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Jérôme Bonaparte

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Jerome Bonaparte, born November 15, 1784 in Ajaccio, Corsica, was the youngest brother of Emperor Napoleon I of France. He served with the French navy before going to the United States where he married Elizabeth Patterson (1785-1879), daughter of a Baltimore, Maryland merchant. Napoleon annulled their marriage but a son, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Camberwell, Surrey, England.

Made king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from the states of western Germany (1807-1813), Jerome married the second time to Catharina of Württemberg , with whom he had a another son, Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, (1822-91) also known as "Prince Napoleon". Their second child, a daughter, the Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, 1820-1904, was prominent during and after the Second Empire as hostess to men of arts and letters.

After Emperor Napoleon's exile, Jerome moved to Italy where he married Giustina Pecori-Suárez, the widow of an Italian nobleman.

Jerome Bonaparte died on June 24, 1860 at Villegenis, France. He is buried in Les Invalides, Paris.

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