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, France, Boyer was the daughter of Pierre André Boyer and Rosalie Fabre.[citation needed] Other explain that she was the sister of an innkeeper with whom Lucien had lodged in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume.[1] Christine was illiterate, and unable to sign her own name.[citation needed]
Bonaparte and Boyer married on 4 May 1794.[citation needed] The couple were married hastily, and without the consent of the Bonaparte family.[citation needed] Lucien's brother Napoleon and their mother, Letizia, were displeased with the match.[citation needed]
Issue
The couple had four children, of whom two daughters had descendants.
Filistine Charlotte (Saint-Maximin, 28 February 1795 – 1865, Rome); married first, 1815, Prince Mario Gabrielli. She married secondly, 1842, Cavaliere Settimio Centamori. She had eight children by her first husband:
a son (1796–1796) ;
Victoire Gertrude (1797–1797) ;
Christine-Egypta (Paris, 18 October 1798 – Rome, 1847); married first, 1818, Count Arvid Posse. This ended in divorce in 1824. She married secondly, 1824, Lord Dudley Stuart. She had one child, a son, by her second husband.[2]
Death
Boyer died in Paris, in childbirth.[1] She was buried in the Santi Apostoli Giovanni e Andrea cemetery in Canino, Lazio, Italy.[citation needed]
Bibliography
Lucien Bonaparte à Saint-Maximin, Yacinthe Saint-German Leca
