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Principality of Benevento

Principality of Benevento
Principato di Benevento (Italian)
1806–1815
Italy in 1815
Italy in 1815
StatusClient state
CapitalBenevento
GovernmentMonarchy
• Prince
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1806–1815)
Historical eraNapoleonic Wars
• Creation
28 August 1806
• Restored to papal control
28 August 1815
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Papal States
Papal States

The Principality of Benevento was a principality in Italy created by Napoleon after he became King of Italy in 1805. It consisted of the Italian commune of Benevento, an exclave of the Papal States from 1463 within the territory of the Kingdom of Naples.

The principality was created by Napoleon for his chief diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. It was nominally sovereign, but the prince did have to take an oath to the king.

The principality was short-lived. Talleyrand was never to settle down and actually rule his new principality.[1] 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.

References

  • Cooper, Duff (1932). Talleyrand. New York: Harper.

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