Kingdom of Corsica (1736)

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Kingdom of Corsica
Regnu di Corsica (Corsican)
Regno di Corsica (Italian)
Königreich Korsika (German)
1736
Motto: Prudentia et industria vincitur tyrannis;
Pro bono publico regno corsice[
Theodore I
LegislatureDiet
History 
• Established
March 1736
• Constitution
15 April 1736
• Disestablished
11 November 1736
Area
[citation needed]8,680 km2 (3,350 sq mi)
Currencysoldi
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Republic of Genoa
Republic of Genoa
Today part ofFrance
∟ Corsica

The Kingdom of Corsica was a short-lived kingdom on the island of Corsica. It was formed after the islanders crowned the German adventurer Theodor Stephan Freiherr von Neuhoff[1] as King of Corsica.

History

Formation and downfall

At

knighthood, and waged war on the Genoese with consent of the 24-member Diet, at first with some success. But in-fighting among the rebels soon led to their defeat. The Genoese put a price on his head and published an account of his colourful past, and he left Corsica on November 11, 1736,[2] ostensibly to seek foreign assistance. After sounding out the possibility of protection from Spain and Naples, he set off to Holland, where he was arrested for debt in Amsterdam
.

On regaining his freedom, Theodore sent his nephew to Corsica with a supply of arms; he himself returned to Corsica in 1738, 1739, and 1743, but the combined Genoese and French forces continued to occupy the island. In 1749 he arrived in England to seek support, but eventually fell into debt and was confined in a debtors' prison in London until 1755. He regained his freedom by declaring himself bankrupt, making over his kingdom of Corsica to his creditors, and subsisted on the charity of Horace Walpole and some other friends until his death in London in 1756.

See also

Notes

  1. Freiin
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  2. ^ a b L. H. Caird, The History of Corsica (T. Fisher Unwin, 1899) pp. 92–97

Bibliography

  • Bent, J. Theodore (1886). "King Theodore of Corsica", The English Historical Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 295–307.
  • Fitzgerald, Percy (1890). King Theodore of Corsica. London: Vizetelly.
  • Gasper, Julia (2012). Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica: the Man Behind the Legend. University of Delaware Press.
  • Graziani, Antoine-Marie (2005). le Roi Théodore. Paris: Tallandier, coll. « Biographie ». 371 p., 22 cm. –
    ISBN 2-84734-203-6
    . (in French)
  • Pirie, Valerie (1939). His Majesty of Corsica: The True Story of the Adventurous Life of Theodore 1st. London: William Collins & Sons.
  • Vallance, Aylmer (1956). The Summer King: Variations by an Adventurer on an Eighteenth-Century Air. London: Thames & Hudson.

External links

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