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Arms as Sovereign Prince of Ponte-Corvo 1806-1810. Arms as Crown Prince of Sweden 1810-1814 Arms as Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway 1814-1818. Arms as King of Sweden and Norway 1818-1844. Oscar I of Sweden (1799-1859), Duke of Södermanland 1810-1844, Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway 1818-1844. King of Sweden and Norway 1844-1859.
Bernadotte's arms as sovereign of Pontecorvo. Bernadotte, born in the town of Pau, in the province of Béarn, France, had risen to the rank of general during the French Revolution. In 1798, he married Désirée Clary, whose sister was married to Joseph, Napoleon's elder brother. In 1804, Napoleon promoted Bernadotte to a Marshal of France.
However, Bernadotte never used any stars in the arms of Pontecorvo (neither as Prince of Pontecorvo, nor as King of Sweden and Norway). The stars were introduced as an element in the royal coat of arms in the 19th century, [5] chosen as a symbol of Sweden's eternal existence, as in the poem by Esaias Tegnér:
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Carl Bernadotte was born as Prince of Sweden and Duke of Östergötland, but he gave up those titles when he married below his station in 1937. Carl's brother-in-law, King Leopold III of the Belgians, conferred upon him the title of Prince Bernadotte in the Belgian nobility on the day of Carl's first marriage with Countess Elsa von Rosen on 6 July 1937.
Carl Gustaf Oscar Fredrik Christian, Prince Bernadotte (10 January 1911 – 27 June 2003), originally Prince Carl, Duke of Östergötland, was the youngest child and only son of Prince Carl of Sweden and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark and eventually a prince of the Belgian nobility.
Bernadotte was born a Prince of Sweden and granted the title of Duke of Dalarna but renounced these titles to marry a commoner. He was the uncle of two reigning monarchs, Margrethe II of Denmark and Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, as well as one queen consort, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece .
File:Coat of Arms of a Prince Souverain.svg + File:Blason Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (1763-1844) Prince de Pontecorvo.svg Author Adelbrecht ( talk ) 10:12, 18 December 2010 (UTC)