Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg
Maximilian Josèphe Eugène Auguste Napoléon de Beauharnais ( born October 2, 1817 in Munich, .. † 20 Oktoberjul / November 1 1852greg in Saint Petersburg ) was the 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg. After his marriage (1839 ) he became Prince Romanovsky.
Life
Maximilian was the second son of Eugène de Beauharnais and his wife Princess Augusta of Bavaria, daughter of the first Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph and his first wife Princess Auguste Maria Wilhelmine of Hesse- Darmstadt. He was the paternal grandson of Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of the French.
After the fall of Bonaparte, his father got in 1817 by his father Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria the title of Duke of Leuchtenberg with the same name Landgrafentum and the Principality of Eichstätt awarded as caste domination. When his father in 1824 and his older brother Charles Auguste Eugène Napoléon de Beauharnais died, he inherited the title of duke and all his rights. Maximilian was in 1847 appointed Honorary Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
Through his relationship to Emperor Napoleon Maximilian de Beauharnais was not a good game for a Daughter of the Czar. But Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna had had announced that she would never marry if she had to leave Russia. So the father agreed. On July 2, 1839 married Duke Maximilian of Leuchtenberg in the chapel of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna Romanova, eldest daughter of the Russian Tsar Nicholas I and Princess Charlotte of Prussia. His father gave him and his descendants on July 14, 1839 the hereditary title of Prince, Prince or Princess Romanovsky.
From the joint connecting seven children were born:
- Alexandra Maximilianowna (1840-1843)
- Maria Maximilianowna (1841-1914)
- Nicholas Maximilianowitsch (1843-1891), 4th Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince Romanovsky
- Eugenia Maximilianowna (1845-1925)
- Maximilianowitsch Eugen (1847-1901), 5th Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince Romanovsky
- Sergei Maximilianowitsch (1849-1877) fallen in the Russian- Turkish War
- Georgi Maximilianowitsch (1852-1912), 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince Romanovsky
Worth mentioning
The urn with the heart of Duke Maximilian stands along with the hearts of his mother and his sister Auguste Carolina in a display case in the royal crypt of St. Michael in Munich.
His grandson, Prince Peter of Oldenburg, from the marriage of his youngest daughter Eugenia Maximilianowna, married Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Romanova in 1901, the youngest sister of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II Because Peters homosexuality was annulled marriage, an imperial decree.