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Napoléon Alexandre Berthier, 2nd Prince of Wagram

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The prince de Wagram and his daughter Malcy by Winterhalter.

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.


Ancestry

Bibliography

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBouillet, 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