Nicolas de Leuchtenberg is the current heir to the Dukedom of Leuchtenberg

Duke of Leuchtenberg

Duke of Leuchtenberg was a title created by Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria and awarded to his son Maximilian Philipp Hieronymus. Little is known about this title until its re-creation by Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria on 14 November 1817 and awarded to his son-in-law Eugène de Beauharnais...

. He is the son of Nicolas Nicolaïevitch de Leuchtenberg (1896-1937) and his wife Élisabeth Müller-Himmler, and is thus a direct descendent of Alexandre de Beauharnais, Joséphine de Beauharnais

Joséphine de Beauharnais

Joséphine de Beauharnais was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French. Her first husband Alexandre de Beauharnais had been guillotined during the Reign of Terror, and she had been imprisoned in the Carmes prison until her release five days after Alexandre's...

, and of Eugène de Beauharnais

Eugène de Beauharnais

Eugène Rose de Beauharnais, Prince Français, Prince of Venice, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy, Hereditary Grand Duke of Frankfurt, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg and 1st Prince of Eichstätt ad personam was the first child and only son of Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la...

, first Duke of Leuchtenberg.

On 24 August 1962, he married Anne Bügge (1936-) with whom he has two children:

• Nicolas Maximilien de Leuchtenberg (1963–2002), unmarried and without issue
• Constantin de Leuchtenberg (1965-), unmarried and without issue

Patrilineal descent

1. William I Beauharnais, seigneur de Miramion
2. William II Beauharnais, seigneur de Miramion
3. Jean de Beauharnais, seigneur de Miramion
4. William III Beauharnais, seigneur de Miramion
5. William IV Beauharnais, seigneur de Miramion
6. François I de Beauharnais, seigneur de Miramion, died 1587
7. François II de Beauharnais, seigneur de La Grillière
   Francis II of Beauharnais
   Francis II of Beauharnais was a French magistrate. He was seigneur of La Grillière, the first president to the Présidial of Orléans , lieutenant général to the bailliage of Orléans, and a Third Estate député at the Estates General of 1614....
   
   , died 1651
8. Jean de Beauharnais, seigneur de La Boische et de La Chaussée, 1606–1661
9. François IV de Beauharnais, écuyer, sieur de la Boische
   Francis IV of Beauharnais
   Francis IV of Beauharnais , squire, sieur of la Grillère and sieur de la Boische, was a French nobleman. His father was Jean de Beauharnais , maître d'Hôtel ordinaire du roi...
   
   , 1600–1681
10. Claude de Beauharnais, seigneur de Beaumont, 1680–1738
11. François V de Beauharnais, seigneur de Beaumont
    Francis V of Beauharnais
    François V de Beauharnais was a French nobleman, soldier, politician, colonial governor and admiral. He was baron de Beauville, marquis de la Ferté-Beauharnais, chef d'escadre des armées royales, and governor of the French colony of Martinique...
    
    , 1714–1800
12. Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais
    Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais
    Alexandre François Marie de Beauharnais, Vicomte de Beauharnais was a French political figure and general during the French Revolution...
    
    , 1760–1794
13. Eugène de Beauharnais, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg
    Eugène de Beauharnais
    Eugène Rose de Beauharnais, Prince Français, Prince of Venice, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy, Hereditary Grand Duke of Frankfurt, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg and 1st Prince of Eichstätt ad personam was the first child and only son of Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la...
    
    , 1781–1824
14. Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg
    Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg
    Maximilian Joseph Eugene Auguste Napoleon de Beauharnais , 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, 3rd Prince of Venice Prince des Français and Hereditary Prince of the Kingdom of Italy and claimant to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt was the husband of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna of...
    
    , 1817–1852
15. Nicolas I Maximilianovich de Beauharnais, 4th Duke of Leuchtenberg, 1843–1891
16. Nicolas II Nicolaevich de Beauharnais, 1868–1928
17. Nicolas III de Beauharnais, 1896–1937
18. Nicolas IV Alexander Fritz de Beauharnais, b. 1933

External links

• web.genealogie.free.fr