Jacques-Victor Henry

For the French physical chemist, see Victor Henri.

Henry II
Prince Royal of Haiti
Portrait by Richard Evans
King of Haiti (unproclaimed)
Reign8 October 1820 –
18 October 1820
PredecessorHenry I
SuccessorJean-Pierre Boyer
as President of Haïti
Born(1804-03-03)3 March 1804
Empire of Haiti
Died18 October 1820(1820-10-18) (aged 16)
Sans-Souci Palace, Kingdom of Haiti
Names
Jacques-Victor Henri Christophe
FatherHenry I
MotherMarie-Louise Coidavid
ReligionRoman Catholicism

Jacques-Victor Henry,[1] Prince Royal of Haiti (3 March 1804 – 18 October 1820) was the heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of Haiti.[2]

He was the youngest child of Henri Christophe, then a general in the Haitian Army, by his wife Marie-Louise Coidavid. His father became President of the State of Haiti in 1807, and on March 28, 1811, he was proclaimed King of Haiti. The Prince Royal had two older brothers who both died before the proclamation of the kingdom, so he became the heir apparent with the title Prince Royal of Haiti, which came with the style of Royal Highness.

Following the death of his father on October 8, 1820, the Prince Royal should have been proclaimed as King Henri II of Haiti, but the country was already in turmoil and he never had a chance. Ten days later, he was murdered after being bayoneted by revolutionaries at the Sans-Souci Palace.[3]

  1. ^ Christophe, Henri; Clarkson, Thomas (1952). Henry Christophe & Thomas Clarkson: A Correspondence. University of California Press.
  2. ^ Cole, Hubert (1967). Christophe, King of Haiti. Viking Press. ISBN 978-0-670-00280-1.
  3. ^ Trouillot, Michel-Rolph (27 December 1997), "Silencing the Past: Layers of Meaning in the Haitian Revolution", in Sider, Gerald; Smith, Gavin (eds.), Between History and Histories, University of Toronto Press, pp. 31–61, doi:10.3138/9781442671324-003, ISBN 978-1-4426-7132-4, retrieved 29 April 2023