Napoleon III

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Napoleon III
(B) 1808, Paris, France
(D) 1873, Chislehurst, United Kingdom died of a Stomach ulcer age 65

Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte the nephew of Napoleon I, was the first President of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last French monarch from 1852 to 1870. First elected president of the French Second Republic in 1848, he seized power in 1851, when he could not constitutionally be re-elected and became the Emperor of the French.
Spouse: Eugénie de Montijo (B) 1826, Granada, Spain (D) 1920, Madrid, Spain (m) 1853–1873
Full name: María Eugenia Ignacia Augustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick
16th Countess of Teba, 15th Marchioness of Ardales, known as Eugénie de Montijo, was the last Empress of the French as the wife of Emperor Napoleon III.
Place of burial: Saint Michaels Abbey, Farnborough, United Kingdom
Children: Napoléon, Prince Imperial (Napoleon IV)

Parents of Napoleon III was Louis Napoléon Bonaparte was a younger brother of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. He was a monarch in his own right from 1806 to 1810, ruling over the Kingdom of Holland. ( B) 1778, Ajaccio, France (Corsica) (D) 1846, Livorno, Italy age 68. His birth name was Luigi Buonaparte
Louis was the fifth surviving child and fourth surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, out of eight children who lived past infancy. He and his siblings were all born on Corsica, which had been conquered by France less than a decade before his birth.

Louis followed his older brothers into the French Army, where he benefited from Napoleon’s patronage. In 1802, he married his step-niece Hortense de Beauharnais, the daughter of Empress Joséphine Napoleon’s first wife. His son Louis-Napoléon established the Second French Empire, taking the throne as Napoleon III
In 1806, Napoleon established the Kingdom of Holland in place of the Batavian Republic, appointing Louis as the new king. Napoleon had intended for Holland to be little more than a puppet state, but Louis was determined to be as independent as possible, and in fact, became quite popular amongst his new people. Growing tired of his brother’s wilfulness, or disregard for other people’s feelings. Napoleon annexed Holland into the French Empire in 1810. Louis fled into exile in Austria, where he spent the rest of his life.

His mother Hortense de Beauharnais was the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoléon I, being the daughter of his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. She later became the wife of the former’s brother,Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, (M) . 1802–1837) and the mother of Napoléon III, Emperor of the French.

She had also an illegitimate son, The 1st Duc de Morny, by her lover, the Comte de Flahaut. She traveled in Germany and Italy before purchasing the Château of Arenenberg in the Swiss canton of Thurgau in 1817. She lived there until her death on 5 October 1837, at the age of fifty-four. She is buried next to her mother Joséphine in the Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church in Rueil-Malmaison.
A portrait of Hortense hangs at Ash Lawn-Highland, the Virginia plantation home of James Monroe, fifth President of the United States. It was one of three portraits given by Hortense to Monroe’s daughter Eliza, who went to school with Hortense in France. (The other two portraits are of Hortense’s brother Eugène de Beauharnais and of Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan, the headmistress of the school attended by Hortense and Eliza.) Eliza’s daughter, Hortensia Monroe Hay, was named in honor of Hortense.

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Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie son, Napoleon Eugene, prince Imperial.