François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville

François d'Orléans
Prince of Joinville
Born(1818-08-14)14 August 1818
Château de Neuilly, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Died16 June 1900(1900-06-16) (aged 81)
Paris, France
Spouse
(m. 1843; died 1898)
Issue
Names
François-Ferdinand-Philippe-Louis-Marie d'Orléans
HouseOrléans
FatherLouis Philippe I
MotherMaria Amalia of Naples and Sicily
Signature

François d'Orléans, Prince de Joinville (14 August 1818 16 June 1900) was the third son of Louis Philippe, King of the French, and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. An admiral of the French Navy, François was famous for bringing the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena to France, as well as a talented artist, with 35 known watercolours. He married Princess Francisca of Brazil, daughter of Emperor Pedro I and sister of Emperor Pedro II. The dowry received by François upon the marriage became the Brazilian city of Joinville.

François and Francisca's grandson Jean went on to become the Orléanist claimant to the extinct French throne, a claim passed on to his son, grandson and now great-grandson Jean, Count of Paris, current Orléanist claimant to the French crown.