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5 de ene. de 2022 · Elizabeth Patterson: The American Bonaparte. Not many have heard the story of Elizabeth Patterson, a woman from Maryland who, against all odds, became royalty, only to be dumped on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte. Elizabeth Patterson, known as Betsy, was born on February 6th, 1785, in Baltimore, to William Patterson, a successful businessman ...
14 de ago. de 2022 · Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, born in Baltimore in 1785, was the oldest daughter of 13 children. Her father was William Patterson, an Irish shipping merchant and one of the wealthiest men in Maryland. Elizabeth attended Madame Lacombe's Academy and studied history, culture, mathematics, and French, a skill that would later prove useful.
10 de dic. de 2021 · As she aged, Elizabeth lived alone in Baltimore’s Mt. Vernon neighborhood in Mrs. Gwinn’s boarding house. Neighbors often spotted her walking among her properties to collect rent. At her death in 1879, Elizabeth was worth about $1.5 million. She outlived her son, who died in 1870. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte is buried in Green Mount Cemetery.
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte died on April 4, 1879, at the age of 94. Her funeral was held at her daughter-in-law’s house and was attended by only the immediate family and a few friends. She was buried in Baltimore’s Green Mount Cemetery, under the epitaph: “After life’s fitful fever she sleeps well.”.
Elizabeth Patterson-Bonaparte est enterrée au cimetière de Greenmount à Baltimore. Ironie de l'histoire, la veuve de son frère, Marianne (Caton) Patterson, se remaria avec Richard Wellesley, premier marquis de Wellesley, frère aîné d'Arthur Wellesley, 1 er duc de Wellington, le vainqueur de Napoléon à Waterloo.
22 de nov. de 2023 · So says the epitaph etched on Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte’s tombstone in Green Mount Cemetery. The fever perhaps first flared when her notorious brother-in-law objected to her nuptials to Jérôme Bonaparte, Napoleon’s younger brother, on Christmas Eve in 1803.
8 de jul. de 2018 · Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: Napoleon’s Unwanted American Sister-in-Law As the nineteenth century began, both the United States and France were in transition. The American Revolution only officially ended in 1783, and now the president-helmed United States was forging an identity that rejected the courtly atmosphere of its European counterparts.
