Melanie von Schlotheim

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Memorial stone of Melanie von Schlotheim at the location of the house where she died ( location )

Melanie von Schlotheim (* allegedly on September 7, 1803 in Nantes ; † July 8, 1876 in Bad Oeynhausen ) was an illegitimate daughter of Jérôme Bonaparte and the wife of the French officer Jean-Jacques Lagarde, Adélaïde Mélanie, née Denizot.

Life

Melanie von Schlotheim was born in 1803 as Félicité-Mélanie Adélaïde Lagarde in Nantes. It was here in 1802 that her mother met the young ensign Jérôme Bonaparte. Since he was posted to the French West Indies at the end of August 1802 and then moved to the United States of America for a long time, he initially learned nothing of the birth of his daughter.

Later, however, Jérôme Bonaparte confessed to his daughter. As King of Westphalia , he gave her the manor Wietersheim in 1810 . At the same time he raised her to the nobility and gave her the title of "Countess of Wietersheim".

After the collapse of the Kingdom of Westphalia, Jérôme Bonaparte went into exile with his family and the remains of his court. Here his daughter Melanie met her future husband, her father's chamberlain, Carl von Schlotheim . On November 15, 1820, the birthday of Jérôme Bonaparte, the couple married in Trieste.

Melanie von Schlotheim died on July 8, 1876 in Bad Oeynhausen as a result of a stroke.

progeny

  • Charlotte Luitgard Melanie Ernestine von Schlotheim (born November 6, 1821 in Trieste )
  • Eduard Ernst Franz Johann von Schlotheim (born August 16, 1823 in Paris, † July 15, 1886 in Seifershau in Silesia)
  • Mathilde Charlotte Henriette Emilie Auguste von Schlotheim (born May 3, 1826 in Wietersheim)
  • Emilie Melanie Jérômia von Schlotheim (born October 12, 1828 in Minden)

swell

  • Wilhelm Brepohl : The »Countess of Wietersheim«. A daughter of Jérôme Napoleon / Her life and the fate of her family . In: Mindener Heimatblätter , Volume 27 (1955), No. 6/7, pp. 68–77 and No. 8/10, pp. 89–96.
  • Siegfried Lotze: The families of Schlotheim and Jérômes daughter Mélanie Countess of Wietersheim . In: King Jérôme and the reformed state of Westphalia. A young monarch and his time in the field of tension between enthusiasm and rejection . (= Hessian research, volume 47), ed. by Helmut Burmeister, Hofgeismar 2006, pp. 125–128.
personal data
SURNAME Schlotheim, Melanie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lagarde, Félicité-Mélanie Adélaïde (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French woman, illegitimate daughter of Jérôme Bonaparte
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Nantes
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1876
Place of death Bad Oeynhausen