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1804 - 1831 · Male · Paris, France
Son of Louis Bonaparte and Hortense de Beauharnais
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Napoleon Louis Bonaparte
1804 - 1831
Napoleon Louis Bonaparte (1804-1831) was the second son of Louis Bonaparte and Hortense de Beauharnais and the elder brother of Napoleon III. Born in Paris, he was made Grand Duke of Berg by his uncle Napoleon I in 1809, a nominal sovereignty held while he was still a child, and for two days in 1810 he was titular king of Holland after his father's abdication, before the kingdom was annexed to France. Raised in Italy…
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Gen 2 · 1768 - 1844
Joseph Bonaparte (1768-1844) was the eldest surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino and the elder brother of Napoleon I. Trained as a lawyer, he served the Republic as a diplomat and negotiated the Treaty of Luneville with Austria and the Treaty of Amiens with Britain. Napoleon made him King of Naples in 1806 and then King of Spain in 1808, a throne he held uneasily through the Peninsular War until 1813. He married Julie Clary in 1794, and their surviving daughters were Zenaide and Charlotte. After the fall of the Empire he lived for many years in the United States, near Bordentown, New Jersey, under the title Comte de Survilliers, returning to Europe late in life and dying in Florence.
Gen 2 · 1775 - 1840
Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840) was the third surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, and the brother whose nerve secured Napoleon's seizure of power. As president of the Council of Five Hundred on 18 Brumaire 1799 he rallied the troops when the deputies turned on his brother, making the coup succeed. He served as interior minister and as ambassador to Spain, but broke with Napoleon over his second marriage, to Alexandrine de Bleschamp, which the Emperor refused to recognise, and over his refusal of a throne. Lucien withdrew to Italy, received the title Prince of Canino and Musignano from the Pope, and was briefly held by the British while trying to sail for America. A collector and amateur archaeologist, he excavated Etruscan tombs on his estates and died at Viterbo in 1840.
Gen 2 · 1777 - 1820
Elisa Bonaparte (1777-1820) was the eldest surviving daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, and the only one of Napoleon's sisters to govern a state in her own right. Educated at the royal school of Saint-Cyr, she married the Corsican officer Felice Baciocchi in 1797. Napoleon granted her the principality of Lucca and Piombino in 1805, where she reformed the administration, revived the Carrara marble quarries and founded an academy of fine arts, and in 1809 added the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, which she ruled from Florence until the Empire collapsed in 1814. Known for a businesslike style her brother respected more than he did most of the family, she spent her last years near Trieste and died there in 1820.
Gen 3 · 1781 - 1824
Eugene de Beauharnais (1781-1824) was the son of Josephine de Beauharnais by her first marriage and thus the stepson of Napoleon I, who adopted him as a French prince in 1806. Born in Paris, he served as his stepfather's aide-de-camp in Italy and Egypt and proved the most capable soldier of the imperial family, commanding the Army of Italy and fighting in the Russian campaign of 1812, where he took over the retreating army's rearguard. From 1805 he governed the Kingdom of Italy as Viceroy at Milan, and was widely respected there as an administrator. He married Princess Augusta of Bavaria, and after the Empire fell he settled in Munich as Duke of Leuchtenberg, where he died in 1824. He was the elder brother of Hortense de Beauharnais.
Gen 3 · 1803 - 1857
Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803-1857) was a naturalist and one of the founders of modern ornithology, and the eldest son of Lucien Bonaparte and Alexandrine de Bleschamp. A nephew of Napoleon I, he grew up in Italy and spent the years 1822 to 1828 in the United States, where he studied the birds of the eastern states and published a continuation of Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology; Bonaparte's gull carries his name. Back in Europe he worked on the classification of birds and mammals, produced the Conspectus Generum Avium, and helped organise the first Italian congresses of scientists. He succeeded his father as Prince of Canino and Musignano, took part in the Roman Republic of 1849 as a member of its assembly, and spent his last years in Paris, where he died in 1857.
