Emperor of the French, King of Italy (see below), Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine (12 July 1806 – 19 October 1813), and Mediator of the Swiss Confederation (19 February 1803 – 19 October 1813)
An escutcheon, with a silver pale charged with the blue Milanic serpent (spitting out the first human for the Duchy of Milan). Both sides of the pale are divided horizontally. The upper right field shows the papal parasol with the keys of Saint Peter. The upper left shows the Venetian lion, but without bible and with a Phrygian cap (revolutionary symbol) on its head (for the Papal States). The lower right quarter shows the white eagle of the house of Este (for the Duchy of Modena) and the lower left shows the arms of Piemonte, but under to the right charged with a silver tower (for Rovigo and Feltre (for the Republic of Venice)). The shield is charged with an escutcheon showing the Iron Crown of Lombardy (with pinnacles (for the Ligurian Republic) in a red border with silver rings.
An escutcheon, with a silver pale charged with the blue Milanic serpent (spitting out the first human for the Duchy of Milan). Both sides of the pale are divided horizontally. The upper right field shows the papal parasol with the keys of Saint Peter. The upper left shows the Venetian lion, but without bible and with a Phrygian cap (revolutionary symbol) on its head (for the Papal States). The lower right quarter shows the white eagle of the house of Este (for the Duchy of Modena) and the lower left shows the arms of Piemonte, but under to the right charged with a silver tower (for Rovigo and Feltre (for the Republic of Venice)). The shield is charged with an escutcheon showing the Iron Crown of Lombardy (with pinnacles (for the Ligurian Republic) in a red border with silver rings.
Quarterly, first: Azure with an imperial eagle Or, encroaching a thunderbolt of the same, second and third: Argent a fess Sable surmounted by three martlets of the same (Armes des Beauharnais) and fourth : Or with three pals Vert.
Attached from France and Austria, which started from two lines; 1st Or, a lion Gules armed, langued and crowned Azure; , second Gules a the fess Argent; third Or, a bend Gules, charged with three alerions Argent. With a mantle of gules, sown with golden bees, fringed with gold, lined with ermines, with an imperial crown surmounted by a globe surmounted by a crisscrossed cross.
An escutcheon, with a silver pale charged with the blue Milanic serpent (spitting out the first human for the Duchy of Milan). Both sides of the pale are divided horizontally. The upper right field shows the papal parasol with the keys of Saint Peter. The upper left shows the Venetian lion, but without bible and with a Phrygian cap (revolutionary symbol) on its head (for the Papal States). The lower right quarter shows the white eagle of the house of Este (for the Duchy of Modena) and the lower left shows the arms of Piemonte, but under to the right charged with a silver tower (for Rovigo and Feltre (for the Republic of Venice)). The shield is charged with an escutcheon showing the Iron Crown of Lombardy (with pinnacles (for the Ligurian Republic) in a red border with silver rings.
Cut: I, party: a, Azure, with two cornucopias Or passed in saltire (Terra di Lavoro); b, Azure, to a golden dolphin (alias a crowned fish tail) (Otranto); II, of gold, to a triquêtre issante of a head of Mercury of carnation (Island of Sicily); above all azure, with the golden eagle, the head turned, the flight lowered, encroaching a thunderbolt of the same.
