Napoleon Louis Bonaparte
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A portrait of Napoléon Louis Bonaparte.
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| King of Holland | |
| Reign | 1 July 1810 – 13 July 1810 |
| Predecessor | Louis I |
| Grand Duke of Berg and Cleves | |
| Reign | 3 March 1809 – 1 December 1813 |
| Predecessor | Joachim I |
| Regent | Napoleon |
| Born | 11 October 1804 Paris, France |
| Died | 17 March 1831 (aged 26) Forlì, Italy |
| Burial | Saint-Leu-la-Forêt |
| Spouse | Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte |
| House | Bonaparte |
| Father | Louis I of Holland |
| Mother | Hortense de Beauharnais |
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Royal styles of Louis II of Holland |
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| Reference style | His Majesty |
| Spoken style | Your Majesty |
| Alternative style | Sire |
Napoléon-Louis Bonaparte (11 October 1804 – 17 March 1831), also known as Louis II of Holland, was the middle son of Louis I of Holland and Hortense de Beauharnais. His father was the younger brother of Napoléon I and reigned as King of Holland from 1806 to 1810, while his mother was the daughter of Josephine de Beauharnais, Napoléon's first wife. He was the older brother of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, future Emperor Napoleon III.
Napoléon Louis's elder brother, Napoléon Charles, died in 1807 at the age of four. On his death, Napoléon Louis became Prince Royal of Holland. It also made Napoléon Louis the second eldest nephew of Emperor Napoléon I, who at the time had no legitimate children, and he was his uncle's likely eventual successor. He lost this presumptive status on 20 March 1811 when his uncle's second wife, Marie Louise, gave birth to a son, Napoléon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte, who was styled the King of Rome and later the Duke of Reichstadt.
In 1809, Napoléon I appointed him as Grand Duke of Berg, a status he kept until 1813.
On 1 July 1810, Louis I of Holland abdicated his throne in favour of Napoléon Louis. For the nine days between his father's abdication and the fall of Holland to the invading French army in July 1810, Napoléon Louis reigned as Lodewijk II, King of Holland.
When Napoléon I was deposed in 1815 after the Battle of Waterloo, the House of Bourbon was restored to the throne of France. Napoléon Louis fled into exile, but the Bonapartes never abandoned the thought of restoring the Napoleonic Empire.
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