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| | Joséphine de Beauharnais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | She was born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie in Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique on a slave plantation, the daughter of Joseph-Gaspard de Tascher, chevalier, seigneur de la Pagerie, lieutnant of infantry of the navy, and Rose-Claire des Vergers de Sanois. |
 | | With him she had a son, Eugène de Beauharnais (1781-1824), and one daughter, Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837), who married Napoleon's brother, Louis Bonaparte, in 1802. |
 | | By her son's daughter, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, wife of King Oscar I of Sweden, she is a direct ancestress of the present royal houses of Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein. |
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