House
House of Bonaparte
Imperial and royal European dynasty
- Also called Bonaparte
A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Members · 7
The house, member by member
Oldest first, where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Joseph Fesch3 January 1763 CE – 13 May 1839 CE · French cardinal, diplomat, art collector and Prince of France (1763-1839) -
Joseph Bonaparte7 January 1768 CE – 28 July 1844 CE · brother of Napoleon Bonaparte; King of Naples (1806–08) and Spain (1808–13) -
Napoleon15 August 1769 CE – 5 May 1821 CE · French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821) -
Lucien Bonaparte21 May 1775 CE – 29 June 1840 CE · 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano (1775–1840) -
Louis Bonaparte2 September 1778 CE – 25 July 1846 CE · king of Holland, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, member of the House of Buonaparte (1778-1846) -
Jérôme Bonaparte15 November 1784 CE – 24 June 1860 CE · Napoleon I's brother (1784–1860) -
Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire19 August 1805 CE – 24 November 1895 CE · Child of Napoleon
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
Peer of France
- 5 holders
- 4 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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2 June 1815 CE – 22 June 1815 CE Jérôme Bonaparte Napoleon I's brother (1784–1860)
No dates recorded 4
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Dates unrecorded Joseph Fesch French cardinal, diplomat, art collector and Prince of France (1763-1839) -
Dates unrecorded Joseph Bonaparte brother of Napoleon Bonaparte; King of Naples (1806–08) and Spain (1808–13) -
Dates unrecorded Lucien Bonaparte 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano (1775–1840) -
Dates unrecorded Louis Bonaparte king of Holland, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, member of the House of Buonaparte (1778-1846)
Member of the Sénat conservateur
- 4 holders
- 4 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
No dates recorded 4
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Dates unrecorded Joseph Fesch French cardinal, diplomat, art collector and Prince of France (1763-1839) -
Dates unrecorded Joseph Bonaparte brother of Napoleon Bonaparte; King of Naples (1806–08) and Spain (1808–13) -
Dates unrecorded Lucien Bonaparte 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano (1775–1840) -
Dates unrecorded Louis Bonaparte king of Holland, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, member of the House of Buonaparte (1778-1846)
Ambassador
- 2 holders
- 2 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
No dates recorded 2
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Dates unrecorded Joseph Fesch French cardinal, diplomat, art collector and Prince of France (1763-1839) -
Dates unrecorded Louis Bonaparte king of Holland, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, member of the House of Buonaparte (1778-1846)
Member of the Council of Five Hundred
- 2 holders
- 2 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
No dates recorded 2
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Dates unrecorded Joseph Bonaparte brother of Napoleon Bonaparte; King of Naples (1806–08) and Spain (1808–13) -
Dates unrecorded Lucien Bonaparte 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano (1775–1840)
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Connections
How House of Bonaparte connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Transmission 1
What this means
Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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