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Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte (born Giuseppe di Buonaparte, Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe di ˌbwɔnaˈparte]; Corsican: Ghjuseppe Napulione Bonaparte; Spanish: José Napoleón Bonaparte; 7 January 1768 – 28 July 1844) was a French statesman, lawyer, diplomat and older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Joseph Bonaparte (born January 7, 1768, Corte, Corsica—died July 28, 1844, Florence, Tuscany, Italy) was a lawyer, diplomat, soldier, and Napoleon I’s eldest surviving brother, who was successively king of Naples (1806–08) and king of Spain (1808–13).
Napoleonic Spain was the part of Spain loyal to Joseph I during the Peninsular War (1808–1813), forming a Bonapartist client state officially known as the Kingdom of the Spains and the Indies after the country was partially occupied by forces of the First French Empire.
Joseph Bonaparte was a diplomat and a lawyer from France who reigned as the king of Naples and Sicily from 1806 to 1808. He was also the king of Spain from 1808 to 1813. He was the older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Emperor of the French.
Joseph Bonaparte (b. 7 January 1768; d. 19 July 1844), king of Spain. The oldest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, Joseph was born into a family of the minor nobility in Corte, Corsica.
King of Spain. Joseph Bonaparte reluctantly left Naples and arrived in Spain just in time for the Spanish revolt against French rule, and the beginning of the Peninsular War, in which the French were eventually expelled by Spanish guerrilla fighters and by an Anglo-Portuguese army.
In times of difficult political transition, Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte (January 7, 1768 - July 28, 1844), the elder brother of Napoleon I, was appointed as the King of Naples and Sicily (March 30, 1806-1808); at a later date, he was even called to sustain a role in a strategically conceived political game to have him enthroned as the King of ...
