Coat of Arms of Louis-Alexandre Berthier

Prince of Wagram (; ) was a title of

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that was granted to Marshal

Louis-Alexandre Berthier Louis-Alexandre Berthier (20 November 1753 – 1 June 1815), Prince of Neuchâtel and Valangin, Prince of Wagram, was a French Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was twice Minister ...

in 1809. It was created as a

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by Emperor

Napoleon I Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

after the

Battle of Wagram The Battle of Wagram (; 5–6 July 1809) was a military engagement of the Napoleonic Wars that ended in a costly but decisive victory for Emperor Napoleon's French and allied army against the Austrian army under the command of Archduke Charles ...

. Berthier had previously been granted the title of Sovereign Prince of

Neuchâtel , neighboring_municipalities= Auvernier, Boudry, Chabrey (VD), Colombier, Cressier, Cudrefin (VD), Delley-Portalban (FR), Enges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise, Savagnier , twintowns = Aarau (Switzerland), Besançon (France), ...

in 1806. After the death of Berthier in 1815, the subsequent inheritors of the title lived at the

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, a large estate in

Boissy-Saint-Léger Boissy-Saint-Léger () is a Communes of France, commune in the Val-de-Marne Departments of France, department in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris. Population Transport Boissy-Sai ...

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, southeast of

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. Since the 4th Prince of Wagram had not yet married when he was killed in action during

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, the title became extinct in 1918.

List of titleholders

# Louis-Alexandre Berthier, 1st Prince of Wagram (February 20, 1753 – June 1, 1815) # Napoléon Alexandre Louis Joseph Berthier, 2nd Prince of Wagram (September 10, 1810 – February 10, 1887) #

Louis Philippe Marie Alexandre Berthier, 3rd Prince of Wagram Louis Philippe Marie "Alexandre" Berthier, 3rd Prince of Wagram (24 March 1836, Paris – 15 July 1911, Château de Grosbois) was a French nobleman and prince of Wagram. He was the son of Napoléon Alexandre Berthier and Zénaïde Françoise Cla ...

(March 24, 1836 – July 15, 1911) #

Alexandre Louis Philippe Marie Berthier, 4th Prince of Wagram Alexandre Louis Philippe Marie Berthier, 4th Prince de Wagram (20 July 1883 – 30 May 1918) was a French nobleman and an art collector. Early life Born as the son of Alexandre Berthier, 3rd Prince of Wagram (1836–1911) and Baroness Bertha C ...

(July 20, 1883 – May 30, 1918)

External links

Château de Grosbois
information on the Berthier de Wagram family and their estate – not accessible 7 December 2007

archives of the

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, February 28, 1887 {{DEFAULTSORT:Wagram Lists of French nobility Lists of princes Noble titles created in 1809