Carlo Buonaparte

Carlo Buonaparte
Carlo Buonaparte
Noble Patrician of Tuscany
	Portrait attributed to Anton Raphael Mengs, between c. 1766–1779
Full name	Carlo Maria Buonaparte
Born	27 March 1746; Ajaccio, Corsica, Republic of Genoa
Died	24 February 1785 (aged 38); Montpellier, Kingdom of France
Buried	Imperial Chapel, Ajaccio, France
Noble family	Buonaparte
Spouse(s)	Maria Letizia Ramolino (m. 1764)
Issue	Joseph, King of Spain; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French; Lucien, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano; Elisa, Grand Duchess of Tuscany; Louis I, King of Holland; Pauline, Princess and Duchess of Guastalla; Caroline, Queen of Naples; Jérôme, King of Westphalia;
Father	Giuseppe Maria Buonaparte
Mother	Maria Saveria Paravicini

Carlo Maria Buonaparte or Charles-Marie Bonaparte (27 March 1746^[1] – 24 February 1785) was a Corsican attorney best known as the father of Napoleon Bonaparte and grandfather of Napoleon III.

Buonaparte served briefly as a personal assistant to revolutionary leader Pasquale Paoli, fighting with the Corsican forces against the Genoese republic and later the French invasion.^[2] With the island becoming French, Buonaparte eventually rose to become in 1777 Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI. Twenty years after his death, his second surviving son, Napoleon, became Emperor of the French. Several of Buonaparte's other children received royal titles from their brother and married into royalty.

^ Seward 1986, p. 6.
^ Gallo, Max (4 November 2011). Napoleon 1: The Song of Departure. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-76579-5.

[FOOTNOTESeward19866-1] Seward 1986, p. 6.

[2] Gallo, Max (4 November 2011). Napoleon 1: The Song of Departure. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-76579-5.

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