Bonaparte, J�r�me 1784-1860
King of Westphalia

Born in Ajaccio, Corsica, he was the son of Charles and Marie Bonaparte, and brother of Napoleon I. He served in the navy (1800-02) and lived in New York (1803-05). His marriage to Elizabeth Patterson (1785-1879) at Baltimore (1803) was declared null and void by Napoleon. He was given a high military command in the Prussian campaign (1806), led an army corps at Wagram (1809), incurred his brother's displeasure during the invasion of Russia (1812), but fought with tenacity at Waterloo (1815). He became sovereign of Westphalia (1807-13) and married Princess Catherine of W�rttemberg in 1807. After exile in Rome, Florence and Switzerland, he returned to Paris (1847). His nephew Napoleon III appointed him Governor of the Invalides, created him a Marshal of France, and consulted him over the strategy of the Crimean War, where his son Prince Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul (1822-91) fought at the Alma and Inkerman. His great-grandson Louis, Prince Napoleon, (b.1914), became head of the House of Bonaparte in 1926.