END OF REIGN:
Gironné of 15 pieces: I, in the shape of a quarter-quarter, of gold, with a triquêtre issuant of a head of Mercury of carnation (Island of Sicily); II, of gold to the horse contouné and frightened of sand (of Naples (old)); 3, Azure, 2 horns of plenty Or, set in saltire (Terra di Lavoro); IV, cut in A Azure with a comet Argent hairy Or, in B Argent with a flight Azure; V, Or, to the eagle Gules, crowned with the field, issuant of a fess tilted and lowered Azure (of Basilicata); VI, Argent, to the cross potencée Sable (of Lower Calabria); VII, quartered in saltire Or, with four pals Gules and Argent, with the cross potencée Sable (alias of Aragon and Lower Calabria) (of Upper Calabria); VIII, Or, four pals Gules, a dolphin Argent, plunging towards the end, debruising above all (d'Otranto); IX, quartered in saltire Azure and Argent, with the butt of gold, debruised above all (of Bari); IX, Azure, to a Saint-Michel Or, slaying a devil Sable, on a mountain with three cups of the second, issante of the point (of Capitanate); XI, Gules, to a star with eight spokes of gold, surrounded by a crown of foliage of the same (of Molise); XII, cut Gules, with the antique crown of gold, and of silver. (from Upper-Crown); XIII, Or, to the head Sable, surmounted by a yoke Gules (of Lower Abruzzo); XIV, Azure, to the eagle Argent, surmounting a mountain Or, issante of the point (of the Upper Abruzzo); XV, Gules accompanied by two cross bored the whole Argent; above all azure, with the golden eagle, the head turned, the flight lowered, encroaching a thunderbolt of the same (of Napoleon) in his pavilion of gules.
Two contiguous shields: part of one and cut of two: in 1, Gules with the open castle of gold and openwork Azure (Crown of Castile), in 2, Argent with the lion Gules armed, langued and crowned with gold (Kingdom of León), in 3 Or with four pals Gules (Principality of Catalonia), in 4 Gules with gold chains set in orle, cross and saltire, charged in the heart of a natural emerald (Kingdom of Navarre), in 5 Argent with a pomegranate Gules, stalked and foliated Vert and (Kingdom of Granada) 6 Azure, and Gules in the old and new world Or between the columns of Hercules Argent; on the whole of Azure, with the golden eagle, the rounded head, with the lowered flight, encroaching a thunderbolt of the same (House of Bonaparte).
Attached to the King of Naples and Clary: Coupé: I, party: a, Azure, with two cornucopias Or passed in saltire (Plowing); b, Azure, to a dolphin circled Argent (alias a crowned fish tail) (Otranto); II, of gold, to a triquêtre issante of a head of Mercury of carnation (Island of Sicily); above all azure, with the golden eagle, the head circled, the flight lowered, encroaching a thunderbolt of the same (from Napoleon to the golden eagle, the head circled, the flight lowered, encroaching a thunderbolt) of the same and that of Clary, Or with an eagle displayed Sable, membered, beaked and tied Gules, a chief Azure charged with a sun Or.
Two contiguous shields: part of one and cut of two: in 1, Gules with the open castle of gold and openwork Azure (Crown of Castile), in 2, Argent with the lion Gules armed, langued and crowned with gold (Kingdom of León), in 3 Or with four pals Gules (Principality of Catalonia), in 4 Gules with gold chains set in orle, cross and saltire, charged in the heart of a natural emerald (Kingdom of Navarre), in 5 Argent with a pomegranate Gules, stalked and foliated Vert and (Kingdom of Granada) 6 Azure, and Gules in the old and new world Or between the columns of Hercules Argent; on the whole of Azure, with the golden eagle, the rounded head, with the lowered flight, encroaching a thunderbolt of the same (House of Bonaparte) and that of Clary, Or with the eagle displayed Sable, membered, beaked and bound Gules, a chief Azure charged with a sun Or.
Coat of Arms of Lucien Bonaparte, Roman Prince of Canino
Fabre - Lucien Bonaparte
18 August 1814
29 June 1840
Elliptical shield, Gules with two bars of gold accompanied by two stars of the same, one in chief, the other in point crown of Roman Prince in the antique style, mantle Gules lined with ermine, Legion of honor.
On June 2, 1815, peer of France, making Lucien ipso facto a count of the Empire and French prince. (Nevertheless, he remains excluded from the imperial succession because of marriage not authorized by the emperor).
Quarterly: I and IV, Gules, to the lion Or crowned with the same, holding in its dexter paw a bundle of seven arrows Argent, pointed and fletched Or, and in its sinister paw, a sword Argent, garnished with gold (Prince of Orange); II and III, Azure, with the golden eagle, the head rounded, with the lowered flight, encroaching a thunderbolt of the same (of Napoleon).
