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Principality of Benevento Principato di Benevento (Italian) | |||||||||
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| 1806–1815 | |||||||||
.jpg) Italy in 1815 | |||||||||
| Status | Client state | ||||||||
| Capital | Benevento | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
• Prince | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1806–1815) | ||||||||
| Historical era | Napoleonic Wars | ||||||||
• Creation | 28 August 1806 | ||||||||
• Restored to papal control | 28 August 1815 | ||||||||
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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.