Editing House of Bernadotte (section)

=== French origins ===

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King [[Charles XIV John of Sweden|Charles John]]'s first known paternal ancestor was Joandou du Poey, who was a shepherd. He married Germaine de Bernadotte in 1615 in the southern French city of [[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]] and began using her [[surname]]. Through her the couple owned a building there called ''de Bernadotte'',<ref>''Ätten Bernadotte : biografiska anteckningar'', [Andra tillökade uppl.], Johannes Almén, C. & E. Gernandts förlag, Stockholm 1893, p. 1</ref> the surname theoretically meaning ''Young woman of [[Béarn]]'' in local dialect.<ref>{{cite book | last=Demitz | first=Jacob Truedson | title=Centuries of Selfies: Portraits commissioned by Swedish kings and queens| publisher=Vulkan Förlag | publication-place=Stockholm; New York | date=2020 | isbn=978-91-89179-63-9 | others=Preface by [[Ulf Sundberg]]|title-link=Centuries of Selfies|pages=155}}</ref>

A grandson of theirs, Jean Bernadotte (1649–1698), was a weaver.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gw.geneanet.org/eallain?lang=fr;pz=timothe;nz=billard;ocz=0;p=jean;n=bernadotte |title=Jean Bernadotte |publisher=geneanet.org |language=fr}}</ref>

Another Jean Bernadotte (1683–1760), his son, was a tailor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gw.geneanet.org/eallain?lang=fr;pz=timothe;nz=billard;ocz=0;p=jean;n=bernadotte;oc=1 |title=Jean Bernadotte |publisher=geneanet.org |language=fr}}</ref>

His son Henri Bernadotte (1711–1780) married Jeanne de Saint-Jean (1728–1809) and with her was the father of the future Swedish–Norwegian king. Henri was a local [[prosecutor]], from a family of [[artisan]]s,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ndf.fr/la-une/18-03-2011/bernadotte-un-general-de-napoleon-devenu-du-roi-de-suede | title=Bernadotte : un général de Napoléon devenu du Roi de Suède | date=18 March 2011 |publisher=ndf.fr |language=fr}}</ref> who had once been imprisoned for debt.<ref>''Bulletin du Musée Bernadotte'' volume 3–4, Pau 1958–1959, p. 57</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lefrancofil.com/4990/suede/le-fabuleux-destin-de-jean-baptiste-bernadotte/ | title=Le fabuleux destin de Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte : de Pau à Marseille | date=27 August 2010 |publisher=lefrancofil.com |language=fr}}</ref> This was a modest family which occupied only one floor of the house in a cross street in a popular and peripheral district of Pau.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.larepubliquedespyrenees.fr/2010/09/28/victoria-sur-les-pas-de-son-aieul,158177.php | title=Victoria de Suède sur les pas de son aïeul | date=28 September 2010 |publisher=larepubliquedespyrenees.fr |language=fr}}</ref>

Two branches of the French Bernadotte family survive. The elder descends from Andrew (''André'') Bernadotte, an older granduncle of Carl John's, with descendants today in the general population of France. The younger branch divided in two, one branch descending from the king's older brother John (''Jean Évangéliste'') Bernadotte (1754–1813), the heads of which were French [[baron]]s as of 1810 with [[Louvie-Juzon|Louvie]] Palace<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mediatheques.agglo-pau.fr/getImage/default.ashx?INSTANCE=exploitation&EIDMPA=IFD_FICJOINT_0006883&D=20120302095634 |title=Photo du Château Louvie, à Jurançon – Côté Est |publisher=J. Callizo, photographe (1909) |language=fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312110159/http://mediatheques.agglo-pau.fr/getImage/default.ashx?INSTANCE=exploitation&EIDMPA=IFD_FICJOINT_0006883&D=20120302095634 |archive-date=2016-03-12 }}</ref> in the south of Pau as their seat (branch extinct with the death of Baron Henri Bernadotte in 1966), and the other branch being the Swedish Royal House.<ref>''Bulletin du Musée Bernadotte'' charts on ancestry</ref>