 1 Dec 1804-Viterbo 15 Mar 1871); m.Canino 4 Mar
1821 Sir Thomas Wyse (Dumfree, Ireland 9 Dec 1791-Athens 15 Apr 1862)
7b) Joseph Lucien (Rome 14 Jun
1806-Rome 15 Aug 1807)
8b) Jeanne, Pss française
(Imperial Highness)
9b) Paul Marie, Pr français
10b) Louis Lucien Pr français
(Imperial Highness) 22 Mar 1815, recognized as Pr Bonaparte (Highness) 21 Feb
1853 (Grimley, Worcs 4 Jan 1813-Fano 3 Nov 1891); m.1st Florence 4
Oct 1832 (separated 1850) Maria Anna Cecchi (Lucca 27 Mar 1813-Ajaccio 17 Mar
1891); m.2nd London 15 Jun 1891 Clémence Richard (23 Nov 1830-London
14 Nov 1915)
1c) [by 2nd wife,
before marriage] Louis Clovis (
11b) Pierre Napoléon, Pr
français (Imperial Highness), recognized as Pr Bonaparte (Highness) 21 Feb 1853
(Rome 11 Oct 1815-Versailles 7 Apr 1881); m.(rel) in
Belgium 22 Mar 1853 (civ) La Cuisine, Belgium 2 Oct 1867 and again at Brussels
11 Nov 1871 Justine Eléonore Ruffin (Paris 2 Jul 1832-Paris 19 Oct 1905); Note:
CEDRE says that there was no 1853 marriage and that the children born to this
couple were born before marriage
1c) Roland, by right 6th Pr di
Canino e Musignano, but never assumed the title (Paris 19 May 1858-Paris 14 Apr
1924); m.Paris
1d) Marie (St.Cloud 2 Jul
1882-Gassin 21 Sep 1962); m.(civ)
2c) Jeanne (Abbey of Orval,
Belgium 25 Sep 1861-Paris 23 Jul 1910); m.Paris
12b) Antoine Lucien, Pr français
(Imperial Highness), recognized as Pr Bonaparte (Highness)
13b) Alexandrine Marie, Pss
française (Imperial Highness), recognized as Pss Bonaparte (Highness)
14b)
7a) Marie Anne Elisa Pss française (Imperial Highness) 18
May 1804, Dss of Lucca and Pss of Piombino 19 Mar 1805, Grand Dss of Tuscany 3
Mar 1809-1 Feb 1814, later assumed title Ctsa di Compignano (Ajaccio 3 Jan
1777-Villa Vincentini, nr Trieste 7 Aug 1820); m.Marseille 1 May 1797 Félix
Bacciochi, cr Pr français (Imperial Highness) 18 May 1804, Duke of Lucca and Pr
of Piombino 24 Jun 1805-18 Mar 1814, Pr di Massa-Carrara e La Garfagnana 30 Mar
1806 (Ajaccio 18 May 1762-Bologna 27 Apr 1841)
8a) Louis, Pr français (Imperial Highness) 18 May 1804,
King of Holland 5 Jun 1806-1 Jul 1810, when he abdicated in favor of his son,
assumed the title Cte de Saint-Leu (Ajaccio 2 Sep 1778-Leghorn 25 Jul 1846);
m.Paris 4 Jan 1802 Hortense de Beauharnais, cr Dss de Saint-Leu 30 May 1814
(Paris 10 Apr 1783-Château de Arenenberg, Switzerland 5 Oct 1837)
1b) Napoléon Louis Charles, Pr
français (Imperial Highness)
2b) Napoléon Louis, Pr français
(Imperial Highness), Pr Royal of Holland 5 May 1807, Grand Duke of Berg and
Cleves 3 Mar 1809-1 Dec 1813, nominal King of Holland 1-9 Jul 1810 (Paris 11
Oct 1804-Rome 17 Mar 1831); m.Brussels 23 Jul 1826 Charlotte Bonaparte
(1802-1839; above)
3b) Charles Louis Napoléon, Pr
français (Imperial Highness) and Pr of Holland, President of France 10 Dec
1848, became NAPOLÉON III, Emperor of the French 2 Dec 1852 (Paris 20 Apr 1808-Camden
Place, Chislehurst, Kent 9 Jan 1873); m.(civ) Château
des Tuileries 29 Jan 1853 (rel) Notre Dame Cathedral 30 Jan 1853 Eugénie Rojas
y Kirkpatrick Cdsa de Mora, etc (Granada 5 May 1826-Madrid 11 Jul 1920)
1c) NAPOLÉON [IV] Louis Eugène
Jean Joseph, Pr Imperial (Château des Tuileries 16 Mar 1856-d.on active service
at Ulundi, Zululand 1 Jun 1879)
9a) Marie Pauline Pss française (Imperial Highness) 18
May 1804, Dss of Guastalla 30 Mar 1806-24 May 1806 (Ajaccio 20 Oct
1780-Borghese Palace, nr Florence 9 Jun 1825); m.1st Mombello 14 Jun
1797 Victor Emanuel Leclerc (Pontoise 17 Mar 1772-San Domingo 2 Nov 1802); m.2nd
Mortefontaine (rel) 28 Aug 1803 (civ) 6 Nov 1803 Don Camillo Borghese Pr di