Quarterly: I and IV, Gules, to the lion Or crowned with the same, holding in its dexter paw a bundle of seven arrows Argent, pointed and fletched Or, and in its sinister paw, a sword Argent, garnished with gold (Prince of Orange); II and III, Azure, with the golden eagle, the head rounded, with the lowered flight, encroaching a thunderbolt of the same (of Napoleon).
Quarterly: I and IV, Gules, to the lion Or crowned with the same, holding in its dexter paw a bundle of seven arrows Argent, pointed and fletched Or, and in its sinister paw, a sword Argent, garnished with gold (Prince of Orange); II and III, Azure, with the golden eagle, the head rounded, with the lowered flight, encroaching a thunderbolt of the same (of Napoleon).
Quarterly: I and IV, Gules, to the lion Or crowned with the same, holding in its dexter paw a bundle of seven arrows Argent, pointed and fletched Or, and in its sinister paw, a sword Argent, garnished with gold (Prince of Orange); II and III, Azure, with the golden eagle, the head rounded, with the lowered flight, encroaching a thunderbolt of the same (of Napoleon).
Coat of Arms of Catherine of Württemberg following her marriage to Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte. Before her marriage, the left part (that of the King of Westphalia) wasn't part of her coat of arms.
For Kingdom of Württemberg coat of arms: First part of gold, with three half antlers of sable deer, which is for the Duchy of Württemberg, and Second Part of gold with three lions passing sable, for the Duchy of Swabia.
Grand Dignitaries
Initially under the Constitution of the Year XII (1804), six Dignitaries of the Empire (Grandes Dignités de l'Empire) were created:
Or, a dextrochère of carnation, adorned Gules, turned up Ermine, holding the tables of the law Sable, the whole accompanied by three lozenges Sable; , a chief Azure sown with bees Or, which is that of the Princes Grand Dignitaries.
Shield on which is placed a double anchor, surrounded by the collar of the Legion of Honor placed on two Marshal's staff (azure sown with golden eagle), feathered helm, imperial mantle, marquis crown.
Party: to the I Gules with three lion cubs Or armed, languid and crowned Azure (Talleyrand-Périgord); in the II of gold with the boar wild boar passing sand loaded on the back of a silver cover (Benevento); to the head of the Sovereign Princes of the Empire debruising the score. Re que Diou: RE QUE DIOU.
Party: to the I, Or, to the dextrochère Argent, armed with Azure heightened Or, holding a sword Sable and charged with a shield Sable to a W surrounded by Commilitoni Victor Caesar, the whole of or, to the head of the Princes Grand Dignitaries of the Empire (Wagram); 2nd, Or, pale Gules, charged with three chevrons Argent (Neufchâtel), a chief of Princes Souverains.
Party: to the I, Azure, to a winged dragon Or (Borghesi), a chief of the same, charged with an eagle Sable, beaked, membered and crowned Or (Holy Empire); to II, Gules with a parasol with gules and gold braid, topped with a gold cruciferous globe, the spear-shaped stem loaded with two long-salted keys with the bits facing outwards and towards the top, one of gold and the other of silver, bound in gules (gonfalonnier of the Church); to the head of sovereign prince debruising.
Quarterly: I, Or with six spheres set in orle, five Gules, that in chief Azure charged with three fleur-de-lys Or (from Medici, for Tuscany); II, cut Argent and Gules (from Lucca); III, cut Gules and Or, the chief of the first charged with a two-headed eagle Sable, a crestier Sable with leaves of silver (alias of a branch of thorns Vert in pale) debruising, charged in abyss of 'an escutcheon Gules a bend checkered Argent and Azure, a chief Argent a cross Gules (of Cybo-Malaspina, for Massa and Carrara); IV, Gules with two bands Or accompanied of two mullets of the same; on the whole Azure, with the golden eagle, the circumvented head, with the lowered flight, encroaching a thunderbolt of the same (from Napoleon).
Coat of Arms (cropped) of Louis Alexandre Berthier
As Prince of Wagram:
Party: to the I, Or, to the dextrochère Argent, armed with Azure heightened Or, holding a sword Sable and charged with a shield Sable to a W surrounded by Commilitoni Victor Caesar, the whole of or, to the head of the fr: Princes Grand Dignitaries of the Empire (Wagram); 2nd, Or, pale Gules, charged with three chevrons Argent (Neuchâtel), a chief of Princes Souverains.
Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Prince de Neufchâtel et de Wagram, maréchal de France (1753-1815)
Coat of Arms as the Grand Duke of Berg & ClèvesBlason Joachim Murat Grand-Duc de Clèves et de BergCoat of Arms as King of Naples:Arms of Joaquim Murat as king of Naples
Coat of Arms as a Marshal and Admiral of the Empire (till 1806):Blason de Joachim Murat (1805)Coat of Arms as the Grand Duke of Berg & ClèvesBlason Joachim Murat Grand-Duc de Clèves et de Berg (Orn ext)Coat of Arms as King of Naples:Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Naples (1808)
As Marshal & Admiral of the Empire:
Shield on which is placed a double anchor, surrounded by the collar of the Legion of Honor placed on two Marshal's staff (azure sown with golden eagle), feathered helm, imperial mantle, marquis crown.
As Grand Duke of Berg & Clèves:
Party: in I of silver with a lion Gules, the forked tail passed in saltire (Duchy of Berg); in II Gules, to the escutcheon Argent, to the spokes of carbuncle Or, brochantes on the whole (Duchy of Cleves); on the whole azure with the golden eagle, the circumvented head, with the lowered flight, encroaching a thunderbolt of the same (from Napoleon), on the insignia of Grand-Admiral of the Empire.
As King of Naples:
Gironné of 15 pieces: I, in the shape of a quarter-quarter, of gold, with a triquêtre issuant of a head of Mercury of carnation (Island of Sicily); II, of gold to the horse contouné and frightened of sand (of Naples (old)); 3, Azure, 2 horns of plenty Or, set in saltire (Terra di Lavoro); IV, cut in A Azure with a comet Argent hairy Or, in B Argent with a flight Azure; V, Or, to the eagle Gules, crowned with the field, issuant of a fess tilted and lowered Azure (of Basilicata); VI, Argent, to the cross potencée Sable (of Lower Calabria); VII, quartered in saltire Or, with four pals Gules and Argent, with the cross potencée Sable (alias of Aragon and Lower Calabria) (of Upper Calabria); VIII, Or, four pals Gules, a dolphin Argent, plunging towards the end, debruising above all (d'Otranto); IX, quartered in saltire Azure and Argent, with the butt of gold, debruised above all (of Bari); IX, Azure, to a Saint-Michel Or, slaying a devil Sable, on a mountain with three cups of the second, issante of the point (of Capitanate); XI, Gules, to a star with eight spokes of gold, surrounded by a crown of foliage of the same (of Molise); XII, cut Gules, with the antique crown of gold, and of silver. (from Upper-Crown); XIII, Or, to the head Sable, surmounted by a yoke Gules (of Lower Abruzzo); XIV, Azure, to the eagle Argent, surmounting a mountain Or, issante of the point (of the Upper Abruzzo); XV, Gules accompanied by two cross bored the whole Argent; above all azure, with the golden eagle, the head turned, the flight lowered, encroaching a thunderbolt of the same (of Napoleon) in his pavilion of gules.
Under the head of the Princes of the Empire: of gold, to a Winged Victory of canarnation, dressed in silver, holding in his dexter hand a palm and in the sinister an olive wreath, the whole of vert, accompanied in tip of a dog lying on the sand.
II: 21 August 1810 – 5 February 1818 (became King of Sweden & Norway)
As Crown Prince of Sweden:Prins Karl (XIV) Johan
As Prince of Pontecorvo:Coat of arms of Jean-Baptiste BernadotteAs Crown Prince of Sweden:Karl XIV Johan Prince de Suède
As Prince of Pontecorvo:
Azure, a bridge with three arches Argent, on a river of the same, shaded Azure, and supporting two towers of the second; to the head of the Sovereign Princes of Empire debruising.