Gen 5 · 1856 - 1879
Napoleon Eugene Louis Bonaparte (1856-1879), the Prince Imperial, was the only child of Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie and the heir to the Second Empire. His birth at the Tuileries was celebrated across France as securing the dynasty. He accompanied his father to the front in 1870 and was under fire at Saarbrucken at the age of fourteen, weeks before the Empire fell. The family took refuge in England, where he completed his education at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and became, on his father's death in 1873, the Bonapartist claimant recognised by the party in France. Seeking active service, he joined the British forces in the Anglo-Zulu War and was killed in a skirmish in Zululand in June 1879, aged twenty-three. His death passed the family's claim to the descendants of Jerome Bonaparte.
Gen 6 · b. 1950
Prince Charles Napoleon Bonaparte, born in 1950, is the son of Prince Louis Napoleon and a senior living descendant of Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon I's youngest brother. Trained as an economist, he has worked as a consultant and written books on his family and on Napoleonic history, and has been active in local politics in Corsica and in Provence, serving as a municipal councillor and deputy mayor of Ajaccio, the town where the family began. He has helped found associations that promote Napoleonic heritage sites across Europe. His father's will named his son Jean-Christophe rather than him as head of the house, a decision he has publicly disputed, and Bonapartist opinion has been divided between them since 1997. His children with Princess Beatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies are Caroline and Jean-Christophe.
Gen 7 · b. 1986
Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoleon, born in 1986, is the current head of the House of Bonaparte and the senior representative of Napoleon I's family today. The son of Prince Charles Napoleon and Princess Beatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, he was named heir in the will of his grandfather Prince Louis Napoleon, who died in 1997 and passed over his own son, a decision that has been contested within the family. He studied at HEC Paris and took an MBA at Harvard Business School, and has worked in private equity and investment banking in London and Paris. He takes part in Napoleonic commemorations in France and abroad, including the bicentenary observances of 2021. In 2019 he married Countess Olympia von und zu Arco-Zinneberg at Les Invalides in Paris, where Napoleon I is buried.
Gen 5 · 1914 - 1997
Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (1914-1997) was the son of Prince Victor Napoleon and Princess Clementine of Belgium, and head of the House of Bonaparte from 1926, when he succeeded his father at the age of twelve, until his death. Born in Brussels during the family's exile, he was still barred from France by the law on pretenders when the Second World War began, so he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion under an assumed name and later joined the Resistance in the Alps, for which he was decorated. He was able to live in France after the exile law lapsed, and worked in business while maintaining the family's historical role and its archives. He married Alix de Foresta in 1949; their children included Prince Charles Napoleon. His will named his grandson Jean-Christophe as his successor.
Gen 6 · b. 1950
Princess Beatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, born in 1950, is a daughter of Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, head of the royal house of the Two Sicilies, and the former wife of Prince Charles Napoleon Bonaparte. Their marriage in 1978 joined the House of Bonaparte to the Neapolitan branch of the Bourbons, the dynasty that Napoleon I's brother Joseph had displaced from the throne of Naples in 1806, a symmetry much remarked on at the time. Their children are Caroline Bonaparte, born in 1980, and Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoleon, born in 1986, the present head of the House of Bonaparte. The marriage was dissolved in 1989.
Gen 2 · 1780 - 1825
Pauline Bonaparte (1780-1825) was a sister of Napoleon I, celebrated in her own lifetime as one of the beauties of the imperial court. Born at Ajaccio, she married General Charles Leclerc in 1797 and went with him on the expedition to Saint-Domingue, returning a widow in 1803. Her second marriage, to the Roman nobleman Camillo Borghese, made her Princess Borghese, and Napoleon added the duchy of Guastalla in 1806. She sat for Antonio Canova's marble Venus Victrix, still in the Villa Borghese in Rome, and was the only one of the siblings to visit Napoleon on Elba and to offer her jewels to fund his return. She died near Florence in 1825.
