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Michel Aloys Ney
Duke of Elchingen
Born(1835-05-03)3 May 1835
Paris, France
Died23 February 1881(1881-02-23) (aged 45)
Fontenay-aux-Roses, Seine
SpousePaule Marguerite Laure Juliette Furtado-Heine
IssueCécile, Princess Murat
Marguerite Louise Ney
Napoléon, 4th Prince de la Moskowa
Rose, Duchess of Camastra
Charles, 5th Prince de la Moskowa
Violette, Princess Murat
Clotilde Ney
FatherMichel Louis Félix Ney
MotherMarie Joséphine Souham

Michel Aloys Ney, 3rd Duke of Elchingen (3 May 1835 – 23 February 1881), was a French general.

Early life[edit]

He was the only son of Michel Louis Félix Ney, 2nd Duke of Elchingen (1804–1854), and Marie Joséphine Souham. He had two sisters, Marie-Louise Hélène Ney d'Elchingen (who married Prince Nicolae Bibescu) and Hélène Louise Ney d'Elchingen.[1]

Her maternal grandparents were Général Joseph Souham and Rosalie Desperiez. His paternal grandparents were Aglaé Auguié and Michel Ney, 1st Prince de la Moskowa, 1st Duke of Elchingen, who was made a peer of France in 1814. On his execution in 1815, the peerage was revoked, but it was restored in 1831. Clauses in the titles' patents of creation caused the title of Prince de la Moskowa to pass to Ney's eldest son (Michel's uncle), Napoléon Joseph Ney, and the title of Duke of Elchingen to pass to his second son (Michel's father), Michel.[2]

Career[edit]

Battle of Hierba-Buena in 1865, by Jean-Adolphe Beaucé

In August 1852, he volunteered in the regiment of his uncle, Napoleon Joseph Ney, a few months after the death of his cousin of the same age. He served in the East, during the Crimean War in 1854, then in Algeria from 1855 to 1860, with a stint in Italy in 1859, again in Algeria then in Syria from 1859 to 1862. In 1861, he was officer in the chasseurs of the Imperial Guard. He participated in the Second French intervention in Mexico from 1862 to 1866, and finally during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.

Dukedom of Elchingen[edit]

Upon the death of his father in 1854, the dukedom passed to Michel. Upon the death of his uncle Napoléon Joseph Ney in 1857, who died without surviving legitimate male issue, the princely title passed to another uncle, Edgar Ney, who became the 3rd Prince de la Moskowa.[3] When he died without issue in 1882, the title reverted to Michel's branch of the family. Since Michel had died in 1881, his younger son Charles became the 4th Duke of Elchingen and his eldest son, Léon Napoléon Louis Michel Ney, became 4th Prince de la Moskowa. Upon his death in 1928, the titles were again united and held by his second son, Charles.[4]

Personal life[edit]

Portrait of his wife (after she remarried to Prince d'Essling), by Édouard Rosset-Granger, 1902
Portrait of his daughter, Cécile, by Giovanni Boldini, 1910

On 9 August 1866, he married Paule Marguerite Laure Juliette Furtado-Heine in Rocquencourt, Yvelines. She was the adopted daughter of wealthy Frankfurt banker Charles Heine and heiress Cécile Furtado-Heine who owned the Château de Rocquencourt. Together, they were the parents of seven children, two sons and five daughters, including:[5]

The Duke was found dead at his rented house in Fontenay-aux-Roses on 23 February 1881. After his death, his widow married Victor Masséna, 5th Prince d'Essling, 5th Duc de Rivoli, son of François Victor Massena, 3rd Duke of Rivoli and Anne d'Essling, Grand-Maitresse (Senior Lady-in-Waiting) to Empress Eugénie.[1] She died on 19 September 1903 in Bellagio, Italy.[10][11]

Descendants[edit]

