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The succession to the throne of the French Empire was vested by Bonapartist emperors in the descendants and selected male relatives of Napoleon I (r. 1804–1814/15 ). Following the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, Bonapartist pretenders descended from Napoleon I's brothers have maintained theoretical claims to the imperial office.
The only other male members of the family are Charles's recently married (2013) brother, Prince Jérôme Napoléon (born 1957) and Jean-Christophe's son, Prince Louis Napoléon (born 2022). There are no other legitimate descendants in the male line from Napoleon I or from his brothers.
Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon, Prince of Montfort (born Jean-Christophe Louis Ferdinand Albéric Napoléon Bonaparte; 11 July 1986, France) is a French businessman and the disputed head of the Imperial House of France, and as such the heir of Napoleon Bonaparte, the first Emperor of the French. He would be known as Napoleon VIII.
Olympia Bonaparte, Princess Napoléon (Olympia Elene Marie; née Countess Olympia von und zu Arco-Zinneberg, born 4 January 1988), is the consort of Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon, the disputed head of the House of Bonaparte and, in the view of Bonapartists, the pretender to the abolished French imperial throne.
In an interview published by Le Figaro on 2 December 1997, Jean-Marc Varaut, the attorney who witnessed the late Prince Louis Napoléon's will and subsequently represented the dynastic interests of Prince Jean Christophe against his father, stated that Charles had alienated himself from the Bonaparte legacy by publicly espousing "republican and ...
The descendants of Louis XIV are numerous. ... Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon 1986-11 July 1986 Saint Var, France, France
Descendant of the Neapolitan Medici Princes of Ottajano, declared heirs of Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Electress Palatine (1667–1743), last direct dynast of the main, Tuscan branch of the Medici family. 1737 [244] Two Sicilies: Pedro: 5 October 2015: Bourbon-Two Sicilies [eu 24] Great-great-great-grandsons of King Ferdinand II (1830–1859 ...
The current head of the Imperial family, Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon is a direct descendant of King Leopold II. Leopold also fathered two sons by Caroline Lacroix . They were adopted in 1910 by Lacroix's second husband, Antoine Durrieux. [ 76 ]