Napoléon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte, Duke of Reichstadt (20 March 1811 – 22 July 1832) was the son of Napoleon Bonaparte and his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria. He was known from birth as the "His Majesty the King of Rome" which Napoleon I declared was the courtesy title of the heir-apparent. His father abdicated in his favor, transferring to him the title of Emperor of the French, in 1815.
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Napoléon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte, Duke of Reichstadt (20 March 1811 – 22 July 1832) was the son of Napoleon Bonaparte and his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria. He was known from birth as the "His Majesty the King of Rome" which Napoleon I declared was the courtesy title of the heir-apparent. His father abdicated in his favor, transferring to him the title of Emperor of the French, in 1815.
Napoléon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte was born in Paris to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria in 1811. Styled "His Majesty the King of Rome," Napoleon I declared him his heir-apparent. Three years later, the First French Empire—to which he was heir—collapsed, and Napoleon would have liked to abdicate the throne in favour of his toddler son, who was taken by the empress to Château de Blois in April 1814, but Emperor Alexander I of Russia disagreed. In 1815, after his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon abdicated in favour of his son, whom he had not...
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