Ferdinand I was King of the Two Sicilies from 1816 until his death. Before that he had been, since 1759, King of Naples as Ferdinand IV and King of Sicily as Ferdinand III. He was deposed twice from t
Portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs, c. 1772–1773
Ferdinand in 1760, at age nine
Piastra of Ferdinand IV of Naples, dated 1805
Portrait of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies by Vincenzo Camuccini, 1818-1819
Joachim Murat
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Joachim Murat was a Marshal of the Empire, regarded as the foremost cavalry commander of the Napoleonic Wars, who reigned as King of Naples as Joachim-Napoleon from 1808 to 1815. A brother-in-law of N
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
…appointing his son Francis as regent, and the queen, at Bentinck's insistence, was exiled to Austria, where she died in 1814. After the fall of Napoleon, Joachim Murat, who had succeeded Joseph Bonaparte as king of Naples in 1808, was dethroned in the Neapolitan War in 1815, and Ferdinand returned to Naples. By a…
Portrait c. 1808
Murat at the Battle of Abukir, painted by Antoine-Jean Gros (1804)
Murat in hussar uniform as commander of the Consular Guard, by François Gérard (1801)
Joachim Murat's signature, brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, at the bottom of a letter of complaint in 1807.