Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte
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Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte, Princess of Canino and Musignano (8 July 1801 – 1854) was the elder daughter of Joseph Bonaparte
Joseph Bonaparte
Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte was the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of Naples and Sicily , and later King of Spain...

 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 the wife of Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano was a French naturalist and ornithologist.-Biography:...

, who was also her cousin. She joined her father in his Bordentown, New Jersey
Bordentown, New Jersey
Bordentown City is in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 3,924. Bordentown is located at the confluence of the Delaware River, Blacks Creek and Crosswicks Creek...

 exile for several years.

Titles

  • Princess Zénaïde Bonaparte, Princess of Spain
  • Princess Zénaïde Bonaparte, Princess of Spain, Princess of Canino and Musignano

Biography

On 29 June 1822, in Brussels, she married her cousin, her Uncle Lucien
Lucien Bonaparte
Lucien Bonaparte, Prince Français, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano , born Luciano Buonaparte, was the third surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and his wife Letizia Ramolino....

's son, Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano was a French naturalist and ornithologist.-Biography:...

. Her father Joseph had suggested the marriage to his wife when Zénaïde was only five; the idea was to carry on the Napoleonic succession (a return to power was always anticipated) by marrying his two daughters to sons of two of his brothers. The wedding was met with surprisingly little fanfare, perhaps because Zénaïde's mother was outraged at the excessive sum of the dowry (730,000 francs, which was unreasonable considering that Lucien's villa in Rome had cost only 150,000), which had strained her resources.

Charles was an ornithologist (who named the Zenaida doves
Zenaida Doves
The Zenaida doves make up a small genus of American doves. There are 7 species:* White-winged Dove, Zenaida asiatica* West Peruvian Dove, Zenaida meloda* Zenaida Dove, Zenaida aurita...

 after her). They had twelve children, listed below.
Name Date of birth Date of death
Joseph Lucien Charles Napoleon Bonaparte
Joseph Lucien Bonaparte
Joseph Lucien Charles Napoléon Bonaparte, 3rd Prince of Canino and Musignano was born in Philadelphia the son of Charles Lucien Bonaparte and his cousin Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte....

, 3rd Prince of Canino and Musignano
13 February 1824
Alexandrine Gertrude Zénaïde Bonaparte 9 June 1826 May 1828
Lucien Louis Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte, 4th Prince of Canino and Musignano 15 November 1828
Julie Charlotte Bonaparte 5 June 1830
Charlotte Honorine Joséphine Pauline Bonaparte 4 March 1832
Léonie Stéphanie Elise Bonaparte 18 September 1833
Marie Désirée Eugénie Joséphine Philomène Bonaparte 18 March 1835
Augusta Amélie Maximilienne Jacqueline Bonaparte 9 November 1836
Napoléon Charles Grégoire Jacques Philippe Bonaparte, 5th Prince of Canino and Musignano 5 February 1839
Bathilde Aloïse Léonie Bonaparte 26 November 1840
Albertine Marie Thérèse Bonaparte 12 March 1842
Charles Albert Bonaparte 22 March 1843

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