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Jean Baptiste Bernadotte

As the chart below shows, Jean Baptiste Bernadotte is the great x 4 grandfather of the present Kings of Sweden and Norway, and the Queen of Denmark.  He was a General in Napoleon's army who was given Sweden to rule in 1810 after the Vasa family was deposed. His wife, Desiree Clary, was the daughter of a French silk manufacturer. Her sister,  Julie Clary, had also done well from the French Revolution, marrying Napoleon's brother, Joseph, and being temporary rulers of Spain in 1808. Gustav V Adolf's marriage with Victoria of Baden, the great x 2 grand-daughter of Vasa Gustav IV, reconciled Sweden with its traditional ruling family; and subsequent marriages with members of the British royal family brought the descendants of Francois Clary and Bernadotte into the European royal fold.

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  Jean Baptiste
 Bernadotte
  Oscar I   Oscar II   Gustav V Adolf    Gustav VI Adolf   Gustav Adolf    Carl XVI Gustav 
(France) of Sweden  of Sweden  of Sweden  of Sweden  of Sweden  of Sweden 
   b. 1763   b. 1799   1829-1907   b. 1855   1882-1973        b. 1946
  (ruled 1872-1907) (ruled  1907-1950)   (ruled 1950-1973) (ruled 1973 on)
m.   m. m. m. m. m. m.
  Desiree Clary   Josephine Beauharnais       Victoria of Baden   Margaret   Sibylla   Sylvia
  (France)   b. 1899
(France)
      (g. g. grand-daughter   1882-1920   1906-1972    
b. 1778 (d. of Napoleon's wife, Josephine) of Vasa Gustav IV) (d. of Arthur, Q Victoria's son) (g. grand-daughter of Q Victoria via Leopold)
                     
                      Ingrid of Sweden   Margrethe II Queen of Denmark
                   1902-2000   1940
                    m.
Frederick IX of Denmark
  m.
Henri, Count of Laborde de Monzepat
                      d. 1972    
                           
                   William of Sweden        Anne-Marie of Denmark
                   1884-1965       1946-
                  m.
 Marie of Russia
      m.
 Constantine II of Greece
                   1890-1958       b. 1940
                   
                    Benedikte
                    1944-
                     
                   Carl of Sweden   Martha of Sweden    
            m.   1901-1954    
                  Ingebord
b. 1873
       
                           
              Louise of Sweden   Christian X of Denmark   Frederick IX of Denmark    
              b. 1850?   1870-1947 d. 1972 see above
              m.
Frederik VIII of Denmark
  m.
Alexandrine of Mecklen-burg
m.
Ingrid of Sweden
 
                       
    Gustav
1827
      Charles of Denmark (Haakon VII of Norway) 1872-1957   Olav V of Norway 1903-1991   Harald V 1937
      m.   m.   m.
          Charlotte       Maud (King George V's daughter)   Martha of Sweden   Sonja Haraldsen
    1830       1869-1938   1901-1954   1937
                   
    Charles XV               Princess Ragnhild 1930
          Charles Ludwig               m.
    1826-1872               Erling Lorentzen 
           (ruled 1859-1872)               1923
    m                
     Victoria               Astrid 1932
                    m.
Johan Ferner
1927

 

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