Predecessor Joachim Joseph Murat Successor Joachim Murat | Name Joachim, Prince | |
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Tenure 23 October 1901 – 2 November 1932 Born 28 February 1856 ( 1856-02-28 ) Died 2 November 1932(1932-11-02) (aged 76) Spouse Marie Cecile Ney d'Elchingen Father Joachim, 4th Prince Murat | ||
Joachim Napoléon Murat, 5th Prince Murat (Boissy-Saint-Léger, Val-de-Marne, France, 28 February 1856 – Château de Chambly, Chambly, Oise, France November 2, 1932), was a member of the Bonaparte-Murat family.
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Early life
Joachim Napoléon Murat was born on 28 February 1856 at Boissy-Saint-Léger, Val-de-Marne, France. His parents were Joachim Joseph Murat, 4th Prince Murat and of Malcy Louise Caroline Berthier de Wagram. His paternal grandparents were Prince Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat, 2nd Prince of Pontecorvo and 3rd Prince Murat, the second son of Joachim Murat, King of Naples, who married Napoleon's sister, Caroline Bonaparte, and Caroline Georgina Fraser (Charleston, South Carolina, 13 April 1810 – Paris, 10 February 1879), daughter of Thomas Fraser.
His maternal grandparents were Napoléon-Alexandre Berthier, 2nd Prince of Wagram (1810–1887) and Zénaïde Françoise Clary (1812–1884), who was the niece of Désirée Clary and Julie Clary. His maternal great-grandfather was Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753–1815), 1st prince de Wagram, 1st duc de Valangin, 1st sovereign Prince of Neuchâtel, who was a Marshal and Vice-Constable of France beginning in 1808, and Chief of Staff (Major général) under Napoleon.
Personal life
On 10 May 1884 he married Marie Cécile Ney d'Elchingen, with whom he had eight children:
- Joachim, 6th Prince Murat (1885–1938)
- Princess Marguerite (1886–1956), m. Baron Edgar Lejeune
- Prince Pierre (1887–1888)
- Prince Alexandre (1889–1926) m. Yvonne Gillois
- Prince Charles Michael Joachim Napoleon (1892–1973), who married Margaret Styuvesant Rutherford (1891–1976), the step-daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt and the granddaughter of Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816–1892) and Oliver Harriman (1829–1904), in 1929. She was previously married to U.S. Representative Ogden Livingston Mills (1884–1937) and Sir Paul Henry Dukes (1889–1967).
- Prince Paul (1893–1964) m. Solange de La Rochefoucald
- Prince Louis (b. 1896; k.i.a. 1916)
- Prince Jérôme Murat (1898–1992)
Descendants
Prince Louis died unmarried and Prince Charles had no issue; all the others did.