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In early 1806 Napoleon conquered the Kingdom of Naples. The Emperor Napoleon first named his brother Joseph Bonaparte to be King and then his brother-in-law and Marshal Joachim Murat in 1808, when Joseph was given the Spanish crown.
Both Naples and Sicily were conquered by a Spanish army during the War of the Polish Succession in 1734, and Charles, Duke of Parma, a younger son of King Philip V of Spain, the first member of the French House of Bourbon to rule in Spain, was installed as King of Naples and Sicily from 1735.
Naples was subsequently passed from empire to empire throughout the Middle Ages: it remained prosperous during Norman control in 12th century; a German emperor ruled for brief period and oversaw the founding of Naples University in 1224, and in 1265 it was conquered by the French Angevins, who built the majestic Castel Nuovo.
In 1734 the Spanish prince Don Carlos de Borbón (later King Charles III) conquered Naples and Sicily, which were then governed by the Spanish Bourbons as a separate kingdom. During the 18th century the Bourbon kings, in the spirit of “enlightened despotism,” sponsored reforms to rectify social and political injustices and to modernize the ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In 1806 the kingdom of Naples was conquered by Napoleon Bonaparte who appointed his brother Joseph as the new king. The Bourbons were forced to retreat to Sicily. After a few years the French emperor also conquered Spain, so Joseph Bonaparte left to go to reign the Iberian peninsula.
It was ceded to the Austrian Habsburgs in 1713 but was conquered in 1734 by the Spanish Bourbons, who reestablished the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Napoleon annexed it to France and then made it an independent kingdom (1806–15), after which the Bourbons were restored.
May 17, 2018 · Spanish Naples (1504 – 1713) saw itself as the defender and legitimate successor of the formerly independent Aragonese kingdom destroyed by French invasions in 1494 and 1499.