The Kennedy family is an Irish American political dynasty from Boston, Massachusetts, whose members have included the 35th President of the United States, three United States senators, four congressmen, several ambassadors, and the founders of the Peace Corps and the Special Olympics. Across four documented generations the family moved from a County Wexford farm to the White House, and its name became shorthand in American public life for both political ambition and public service. ## Origins The American line begins with Patrick Kennedy, a farmer's son from Dunganstown, near New Ross in County Wexford, who emigrated to East Boston during the Great Famine. His son, Patrick Joseph "P. J." Kennedy (1858 to 1929), built a livelihood in the liquor and banking trades and served in both houses of the Massachusetts legislature, becoming one of the Democratic ward leaders who ran the city's Irish Catholic politics. On the other side stood John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald (1863 to 1950), congressman and twice Mayor of Boston. The two families joined in 1914 when P. J.'s son Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. married Honey Fitz's daughter Rose Fitzgerald. Their nine children, raised between Brookline, Bronxville and the compound at Hyannis Port on Cape Cod, form the generation the world knows. ## Notable members John F. Kennedy served as President from 1961 until his death in 1963, having previously represented Massachusetts in the House and Senate. His brother Robert F. Kennedy was Attorney General, then Senator from New York, and a candidate for the presidency in 1968. Their youngest brother Edward "Ted" Kennedy sat in the United States Senate for almost 47 years and was one of the most productive legislators of his era. The eldest son, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., was a naval aviator killed on a volunteer mission in 1944. Away from elected office, Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics, her husband Sargent Shriver created the Peace Corps and Head Start, and Jean Kennedy Smith founded the arts and disability organisation VSA before serving as United States Ambassador to Ireland. The following generations have produced congressmen, a lieutenant governor, ambassadors, documentary filmmakers, human rights advocates and journalists. ## Significance No other American family has combined electoral success, philanthropy and public visibility on this scale for so long. The Kennedys shaped the civil rights era, the space programme, immigration reform, health care legislation and the modern understanding of disability rights, and their private losses were mourned publicly in a way usually reserved for royalty. The Kennedy Library in Boston, the Kennedy Center in Washington and dozens of schools and institutions carry the name. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Family name | Kennedy | | Irish origin | Dunganstown, County Wexford, Ireland | | American home | Boston and Hyannis Port, Massachusetts | | Founding couple | Patrick Joseph Kennedy and Mary Augusta Hickey | | Best known member | John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States | | Generations covered | Four | | Offices held | Presidency, US Senate, US House, ambassadorships, state office | | Institutions founded | Peace Corps, Special Olympics, Best Buddies, Citizens Energy |
The House of Bourbon is a European royal dynasty, descended in the male line from the Capetian kings of France, that ruled France from 1589 to 1792 and again from 1814 to 1848, and that still reigns in Spain today under King Felipe VI. Over four centuries its members also held the thrones of Navarre, Naples and Sicily, Parma and Etruria, which makes it one of the most widely established royal houses in European history. ## Origins The family takes its name from the lordship of Bourbon in the Auvergne, centred on Bourbon-l'Archambault. Its royal line descends from Robert, Count of Clermont, a younger son of King Louis IX of France, whose marriage to Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress of Bourbon, carried the name into the Capetian house in 1272. For three centuries afterwards the Bourbons were powerful French princes of the blood rather than kings. That changed with Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome, whose marriage to Jeanne d'Albret, queen regnant of Navarre, produced Henry of Navarre. When the Valois line died out in 1589, Henry was the senior Capetian heir, and he took the French throne as Henry IV. ## Notable members Henry IV ended the French Wars of Religion and issued the Edict of Nantes in 1598. His son Louis XIII, guided by Cardinal Richelieu, built the centralised state that Louis XIV, the Sun King, carried to its height across a reign of seventy-two years, the longest of any European sovereign, and to the palace of Versailles. Louis XV and then Louis XVI inherited that system, and Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette, were swept away by the French Revolution in 1792. The dynasty returned with Louis XVIII in 1814 and Charles X in 1824, and in 1830 the crown passed to Louis Philippe I of the cadet House of Orleans, the last king to rule in France. ## The Spanish branch In 1700 the childless Charles II of Spain left his crown to Philip, Duke of Anjou, a grandson of Louis XIV. Philip became Philip