Bonaparte

:This article is about the family of Napoleon Bonaparte. There is also an article on the Argentinian paleontologist, Jos? Bonaparte. For the Olympic medallist, see Bonaparte (horse).

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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.

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Napoleon I was crowned Emperor of France 1804-1814, 1815; the Bonaparte family also provided kings of Spain, Naples, Holland and Westphalia, and a second French Emperor, Napoleon III.

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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.

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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 J?r?me Bonaparte (1784-1860) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany (1807-1813).

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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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Bonaparte	Louis Bonaparte	Bonaparte on St. Helena	Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Napoleon Bonaparte I on His Horse	Elisa Bonaparte (1777-1820) Wife of Felix Baciocchi	Napoleon Bonaparte 1888	Napoleon Bonaparte on St. Helena in 1816
Bonaparte's Mal-Maison at St. Helena 1821	Pauline Bonaparte Sister of Napoleon	Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul c.1803	Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) in the Grand Mosque at Cairo