Napoléon Alexandre Berthier
The prince de Wagram and his daughter Malcy by Winterhalter.
2nd Prince of Wagram
Tenure1 June 1815 - 10 February 1887
PredecessorLouis-Alexandre Berthier
SuccessorAlexandre Berthier
Born11 September 1810
Paris
Died10 February 1887
Paris
Noble familyBerthier
Spouse(s)Zénaïde Françoise Clary
IssueMalcy Louise Caroline Frédérique Berthier, Princess of Wagram
Alexandre Berthier, 3rd Prince of Wagram
Elisabeth Alexandrine Maria Berthier, Princess of Wagram
FatherLouis-Alexandre Berthier, 1st Prince of Wagram
MotherDuchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria

Napoléon Alexandre Louis Joseph Berthier, 2nd Prince of Wagram (11 September 1810, Paris  10 February 1887, Paris) was a French politician and nobleman. He was the son of Louis-Alexandre Berthier, 1st Prince of Wagram, and Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria (and by his mother, grandnephew of King Maximilian I of Bavaria).

Marriage and family

On 29 June 1831, he married Zénaïde Françoise Clary (25 November 1812, Paris – 27 April 1884, Paris). She was the daughter of Nicolas Joseph Clary and Malcy Anne Jeanne Rougier. She was also the niece of Désirée Clary, former fiancée to Napoleon Bonaparte and the wife of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte - King Charles XIV of Sweden.

They had three children:

  • Elisabeth Alexandrine Maria Berthier, Princess of Wagram (1849-1932), who married Count Étienne-Guy de Turenne d'Aynac.


The 2nd, the 3rd and the 4th Prince of Wagram are buried at the Château de Grosbois.[1]

Ancestry

Bibliography

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bouillet, Marie-Nicolas; Chassang, Alexis, eds. (1878). Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French). {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  • "Napoléon Alexandre Berthier, 2nd Prince of Wagram", in Adolphe Robert and Gaston Cougny, Dictionnaire des parlementaires français (1789-1891), Bourloton, Paris, 1889 Edition details Wikisource

References

  1. Max Reyne: Les 26 Maréchaux de Napoléon: Soldats de la Révolution, gloires de l'Empire, 1990



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