Sulmona e di Rossano, Duke of Guastalla 30 Mar 1806-24 May 1806 (Rome 19 Jul
1775-Florence 10 Apr 1832)
10a) Marie Annonciade Caroline Pss française (Imperial
Highness) 18 May 1804, later assumed title Ctsa Lipona (Ajaccio 25 Mar
1782-Florence 18 May 1839); m.(civ) Mortefontaine 20 Jan 1800 (rel) Paris 4 Jan
1802 Joachim Murat, Pr Français (Imperial Highness) 18 May 1804, Grand Duke of
Berg and Cleves 15 Mar 1806-1 Aug 1808, King of Naples and Sicily 1 Aug 1808-19
May 1815 (La Bastide-Fortunière 25 Mar 1767-Castello di Pizzo 13 Oct 1815)
11a) Jérôme, Pr français (Imperial Highness) 24 Sep 1806,
King of Westphalia 8 Jul 1807-26 Oct 1813, cr Pr von Montfort by the King of
Württemberg 31 Jul 1816, confirmed as Pr français 23 Dec 1852 (Ajaccio 15 Nov
1784-Paris 24 Jun 1860); m.1st Baltimore, Maryland 24 Dec 1803 (annulled
1805) Elizabeth Patterson (Baltimore Feb
1785-Baltimore 4 Apr 1879); m.2nd by proxy at Stuttgart 12 Aug 1807
and in person at Palais des Tuileries (rel) 22 Aug 1807 and (civ) 23 Aug 1807
Catharine Pss of Württemberg (St.Petersburg 21 Feb 1783-Villa Mon Repos, nr
Lausanne 28 Nov 1835); m.3d (rel) 1840 (civ) Paris 19 Jan 1853 Giustina
Pecori-Suárez (Florence 27 Nov 1811-Florence 30 Jan 1903)
1b) Jerome Napoleon (Camberwell,
Surrey 7 Jul 1805-Baltimore 17 Jun 1870); m.Baltimore
1c) Jerome Napoleon (Baltimore
5 Nov 1830-Pride's Crossing, Massachusetts 3 Sep 1893); m.7 Sep 1871 Caroline
Le Roy Appleton (Boston 4 Oct 1841-Washington 19 Nov 1911)
1d )
Louise Eugenie (Baltimore 7 Feb 1873-Biarritz 22 Jan 1923); m.Washington
2d) Jerome Napoleon Charles
(Paris 26 Feb 1878-New York 10 Nov 1945); m.New
2c) Charles Joseph (Baltimore 9
Jun 1851-Bella Vista, nr Baltimore 28 Jun 1921); m.Newport,
2b) Jérôme Napoléon Charles, Pr
français (Imperial Highness), Pr von Montfort (Trieste 24 Aug 1814-Florence 12
May 1847)
3b) Mathilde Laetitia
Wilhelmine, Pss française (Imperial Highness), titles confirmed
4b) NAPOLÉON Joseph Charles
Paul, Pr Napoléon, Pr français (Imperial Highness), titles confirmed 23 Dec
1852, assumed title Cte de Meudon, cr Cte di Moncalieri 1 Nov 1870 (Trieste 9
Sep 1822-Rome 18 Mar 1891); m.Turin 13 Jan 1859 Clothilde Pss of Savoy (Turin 2
Mar 1843-Moncalieri 25 Jun 1911)
1c) Napoléon VICTOR Jérôme
Frédéric, Pr Napoléon (Palais Royal 18 Jul 1862-Brussels 3 May 1926);
m.Moncalieri
1d) Marie Clotilde Eugénie
Alberte Laetitia Généviève (Brussels 20 Mar 1912-Château de la Pommerie Apr
1996); m.London
2d) LOUIS Jérôme Victor
Emmanuel Léopold Marie, Prince Napoléon (Brussels 23 Jan 1914-Prangins,
Switzerland 4 May 1997); m.Linières-Bouton 16 Aug 1949 Alix de Foresta
(b.Marseille 4 Apr 1926); Pr Louis is said to have directed before his death
that the headship of the family should devolve upon his grandson, Jean
Christophe, bypassing his own elder son, Charles, because of various
disagreements between the two; however, it is not clear whether this had any
legal effect
1e) CHARLES Marie Jérôme
Victor, Prince Napoléon, b.Boulogne-sur-Seine
1f) Caroline Marie Constance,
b.Paris
2f) JEAN-CHRISTOPHE Louis
Ferdinand Albéric, Prince Napoléon, b.St.Raphaël
3f) [by 2nd wife]
Sophie Cathérine, b.Paris
2e) Catherine Elisabeth
Albérique Marie, b.Boulogne-sur-Seine
3e) Laure Clémentine Geneviève,
b.Paris
4e) Jérôme Xavier Marie Joseph
Victor, b.Boulogne-sur-Seine
2c) Napoléon Louis Joseph
Jérôme (Château de Meudon 16 Jul 1864-Prangins, Switzerland 14 Oct 1932)
3c) Marie Laetitia Eugénie
Catherine Adélaïde (Paris 20 Dec 1866-Moncalieri 25 Oct 1926); m.Turin