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Napoléon Joseph Ney (8 May 1803 – 25 July 1857) was a French politician, 2nd Prince de la Moskowa.
Ney was born in Paris on 8 May 1803. Named for his godfather, Emperor Napoléon I, he was the elder son of Michel Ney, Marshal of the Empire, and his wife, Aglaé Auguié (1782–1854).[1] His younger brothers were Michel Louis Félix, 2nd Duc d'Elchingen,[a] and Eugène Michel Ney (who died unmarried in 1845).[2]
His maternal grandparents were Pierre César Auguié and Adélaïde Henriette Genet (sister of Henriette Campan and Citizen Genêt).[3] His paternal grandparents were Pierre Ney, a master cooper and veteran of the Seven Years' War, and Marguerite Greiveldinger.[4][5]
In November 1831 he was created a peer of France in a batch of thirty-six lifetime peers.[6]
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In 1828, he married Albine Étiennette Marguerite Laffitte (1805–1881), the daughter of the banker and politician Jacques Laffitte.[7] Together, they were the parents of:
Ney also had an illegitimate child, Jules Napoléon Ney (1849–1900) with Julie de Mesvres. His son Jules, married Theresa-Olympe Pinto de Araujo, a daughter of the Brazilian expatriate Marcos Pinto de Araujo.[9]
He died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 25 July 1857.[10] As his only legitimate son predeceased him, the title of Prince de la Moskowa passed to his youngest brother, Edgar.[9]
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