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The Papal States (/ ... in 1808 the French Empire under Napoleon invaded again, and this time on 17 May 1809 the remainder of the States of the Church were annexed to ...
On 17 May 1809, Napoleon issued two decrees from Schönbrunn Palace near Vienna in which he reproached the popes for the ill use they had made of the donation of Charlemagne, his "august predecessor”, and declared those territories which were still under the direct control of the Papal States were to be annexed by the French Empire. The ...
The Kingdom of Naples (Latin: Regnum Neapolitanum; Italian: Regno di Napoli; Neapolitan: Regno 'e Napule) was a state that ruled the part of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States between 1282 and 1816.
In 1815, after the Napoleonic Wars, the town was ceded back to the Papal States. In 1860, it joined Pontecorvo , the other southern Italian papal exclave, in being united with the new Kingdom of Italy .
Napoleon then declared war on the Papal States for a second time, sending 9,000 troops under General Louis-Alexandre Berthier to occupy Rome and dissolve the state. Refusing to renounce his temporal authority, Pius VI was exiled from Rome, and later died in Valence, France .
This category includes historical wars in which Papal States (6th century–1870) participated. ... Napoleonic Wars (22 C, 104 P) S. Second Desmond Rebellion (1 C, 8 P)
All the other Italian states remained independent, with the most powerful being the Venetian Republic, the Medici's Duchy of Tuscany, the Savoyard state, the Republic of Genoa, and the Papal States. The Gonzaga in Mantua, the Este in Modena and Ferrara and the Farnese in Parma and Piacenza continued to be important dynasties.
Following an invasion from the army of the Kingdom of Naples on 30 September 1799, the Papal States were restored under the rule of Pope Pius VII in June 1800. [3] The French Revolutionary Army invaded the Papal States again in 1808, after which it was divided between the First French Empire and the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy until the end of ...