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French naval officer This article is about the French naval officer. For his nephew, major general in the Russian Army, see Louis Napoléon Achille Charles Murat.

PrinceLouis Napoléon Murat
Personal details
BornLouis Napoléon Murat
(1851-12-22)22 December 1851
Paris, France
Died22 September 1912(1912-09-22) (aged 60)
Paris, France
Spouse Eudoxia Mikhailovna Somova ​ ​(m. 1873)​
Children3
Parents
Military service
AllegianceFrance; Sweden
Branch/serviceFrench Navy; Swedish Navy
RankLieutenant
Battles/warsFranco-Prussian War

Prince Louis Napoléon Murat (22 December 1851 – 22 September 1912) was a French military officer and member of the House of Murat.

Early life

Murat was born on 22 December 1851 in Passy, France, the youngest child of Lucien Charles Joseph Napoléon, 3rd Prince Murat, and Caroline Georgina Fraser, former governess at the residence of Joseph Bonaparte in Bordentown, New Jersey. He was a grandson of Caroline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon, and the godson of Napoléon III.

Career

Murat began his military career in the French Navy in 1869. Following the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he left to join the Swedish Navy. There, he was commissioned as a lieutenant and served as aide-de-camp to both Charles XV and Oscar II until his marriage in 1873.

Personal life

Murat married Eudoxia Mikhailovna Somova (1850–1924), widow of Prince Alexander Orbeliani, in Odessa in 1873. They had three sons:

  • Prince Eugène Louis Michel Joachim Napoléon (1875–1906), who married Violette Ney, daughter of Michel Aloys Ney, 3rd Duke of Elchingen, and died in an automobile accident in 1906.
  • Prince Oscar Charles Joachim (1876–1884), who died young.
  • Prince Michel Anne Charles Joachim Napoléon (1887–1941), who married Helena MacDonald Stallo, heiress to the Standard Oil fortune, in 1913.

Murat died in hospital in Paris on 22 September 1912 following a surgical operation.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Louis Napoléon Murat
16. Guillaume Murat
8. Pierre Murat-Jordy
17. Marguerite Herbeil
4. Joachim, King of Naples
18. Pierre Loubières
9. Jeanne Loubières
19. Jeanne Viellescazes
2. Lucien, 3rd Prince Murat
20. Giuseppe Maria Buonaparte
10. Carlo Buonaparte
21. Maria Saveria Paravicini
5. Caroline Bonaparte
22. Giovanni Geronimo Ramolino
11. Letizia Ramolino
23. Angela Maria Pietrasanta
1. Louis Napoléon Murat
3. Caroline Georgina Fraser

References

  1. ^ "Career of Prince Murat". The Washington Post. 8 October 1912. p. 6. Retrieved 19 February 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Auto kills Prince Murat". The New York Times. 27 July 1906.
  3. ^ Valynseele, Joseph (1957). Les maréchaux du Premier empire: leur famille et leur descendance (in French). pp. 47–48. Retrieved 18 February 2022 – via Gallica.
  4. Révérend, Albert (1896). Armorial du premier empire; titres, majorats et armoiries concédés par Napoléon Ier (in French). Au Bureau de "L'Annuaire de la noblesse". p. 303. Retrieved 20 February 2022 – via Google Books.
  5. "Princess Murat is dead in Paris". The New York Times. 2 April 1932.
  6. "Descendant of Bonaparte; Death of Prince Murat". London Evening Standard. 24 September 1912. p. 7. Retrieved 19 February 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. "1912, Décès , 16" (in French). Paris Archives. 1906. p. 9. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
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