Eugène de Beauharnais

Eugène de Beauharnais
Prince of Venice, Grand Duke of Frankfurt, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Prince of Eichstätt
Portrait of Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy, by Andrea Appiani (1810)
Viceroy of Italy
Term5 June 1805 – 11 April 1814
MonarchNapoleon I
Duke of Leuchtenberg
Prince of Eichstätt
Tenure14 November 1817 – 21 February 1824
SuccessorAuguste de Beauharnais
Born3 September 1781
Paris, France
Died21 February 1824(1824-02-21) (aged 42)
Munich, Bavaria
Burial
Spouse
(m. 1806)
Issue
HouseBeauharnais
FatherAlexandre de Beauharnais
Napoleon I (adoptive)
MotherJoséphine Tascher de la Pagerie
ReligionRoman Catholicism
Signature
Military career
Allegiance French First Republic
 First French Empire
 Kingdom of Italy
Battles / wars
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Eugène Rose de Beauharnais (French: [øʒɛn boaʁnɛ]; 3 September 1781 – 21 February 1824) was a French statesman and military officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Through the second marriage of his mother, Joséphine de Beauharnais, he was the stepson of Napoleon Bonaparte. Under the French Empire he also became Napoleon's adopted son (but not the heir to the imperial throne). He was Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy under his stepfather, from 1805 to 1814, and commanded the Army of Italy during the Napoleonic Wars. Historians consider him one of Napoleon's most able relatives.