House of Bonaparte

Bonaparte Dynasty

The House of Bonaparte was an imperial and royal European dynasty founded by Napoleon I of France in 1804, a Corsican military leader who rose to power and transformed the French Republic into the French Empire. The dynasty ruled from 1804 to 1815 and again from 1852 to 1870.

 Napoleon I of France 

Napoleon Bonaparte is the most significant person associated with the Bonaparte family because he created the First French Empire that conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. He was elected as first consul of France on November 10, 1799 with the help of his brother, Lucien Bonaparte, speaker of the Council of Five Hundred. He later crowned himself Emperor of the French in December 2, 1804 and King of Italy in May 26 1805. He then made his elder brother Joseph (1768–1844) king of Naples (1806–1808) and then of Spain (1808–1813), his third brother Louis, king of Holland (1806–1810), and his youngest brother Jerome Bonaparte, king of Westphalia(1807-1813).

Napoleon's son Napoleon François Charles Joseph (1811–1832) was created king of Rome (1811–1814) and was later styled Napoleon II by loyalists of the dynasty, though he only ruled for two weeks after his father's abdication. Charles Louis Napoléon (1808–1873), son of Louis Napoléon, was president of France in 1848 and emperor in 1852 until 1870, reigning as Napoléon III. A political movement for Corsican independence surfaced in the 1990s which included a Bonapartist restoration in its programme.

 Crowns held by the family 
 Emperors of the French 

 Napoleon I (1804–1814, 1815), also King of Italy (1805–1814)
 Napoleon II (1815), styled King of Rome from birth, but never reigned
 Napoleon III (1852–1870), nephew of Napoleon I and son of Louis I of Holland

 Kings of Holland 
 Louis I (1806–1810)
 Louis II (1810), also Grand Duke of Berg (1809–1813)

 Kings of Naples 
 Joseph I (1806–1808)
 Joachim I (1808–1815), also Grand Duke of Berg (1806–1808)

 King of Westphalia 
 Jérôme I (1807–1813)

 King of Spain 
 Joseph I (1808–1813)

 Grand Duchess of Tuscany 
 Elisa Bonaparte (1809–1814)

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