Eugénie, Empress French (May 5, 1826 – July 11, 1920) Empress Consort France (1853-1871) wife Napoléon
Eugénie, Empress French (May 5, 1826 – July 11, 1920) Empress Consort France (1853-1871) wife Napoléon The last Empress of the French was born in Granada, Spain, to Don Cipriano de Palafox y Portocarrero, 1785-1839, 11th Duke of Peñaranda Grandee of Spain, 17th Marquess of Ardales, 17th Marquess of Moya, 13th Marquess of la Algaba, 18th Count of Teba, 8th Count of Montijo and ?th Count of Ablitas (1785-March 15, 1839), and his half-Scottish, quarter-Belgian, quarter-Spanish wife (m. December 15, 1817), María Manuela Enriqueta Kirkpatrick de Closbourn y de Grevigné (February 24, 1794 – November 22, 1879), a daughter of the Scots-born William Kirkpatrick of Closbourn (1764-1837), who became U. S. Consul to Málaga and later was a wholesale wine merchant, and his wife Marie Françoise de Grevigné (b. 1769), daughter of Liège-born Henri, Baron de Grevigné (b. Notre-Dame-aux-Fonts, Liège, June 2, 1744) and wife (m. Málaga, 1766) Spanish-born doña Francisca Antonia Gallegos (1751-1853). Eugenia's older sister, María Francisca de Sales Portocarrero de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, also known as Paca (1825-1860), who inherited most of the family honours and was 12th Duchess of Peñaranda Grandee of Spain and 9th Countess of Montijo, title later ceded to her sister, married the Duke of Alba in 1849. Until her own marriage in 1853, Eugénie variously used the titles of Countess of Teba or Countess of Montijo, but some family titles were legally inherited by her elder sister, through which they passed to the House of Alba. After the death of her father Eugenia became the 9th Countess of Teba, and is named as such in the Almanach de Gotha (1901 edition). After Eugenia's demise all titles of the Montijo family came to the Fitz-Jameses (the Dukes of Alba and Berwick). Eugénie de Montijo, as she became known in France, was educated in Paris, at the fashionable convent of the Sacré Cœur, where she received a Catholic education. When Prince Louis Napoléon became president of the Secon
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