Joachim Joseph Napoléon Murat, 4th Prince Murat (Bordentown, New Jersey

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, USA, June 21, 1834 - Château de Chambly, Chambly, Oise

Chambly, Oise

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, France

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 October 23, 1901), was a Major-General in the French Army

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 and a member of the Bonaparte

Bonaparte

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-Murat

Prince Murat

Prince Murat is a title created by Emperor Napoleon I for his brother-in-law Joachim Murat who would serve as King of Naples. On the 5 December 1812 Joachim's second son Lucien was also created sovereign Prince of Pontecorvo , in succession to Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte by an Imperial Decree...

 family.

Biography

Joachim Joseph was born at Bordertown

Bordentown, New Jersey

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, New Jersey

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, as the eldest son of Prince Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat

Prince Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat

Lucien Charles Joseph Napoléon, Prince Français, Prince of Naples, 2nd Prince de Pontecorvo, 3rd Prince Murat was a French politician, and the soevereign Prince of Pontecorvo between 1812 and May 1815....

, 2nd Prince of Pontecorvo and 3rd Prince Murat, the second son of Joachim Murat

Joachim Murat

Joachim-Napoléon Murat , Marshal of France and Grand Admiral or Admiral of France, 1st Prince Murat, was Grand Duke of Berg from 1806 to 1808 and then King of Naples from 1808 to 1815...

, King of Naples, who married Napoleon's sister, Caroline Bonaparte

Caroline Bonaparte

Maria Annunziata Carolina Murat , better known as Caroline Bonaparte, was the seventh surviving child and third surviving daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino and a younger sister of Napoleon I of France...

. His mother was Caroline Georgina Fraser (Charleston

Charleston, South Carolina

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, South Carolina

South Carolina

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, April 13, 1810 - Paris

Paris

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, February 10, 1879), daughter of Thomas Fraser. He had four other siblings.

He moved to France

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 with is family in 1848, after the fall of Louis-Philippe of France

Louis-Philippe of France

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, where his father was appointed Minister

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, Senator and Imperial Prince.

In 1854 he married at the Tuileries Palace

Tuileries Palace

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 Malcy Louise Caroline Berthier de Wagram (Paris

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,June 22, 1832 - Paris

Paris

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, May 17, 1884), daughter of Napoléon Berthier de Wagram, 2nd Duc de Wagram (September 10, 1810 - February 10, 1887, son of Marshal Berthier) and wife Zénaïde Françoise Clary (Paris

Paris

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, November 25, 1812 - Paris

Paris

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, April 27, 1884, niece of Désirée Clary

Désirée Clary

Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary , one-time fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte, was a Frenchwoman who became Queen of Sweden and Norway as the consort of King Charles XIV John, a former French General. She officially changed her name there to Desideria, a Latin version of her original name...

 and Julie Clary

Julie Clary

Marie Julie Bonaparte was Queen consort of Spain and the Indies, Naples and Sicily as the spouse of King Joseph Bonaparte, who was King of Naples and Sicily from January 1806 to June 1808, and later King of Spain and the Spanish West Indies from 25 June 1808 to June 1813.- Background:Julie Clary...

), and had issue (two daughters and one son, the 5th Prince Murat

Joachim, 5th Prince Murat

Joachim Napoléon Murat, 5th Prince Murat , was a member of the Bonaparte-Murat family.- Biography:...

), and secondly in Paris

Paris

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, November 7, 1894 Lady Lydia Hervey (Kemptown

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, Sussex

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, August 15, 1841 - Château Chaâlis, September 25, 1901), without issue.

In 1852 Joachim entered the army, becoming an officer

Officer (armed forces)

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 the following year and rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel

Lieutenant colonel

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 in 1863. In 1866 he became a Colonel

Colonel

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 of a regiment of the Cavalry Guard.

In 1870 he was made Brigadier

Brigadier

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 General

General

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 and participated in the war against Prussia

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 that led to the end of the Second Empire

Second French Empire

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.

After the fall of Napoleon III he retired to a private life but was able to maintain the title of General

General

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 and Prince

Prince

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. He spent the rest of his life at his family's castle in Chambly where he died in 1901.