Through his eldest daughter, he was a grandfather of Joachim, 6th Prince Murat (1885–1938), who married Louise Amélie Plantié; Princess Marguerite Murat (1886–1956), who married Baron Edgar Lejeune; Prince Alexandre Murat (1889–1926) who married Yvonne Gillois;[12] Prince Charles Michael Joachim Napoleon Murat (1892–1973), who married Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd, step-daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt;[13] and the granddaughter of Lewis Morris Rutherfurd[14][15] Prince Paul Murat (1893–1964), who married Solange de La Rochefoucald; Prince Louis Murat (1896–1916), who was killed in action during World War I; and Prince Jérôme Murat (1898–1992).[16]

Through his youngest son Charles, he was a grandfather of Michel Georges Napoléon Ney, 6th Prince de la Moskowa, 5th Duc d'Elchingen (1905–1969), upon whose death both titles became extinct.[3]

Through his daughter Violette, he was a grandfather of Pierre Murat (1900–1948), who married Princess Isabelle of Orléans, one of the four children of Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, who would become the Orleanist pretender to the French throne in 1926, and his wife Princess Isabelle of Orléans.[17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique (in French). Justus Perthes. 1893. pp. 354–355. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  2. ^ Atteridge, A. H. (19 September 2005). Marshal Ney: The Bravest of the Brave. Casemate Publishers. ISBN 978-1-78340-213-7. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels (in German). C.A. Starke. 2001. p. 481. ISBN 978-3-7980-0824-3. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  4. ^ Vella, Christina (23 January 2004). Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba. LSU Press. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-8071-2962-3. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d Valynseele, Joseph (1 January 1957). Les maréchaux du Premier Empire: Leur famille et leur descendance (in French). FeniXX. p. 180. ISBN 978-2-402-51530-6. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  6. ^ "PRINCE MURAT, HEAD OF HIS HOUSE, DEAD; Great-Grandson of a Marshal of France and Napoleon's Sister, Caroline. NOTED AS A SPORTSMAN His Home In Paris Used by President Wilson--Kin Was Husband of Washington's Niece". The New York Times. 3 November 1932. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  7. ^ Anales de la Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía. Vol. XII. (2009) (in Spanish). RAMHG. pp. 147, 237.
  8. ^ Requirez, Salvatore (14 June 2022). Il Leone di Palermo (in Italian). Edizioni Piemme. p. 228. ISBN 978-88-585-2914-0. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Auto kills Prince Murat". The New York Times. 27 July 1906.
  10. ^ "TALKED ABOUT IN PARIS; Ministerial Crisis Expected When Parliament Meets. The Passing of the Bal de l'Opera -- Two Leading Imperialist Hostesses Dead". The New York Times. 4 October 1903. p. 5. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  11. ^ TIMES, Special Cable to THE NEW YORK (4 October 1903). "DOINGS OF AMERICANS IN FRANCE; Paris Rapidly Filling Up -- Comte and Comtesse Boni de Castellane at the Chateau le Marais". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  12. ^ Scarisbrick, Diana. "THE MURAT TIARA". Sothebys.
  13. ^ World, Times Wide (21 April 1940). "MRS. VANDERBILT DIES IN HOSPITAL; Widow of W. K. and Daughter of Late Oliver Harriman Noted for War Work and Charities". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  14. ^ "Lewis Morris Rutherfurd" (PDF). New York Times. June 1, 1892. Retrieved 2014-01-09. Lewis Morris Kutherfurd died on Decoration Day at his home, Tranquillity, N.J., in the seventy-sixth [sic] year of his age.
  15. ^ Times, Special Cable To The New York (21 September 1911). "MISS RUTHERFURD WEDS OGDEN L. MILLS; Daughter of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Sr., Married at Chateau Du Quesney in France. FIRST A CIVIL CEREMONY Gay Luncheon for Twelve at 17th Century Estate Follows Marriage Service by the Rev. J. B. Morgan". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  16. ^ Times, the New York Times Company Special Cable To the New York (5 March 1922). "MURAT ASKS CHECK ON SON'S SPENDING; Informs Court Young Prince Has Gone Through 1,000,000 Francs Since War Ended". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  17. ^ de Montjouvent, Philippe. ‘’Le Comte de Paris et sa Descendance’’. Editions du Chaney, 1998, Charenton, France. pp. 33-34, 78, 323, 386. (French). ISBN 2-913211-00-3.
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