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Kingdom of Naples (Napoleonic) The Kingdom of Naples (Italian: Regno di Napoli; Neapolitan: Regno 'e Napule; French: Royaume de Naples) was a French client state in southern Italy created in 1806 when the Bourbon Ferdinand IV & III of Naples and Sicily sided with the Third Coalition against Napoleon and was in return ousted from his kingdom by ...
Napoleon Bonaparte [b] (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; [1] [c] 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military officer and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
Union with France (1501–1504) Upon his death in 1480, René of Anjou transferred his claim to his nephew, Charles IV, Duke of Anjou. Charles died in 1481 and willed his claim to Louis XI of France. His son Charles VIII attempted to take Naples by force, but failed and died childless in 1498.
L'affirmation du milieu comtal et la construction des états féodaux sous les Angevins de Naples (1265–1435), Paris: Publibook, ISBN 978-2748367409; Sakellariou, Eleni (2012), Southern Italy in the Late Middle Ages: Demographic, Institutional, and Economic Change in the Kingdom of Naples, c. 1440–c. 1530, Leiden: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-22406-3
He was the first Prince Murat, [1] Grand Duke of Berg from 1806 to 1808, [2] and King of Naples as Joachim-Napoleon [3] (Italian: Gioacchino Napoleone) from 1808 to 1815. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Born in Labastide-Fortunière in south-western France , Murat briefly pursued a vocation in the clergy before enlisting in a cavalry regiment on the outbreak of ...
The House of Bonaparte[ a ] is a former imperial and royal European dynasty of French and Italian origin. It was founded in 1804 by Napoleon I, the son of Corsican nobleman Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Buonaparte (née Ramolino). Napoleon was a French military leader who rose to power during the French Revolution and who, in 1804, transformed ...
The Kingdom of Italy was born on 17 March 1805, when the Italian Republic, whose president was Napoleon Bonaparte, became the Kingdom of Italy, with the same man (now styled Napoleon I) as the new King of Italy and his 24-year-old stepson Eugène de Beauharnais as his viceroy. Napoleon I was crowned at the Milan Cathedral, Milan on 23 May, with ...
The history of Naples is long and varied, dating to Greek settlements established in the Naples area in the 2nd millennium BC. [ 1 ] During the end of the Greek Dark Ages a larger mainland colony – initially known as Parthenope – developed on the Pizzofalcone hill in the 8th century BC, [ 2 ] and was refounded as Neapolis in the 6th century ...