Joachim, 4th Prince Murat

Joachim Joseph Napoléon Murat, 4th Prince Murat (21 June 1834 – 23 October 1901) was a Major-General in the French Army and a member of the Bonaparte-Murat family.

Joachim Murat
Prince Murat
Tenure	10 April 1878 – 23 October 1901
Born	(1834-06-21)21 June 1834 Bordentown, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	23 October 1901(1901-10-23) (aged 67) Chambly, Oise, France
Spouse	Malcy Louise Caroline Berthier de Wagram ​ ( m. 1854; died 1884) Lady Lydia Hervey ​ ( m. 1894; died 1901)
Issue	3, including Joachim, 5th Prince Murat
Father	Lucien, 3rd Prince Murat
Mother	Caroline Georgina Fraser

Early life

Joachim Joseph was born at Bordentown, New Jersey on 21 June 1834. He was the eldest son, of four siblings, born to the former Caroline Georgina Fraser (1810–1879) and Prince Napoléon Lucien Charles Murat, 2nd Prince of Pontecorvo and 3rd Prince Murat.[1]

His father was the second son of Joachim Murat, King of Naples, who married Napoleon's sister, Caroline Bonaparte. His maternal grandparents were Thomas Fraser, a Scottish emigrant to the United States and major in the Loyalist militia during the American Revolution, and his wife Ann Loughton (née Smith) Fraser.[2]

Career

He moved to France with his family in 1848, after the fall of Louis-Philippe of France, where his father was appointed Minister, Senator and Imperial Prince.[1]

In 1852 Joachim entered the army, becoming an officer the following year and rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1863. In 1866 he became a Colonel of a regiment of the Cavalry Guard.[1]

In 1870 he was made Brigadier General and participated in the war against Prussia that led to the end of the Second Empire.[1]

After the fall of Napoleon III he retired to a private life but was able to maintain the title of General and Prince.[1]

Personal life

In 1854, he married Paris born Malcy Louise Caroline Berthier de Wagram (1832–1884), at the Tuileries Palace.[3] She was a daughter of Napoléon Berthier de Wagram, 2nd Duc de Wagram, and the former Zénaïde Françoise Clary. His wife's paternal grandfather was Marshal Berthier and she was a grand-niece of Désirée Clary and Julie Clary. Together, they were the parents of three surviving children, two daughters and one son, including:[1]

• Princess Eugénie Louise Caroline Zenaide Murat (1855–1934), who married Giuseppe Caracciolo, 9th Prince of Torella (1839–1910),[4] in Paris in June 1887.[3]
• Joachim, 5th Prince Murat (1856–1932), who married Marie Cécile Ney d'Elchingen, a daughter of the Prince de la Moskowa and a great-granddaughter of Marshal Michel Ney, in 1884.[5]
• Princess Anna Napoléona Karolina Alexandrine Murat (1863–1940), who married Count Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary.[6]

After the death of his first wife in 1884, he married Lady Lydia Hervey in Paris on 7 November 1894. Lady Lydia (1841–1901). Lydia, who was born in Kemptown, Sussex and was a daughter of Charles John Vigors Hervey and Martha (née Kemp) Hervey, was the widow of Arthur, Baron Hainguerlot (1833–1892). Joachim and his second wife did not have any children together.[7]

He spent the rest of his life at his family's castle, the Château de Chambly in Chambly, Oise, France where his second wife on 25 September 1901. Prince Murat there a died a month later on 23 October 1901.[1]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Joachim, 4th Prince Murat

16. Guillaume Murat 8. Pierre Murat-Jordy 17. Marguerite Herbeil 4. Joachim Murat, King of Naples 18. Pierre Loubières 9. Jeanne Loubières 19. Jeanne Viellescazes 2. Prince Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat 20. Giuseppe Maria Buonaparte 10. Carlo Buonaparte 21. Maria Saveria Paravicini 5. Caroline Bonaparte 22. Giovanni Geronimo Ramolino 11. Letizia Ramolino 23. Angela Maria Pietrasanta 1. Joachim, 4th Prince Murat 6. Thomas Fraser 3. Georgina Fraser 28. Benjamin Smith 14. Thomas Loughton Smith[8] 29. Ann Loughton 7. Ann Loughton Smith 15. Elizabeth Inglis

References

1. "PRINCE MURAT IS DEAD Was Born in New Jersey in 1834--His Mother Was An American" (pdf). The New York Times. 24 October 1901. Retrieved 5 May 2008.
2. Macartney, Clarence Edward; Dorrance, Gordon (1939). "The Bonapartes in America". penelope.uchicago.edu. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
3. Carey, Agnes (1920). Empress Eugenie in Exile. The Century co. p. 232. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
4. of), Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de La Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvigny Ruvigny and Raineval (9th marquis (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who", of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe. Harrison & Sons. p. 1450. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
5. "PRINCE MURAT, HEAD OF HIS HOUSE, DEAD; Great-Grandson of a Marshal of France and Napoleon's Sister, Caroline. NOTED AS A SPORTSMAN His Home In Paris Used by President Wilson--Kin Was Husband of Washington's Niece". The New York Times. 3 November 1932. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
6. Godsey, William D.; Godsey Jr, William D. (1999). Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War. Purdue University Press. p. 181. ISBN 978-1-55753-140-7. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
7. Annuaire de la noblesse de France (in French). Au Bureau de la publication. 1897. p. 202. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
8. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49949535

French nobility of the First French Empire
Preceded by Lucien Murat	Prince of Pontecorvo 1847–1878	Succeeded by Joachim Napoléon Murat
	Prince Murat 1878–1901