Married and maiden names
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| - | + | A '''married name''' is the [[family name]] adopted by a person upon marriage. When a person assumes the family name of his or her spouse, the new name replaces the '''''maiden name'''''. | |
| - | '''''Nobile'' Maria Letizia Buonaparte''' ''[[Married and maiden names|née]]'' '''Ramolino''' ('''Marie-Lætitia Ramolino, Madame Mère de l'Empereur''') (24 August 1750 – 2 February 1836) was the mother of [[Napoleon|Napoleon I of France]]. | + | |
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| - | She was born in [[Ajaccio]], [[Corsica]], to ''Nobile'' Giovanni Geronimo Ramolino (13 April 1723–1755), [[Captain (land and air)|Captain]] of Corse [[Regiment]]s of [[Chivalry]] and [[Infantry]] in the Army of the Republic of Genoa, and wife ''Nobile'' Angela Maria Pietrasanta (circa 1725–1790). The distant cousins of the Ramolinos were a low rank of [[nobility]] in the [[Republic of Genoa]]. Letizia was not formally educated. | + | |
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| - | On 2/7 June 1764, when she was 14, she married at Ajaccio to [[Lawyer|attorney]] [[Carlo Buonaparte]]. She bore 13 children, eight of whom survived infancy, and most of whom were created monarchs by Napoleon: | + | |
| - | * Napoleone Buonaparte (1764/1765 – 17 August 1765) | + | |
| - | * Maria Anna Buonaparte (3 January 1767 – 1 January 1768) | + | |
| - | * [[Joseph Bonaparte]] (7 January 1768 – 28 July 1844) King of Naples and Sicily, [[List of Spanish monarchs|King of Spain]] and the Indies, and Comte de Survilliers. | + | |
| - | * [[Napoleon]] Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), [[Emperor of the French]] and namesake of his deceased older brother | + | |
| - | * Maria Anna Buonaparte (1770), namesake of her deceased older sister | + | |
| - | * Maria Anna Buonaparte (14 July – 23 November 1771), namesake of her deceased older sisters | + | |
| - | * A [[Stillbirth|stillborn]] son | + | |
| - | * [[Lucien Bonaparte]] (21 March 1775 – 29 June 1840), [[Prince of Canino and Musignano]] | + | |
| - | * [[Elisa Bonaparte]] (3 January 1777 – 7 August 1820), [[List of rulers of Tuscany|Grand Duchess of Tuscany]] | + | |
| - | * [[Louis Bonaparte]] (2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846), [[List of Dutch monarchs|King of Holland]] | + | |
| - | * [[Pauline Bonaparte]] (20 October 1780 – 9 June 1825), Sovereign Princess and Duchess of [[Guastalla]] | + | |
| - | * [[Caroline Bonaparte]] (25 March 1782 – 18 May 1839), Grand Duchess of [[United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg|Berg and Cleves]], wife of [[Joachim Murat]], later [[List of consorts of Naples|queen consort of Naples]] | + | |
| - | * [[Jérôme Bonaparte]] (15 November 1784 - 24 June 1860), King of [[Westphalia]]. | + | |
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| - | She was a harsh mother, and had a very down-to-earth view of most things. When most European mothers, even those in the [[upper class]], [[bathing|bathed]] perhaps once a month, she had her children bathed every other day. | + | |
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| - | When [[France under the Ancien Régime]] took control of [[Corsica]], in 1769, [[French language|French]] became the national language, but Letizia never learned the tongue. When she was 35, her husband died of [[cancer]]. She was decreed "Madam, the Mother of His Majesty the Emperor" (''Madame Mère de l'Empereur''), Imperial Highness, on 18 May 1804 or 23 March 1805. She died of old age in [[Rome]], in 1836, aged 85, three weeks before the 50th anniversary of her husband's death. By then she was nearly [[blindness|blind]] and had outlived her most famous son Napoleon by 15 years. | + | |
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| - | * [[François Carlo Antommarchi]] | + | *[[Double-barrelled name]] |
| + | *[[Family name]] | ||
| + | *[[Given name]] | ||
| + | *[[Lucy Stone League]] | ||
| + | *[[Matriname]] | ||
| + | *[[Name change]] | ||
| + | *[[Patrilineal surname]] | ||
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A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage. When a person assumes the family name of his or her spouse, the new name replaces the maiden name.
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See also
- Double-barrelled name
- Family name
- Given name
- Lucy Stone League
- Matriname
- Name change
- Patrilineal surname
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