Prince of Wagram (French: Prince de Wagram; [pʁɛ̃s də vaɡ.ʁam]) was a title of French nobility that was granted to Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier in 1809. It was created as a victory title by Emperor Napoleon I after the Battle of Wagram. Berthier had previously been granted the title of Sovereign Prince of Neuchâtel in 1806.
After the death of Berthier in 1815, the subsequent inheritors of the title lived at the Château de Grosbois, a large estate in Boissy-Saint-Léger, Val-de-Marne, southeast of Paris. Since the 4th Prince of Wagram had not yet married when he was killed in action during World War I, the title became extinct in 1918.
List of titleholders
edit| Image | Name | Birth date | Death date | succession |
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Louis-Alexandre Berthier, 1st Prince of Wagram | 20 February 1753 | 1 June 1815 (aged 62) | newly created Prince of Wagram on 31 December 1809 |
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Napoléon Alexandre Louis Joseph Berthier, 2nd Prince of Wagram | 10 September 1810 | 10 February 1887 (aged 76) | son of the 1st Prince of Wagram |
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Louis Philippe Marie Alexandre Berthier, 3rd Prince of Wagram | 24 March 1836 | 15 July 1911 (aged 75) | son of the 2nd Prince of Wagram |
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Alexandre Louis Philippe Marie Berthier, 4th Prince of Wagram | 20 July 1883 | 30 May 1918 (aged 34) | son of the 3rd Prince of Wagram |
Tombs
editThe 1st Prince of Wagram is buried in the Wittelsbach crypt at Tegernsee Abbey, while the 2nd, the 3rd and the 4th Prince are buried at the Château de Grosbois.[1]
References
edit- ^ Max Reyne: Les 26 Maréchaux de Napoléon: Soldats de la Révolution, gloires de l'Empire, 1990
External links
edit- Château de Grosbois, information on the Berthier de Wagram family and their estate – not accessible 7 December 2007
- Marshal Berthier's son, archives of the New York Times, February 28, 1887