Kingdom of Naples (Napoleonic)

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Kingdom of Naples Regno di Napoli (Italian) Regno 'e Napule (Neapolitan) Royaume de Naples (French)
1806–1815
Flag (1811–1815) Medium Coat of arms (1808–1815)
Status	Client state of the French Empire
Capital	Naples
Common languages	Italian Neapolitan
Government	Unitary Bonapartist Absolute Monarchy
King
• 1806–1808	Joseph I
• 1808–1815	Joachim-Napoleon
Historical era	Napoleonic Wars
• Proclamation	30 March 1806
• Joseph Bonaparte enters Naples	15 February 1806
• Battle of Campo Tenese	10 March 1806
• Joachim Murat replaces Joseph	1 August 1808
• Battle of Tolentino	3 May 1815
• Congress of Vienna	9 June 1815
Preceded by Succeeded by Kingdom of Naples Kingdom of Naples
Today part of	Italy

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 a French invasion. Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon I, was installed in his stead: Joseph conferred the title "Prince of Naples" to be hereditary on his children and grandchildren. When Joseph became King of Spain in 1808, Napoleon appointed his brother-in-law Joachim Murat to take his place. Murat was later deposed by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 after striking at Austria in the Neapolitan War, in which he was decisively defeated at the Battle of Tolentino.