Jean-Baptiste-Jules Bernadotte, Prince de Ponte-Corvo, roi de Suède, Maréchal de France (1763-1844)
Blason Adolphe Édouard Casimir Joseph Mortier (1768-1835)
Under the head of the Dukes of the Empire: quartered, I and IV, gold, with the head of a sand horse, that of the I bypassed; II, Azure, to the right hand armed Or, holding a high sword Argent; III, Azure, to the senestrochere armed Or, holding a high sword Argent.
Under the head of the Dukes of the Empire: Or, with a border Azure, an escutcheon Azure, charged with an orle Or, accosted with two back-to-back hands, dressed in sable, holding silver badelaires.
Under the head of the Dukes of the Empire: Or, 2 lions leopard gules, each holding a Polish lance Sable, one in the first canton, the other, bypassed, in the fourth canton.
Under the head of the Dukes of the Empire: quarterly, to the I, Azure, to the lion Or; to II, Argent, to the hawk spinning Sable; 3rd, Or, a tower Azure, open Sable; 4th, Gules, to the fox passing Or.
Reisener - Portrait du maréchal Jean-Baptiste Bessières, duc d'Istries (1768-1813)
Party: 1st, Azure, to a right hand, cuirassed Argent, holding a sword of the same, garnished Or; 2nd, Or, a fess Vert, charged with two passers-by, each leading a woman, all Argent, the fess accompanied in chief by a flight Sable, and in base of a cross pattée reamed of the same; to the chief of the dukes of the Empire debruising.
Under the head of the Dukes of the Empire: party, to the I of azure to the dextrochère argent garnished with moving gold of the partition: in II Or with a lion sable, a fess gules debruised.
Claude-Victor Perrin
12 July 1807
Made a Marshal of the Empire in 1807 following his exemplary conduct at the Battle of Friedland.
Blason Étienne Jacques Joseph Macdonald (1765-1840) Duc de Tarente
Quarterly: 1st, Argent, to the lion Gules; 2nd, Or, a dextrochère, armed Gules, holding a cross crisscross at the stuck foot of the same; 3rd, Or, to a galley Sable, flagged and weather-vane Gules; 4th, Green; to the silver salmon; all below the head of the Duke of the Empire debruised.
Made a Marshal of the Empire in 1809 following his conduct at the Battle of Wagram, and only Marshal ever appointed on a battlefield. Napoléon decreed he was the choice "for France".
Blason Nicolas Charles Marie Oudinot (1767-1847) Duc de Reggio
Party: I, Gules, 3 helmets Argent; II, Argent, to the lion Gules, holding a grenade Sable inflamed Gules; all below the head of the Duke of the Empire debruised.
Blason Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont (1774-1852)
Quarterly: I and IV, Argent, 3 bends Gules; II, Or, to the standard Gules, to the cross Argent, set in bend, the trable Sable; III, party: a, Azure, to the Cross of Lorraine Or; Gules, to a flaming sword in pale Argent; all below the head of the Duke of the Empire debruised.
Made a Marshal of the Empire for his exemplary and conduct throughout the Peninsular War, and only marshal to gain his baton during said campaign. Awarded following the Siege of Tarragona.
Made a Marshal of the Empire for his brilliant defence and later tactical withdrawal which held off a Russian counter-attack at Polotsk twice. Granted his baton after the first battle.
Initially a brave cavalry commander, but later blamed for Napoléon's defeat during the Hundred Days. Made a Marshal of the Empire on the advice of Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout (Minister of War at this time). Last Marshal created by Napoléon.
^Napoleon left Elba on 26 February, however the title wasn't disestablished until 9 June.
^Though Napoléon and Joséphine had divorced in 1806, Napoléon kept her as an official "member of the senior family". Therefore, her title of Duchess of Navarre is kept here under Empress.
^The date is when the title was "confirmed by decree". If another year follows after that, this is when that title was abolished, or the titular holder dropped it, etc.
Citations
^ abcdOttfried Neubecker & J P Brooke-Little (1980). Heraldry: Sources, Symbols and Meanings. The Book Service Ltd. p. 98. ISBN978-0354044936.
^ abcdJirí Louda & Michael MacLagan (1999). Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe. Little, Brown. p. 125. ISBN978-1856054690.