Christine Boyer

Christine Boyer
Miniature of portrait of Christine Boyer by Jean-Baptiste Isabey.
Born	Catherine Christine Eléonore Boyer 3 July 1771 Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Kingdom of France
Died	14 May 1800(1800-05-14) (aged 28) Plessis-Clamant, Paris, France
Buried	Santi Apostoli Giovanni e Andrea, Canino
Noble family	Bonaparte (by marriage)
Spouse(s)	Lucien Bonaparte ​ (m. 1794)​
Issue among others...	Charlotte Bonaparte Gabrielli Christine-Egypta, Lady Dudley Stuart

Catherine Christine Eléonore Boyer (3 July 1771 – 14 May 1800) was a member of the Bonaparte family as the first wife of Lucien Bonaparte, a younger brother of Napoleon.

Life

Born in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Boyer was the daughter of Pierre André Boyer, innkeeper at Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, and wife Rosalie Fabre. Other explain that she was the sister of an innkeeper with whom Lucien had lodged in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume. Christine was illiterate, and unable to sign her own name.

Bonaparte and Boyer married on 4 May 1794 at Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume. The couple were married hastily, and without the consent of the Bonaparte family. Lucien's brother Napoleon and their mother, Letizia, were displeased with the match.

Issue

The couple had four children, of whom two daughters had descendants.

• Filistine Charlotte then Christine Charlotte Bonaparte (Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, 28 February 1795 – Rome, 6 May 1865). She married firstly in Rome on 27 December 1815 Mario Gabrielli, Prince of Prossedi (Rome, 6 December 1773 - Rome, 18 September 1841). She married secondly secretly in 1842 Cavaliere Settimio Centamori. She had eight children by her first husband:
• a son Bonaparte (Augsburg, 13 March 1796 – Augsburg, 13 March 1796) ;
• Victoire Gertrude Bonaparte (Ajaccio, 1797 – Ajaccio, 1797) ;
• Christine Charlotte Alexandrine Egypta Bonaparte (Paris, 18 October 1798 – Rome, 19 May 1847); married firstly in Rome on 18 March 1818 Arvid, Count Posse (Sweden, 11 June 1782 - Washington, D.C., May 1826 or San Antonio de Béxar, Tejas, Coahuila y Tejas, 1831), son of Fredrik, Count Posse, and wife Carolina Stedt. This ended in divorce in 1824. She married secondly on 20 July 1824 Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart (London, 11 January 1803 - Stockholm, 17 November 1854). She had one child, a son, by her second husband.

Death

Boyer died at Plessis-Clamant, in Paris, in childbirth. She was buried in the Santi Apostoli Giovanni e Andrea cemetery in Canino, Lazio, Italy.

Bibliography

• Lucien Bonaparte à Saint-Maximin, Yacinthe Saint-German Leca