Principality of Piombino Principato di Piombino (Italian) | |||||||||
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1398–1805 | |||||||||
Status | Principality | ||||||||
Capital | Piombino | ||||||||
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Religion | Catholicism | ||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
• 1398–1405 | Gherardo Appiani (first lord) | ||||||||
• 1777–1801 | Antonio II Boncompagni Ludovisi (last prince) | ||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Established | 1398 | ||||||||
• Raised to principality | 1594 | ||||||||
1799 and 1803 | |||||||||
28 March 1801 | |||||||||
June 23, 1805 | |||||||||
1815 | |||||||||
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The Lordship of Piombino (Signoria di Piombino), and after 1594 the Principality of Piombino (Principato di Piombino), was a small state on the Italian peninsula centered on the town of Piombino and including part of the island of Elba. A vassal of the Kingdom of Naples associated with the State of the Presidios and a territory of the Holy Roman Empire formed from the remnants of the Republic of Pisa, it existed from 1399 to 1805, when it was merged into the Principality of Lucca and Piombino. In 1815 it was absorbed into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.