V, the first Bourbon king of Spain, at the cost of the War of the Spanish Succession, which ended with his renunciation of any claim to the French throne. His descendants include the reforming Charles III, Ferdinand VII, Isabella II, Alfonso XII and Alfonso XIII, who left Spain in 1931. The monarchy was restored in 1975 under Juan Carlos I, grandson of Alfonso XIII, who presided over Spain's transition to democracy and abdicated in 2014 in favour of his son Felipe VI. Felipe's elder daughter Leonor, Princess of Asturias, is heir to the throne. ## Significance No other family links the absolute monarchy of Versailles to a working constitutional monarchy in twenty-first century Madrid. Bourbon marriages tied the house to the Habsburgs of Austria and Spain, the dukes of Savoy, the Medici of Florence and the British royal family, so a Bourbon family tree doubles as a map of European dynastic politics from the Reformation to the present day. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Family name | House of Bourbon (Maison de Bourbon, Casa de Borbon) | | Place of origin | Bourbon-l'Archambault, Auvergne, France | | Founder of the line | Robert, Count of Clermont (1256-1317), son of Louis IX | | First king of France | Henry IV, reigned 1589 to 1610 | | Last king to rule France | Louis Philippe I, reigned 1830 to 1848 | | First king of Spain | Philip V, reigned 1700 to 1746 | | Head of the house in Spain | King Felipe VI, since 2014 | | Heir in Spain | Leonor, Princess of Asturias | | Principal seats | Versailles, Fontainebleau, the Louvre, the Royal Palace of Madrid |
The Romanov family ruled the Russian Empire for more than three centuries, and this tree traces the dynasty's final direct line, from Emperor Nicholas I through to his great-great-grandson Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, and the imperial household that perished with him in 1918. ## Origins of the Line The House of Romanov had governed Russia since 1613, but this tree begins with Nicholas I, who reigned from 1825 to 1855 and whose descendants form an unbroken line to the end of the dynasty. His son Alexander II, the 'Tsar Liberator' who abolished serfdom in 1861, married Maria Alexandrovna and fathered both his successor, Alexander III, and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, who later governed Moscow and married Elizabeth Feodorovna, elder sister of the future Empress Alexandra. Alexander III, who married Maria Feodorovna (born Princess Dagmar of Denmark), presided over a conservative, stable reign before his early death in 1894 brought his son Nicholas II to the throne at the age of twenty-six. ## The Last Imperial Family Nicholas II married Alexandra Feodorovna, born Princess Alix of Hesse and a granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, in 1894. Their five children, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei, grew up largely secluded within the palaces of Tsarskoye Selo and Peterhof. Alexei's haemophilia, inherited through his mother, shaped the family's private life profoundly, drawing them into a controversial dependence on Grigori Rasputin. Nicholas's siblings, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, and Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, lived through the same collapse: Michael was briefly named Nicholas's successor in March 1917 before declining the crown, ending over three centuries of Romanov rule, while Xenia and Olga escaped Russia with their mother in 1919 and lived out their lives in exile. ## Notable Members and Their Legacy Beyond the throne, this branch of the family produced figures remembered for reasons other than politics: Elizabeth Feodorovna, widowed in 1905, founded a Moscow convent devoted to charitable work; the four Romanov sisters served as wartime nurses; and Anastasia became the subject of one of the twentieth century's most persistent identity mysteries, with impostor claims lasting decades until DNA testing in 2007-2009 confirmed her fate. Nicholas II himself remains a defining figure of early twentieth-century history, his reign bridging the industrializing, autocratic Russia of his father and the revolutionary Russia that followed. ## Significance The direct line traced here represents the final chapter of Romanov rule: a family whose personal history, from Nicholas I's conservative autocracy to Nicholas II's abdication, mirrors Russia's turbulent transition from empire to revolution. Its members remain among the most documented and searched royal figures in history. | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Dynasty | House of Romanov | | Ruling dates covered | 1825-1917 (Nicholas I to Nicholas II's abdication) | | Last reigning Tsar | Nicholas II (r. 1894-1917) | | Root figure | Nicholas II | | Notable in-laws | Alexandra Feodorovna (Hesse), Maria Feodorovna (Denmark), Elizabeth Feodorovna (Hesse) | | End of dynasty's rule | March 1917, with Michael Alexandrovich's refusal of the throne |
Napoleon Louis Bonaparte's recorded parents are Louis Bonaparte, Hortense de Beauharnais.
Napoleon Louis Bonaparte has 2 recorded siblings: Napoleon Charles Bonaparte, Napoleon III Bonaparte.
Napoleon Louis Bonaparte is recorded as Grand Duke of Berg in the Bonaparte family tree.
Napoleon Louis Bonaparte's recorded native place is Paris, France.
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