Joachim Murat (1767 - 1815)

Born 25 Mar 1767 in Labastide-Fortunière, Quercy, Guyenne, France

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Died 13 Oct 1815 at age 48 in Pizzo, Calabria, Regno di Napoli

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Biography

Joachim Murat Jordy was born on 25 March 1767 in Labastide-Fortunière, Quercy, and was baptised the next day in the loca church. His parents were Pierre Murat Jordy and Jeanne Loubières.^[1]

Joachim Murat was a French military officer. He took part in the French revolutionary and Empire wars, including the campaigns of Italy and Egypt, and the battles of Marengo, Austerlitz, Iéna, Eylau, Moskowa and Leipzig. He was Maréchal d'Empire in 1804, Grand Duke of Cleves and Berg in December 1805, and King of Naples in 1808.

Joachim Murat was born on 25 March 1767 in Labastide-Fortunière (now Labastide-Murat, Lot, France). He was the youngest of 11 children of Pierre Murat-Jordy and Jeanne Loubières, innkeepers. His father was a also a local administrator, churchwarden and steward of the Talleyrand family.

Joachim was originally destined for the church and sent to seminary.

Going back to the army in 1791, he became General Bonaparte's aide-de-camp in 1793 and was made Brigadier on 10 May 1796.

After leading an active role in the coup d'état of 18 brumaire, putting Napoléon on the throne, he married Napoléon's sister Caroline on 18 January 1800. Joachim and Caroline Murat had four children:

1. Achille, Prince Murat (1801-1847)
2. Laetizia (1802-1859)
3. Lucien, Prince Murat (1803-1878), ancestor of the current Murat family
4. Louise (1805-1889).

On 2 May 1815, Murat was beaten by the Austrians at Tolentino. He fleed from Naples on 19 May and took refuge in Provence, before fleeing again to Corsica after Napoléon's defeat at Waterloo.

Hoping to reconquer Naples, Murat left Ajaccio on in September 1815 and reached Pizzo in Calabria on 8 October 1815. There, the hostile crowd captured him and he was locked in the local prison. Knowing that the result was already decided, Murat refused to attend his trial. He was executed by firing squad on 13 October 1815.

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1. ↑ Acte de baptême de Joachim Murat Jordy: Acte en date du 25 mars 1767, Baptêmes-Mariages-Enterrements 1716-1802 Labastide-Murat, AD Lot 4 E 197 (vue 182/635). Consulté le 3 juin 2022.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Murat

• Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 9 December 2019), memorial page for Joachim Murat (25 Mar 1767–13 Oct 1815), Find A Grave: Memorial #7827, citing Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France ; Maintained by Find A Grave .

See also:

• 'Jane Austen's Family through Five Generations' by Maggie Lane, published by Robert Hale Limited, London. ISBN 0 7090 4832 7. Includes extensive family trees. Details of contemporaries and other connections are also mentioned in the text.Jane Austen's Family through Five Generations