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The units are listed by their respective army branches, i.e. Guard infantry and engineers. All of the regiments and units pertaining to the Guard had the phrase "della Guardia Reale" (Italian: 'of the Royal Guard') after their official name, to indicate their status as part of the Royal Household Guard. [citation needed]
The Royal Guard of Naples was split into two separate sections: The Cavalry and Infantry of the Guard. By the 1815 campaign, the Guard was able to muster two entire divisions and a substantially large amount of field artillery. As was the case with most of the army in 1806, the Guard was overlooked during Joseph's reign.
The Neapolitan Regiment of Honour Guards (Italian: Reggimento delle Guardie d'Onore) was a royal bodyguard unit of the Royal Neapolitan Guard, and was in turn part of the wider Neapolitan Army. The regiment was formed following the succession of Joachim Murat , and would continue to act as the official bodyguard under different designations ...
A royal guard or the palace guard, is a group of military bodyguards, soldiers or armed retainers responsible for the protection of a royal family member, such as a king or queen, or prince or princess.
Naples, which was the capital of the Duchy of Naples since the 7th century, surrendered to Roger II of Sicily in 1137, and was annexed to the Kingdom of Sicily. [6] The Normans were the first to bring political unity to southern Italy in the centuries after the failure of the Byzantine effort to reconquer Italy.
The Stratioti or Stradioti (Greek: στρατιώτες, στρατιώται stratiotes, stratiotai; Albanian: Stratiotë, Stratiotët, Stradiotë; [2] Italian: stradioti, stradiotti, stratioti, strathiotto, strathioti; French: estradiots; Serbo-Croatian: stratioti, stradioti; Spanish: estradiotes [3]) were mercenary units from the Balkans recruited mainly by states of Southern Europe and ...
King of Sicily, Naples and Albania (Re di Sicilia, Napoli e Albania) Charles II, the Lame (Carlo II, lo Zoppo) 7 January 1285 5 May 1309 • Son of Charles I King of Naples (Re di Napoli) Robert I, the Wise (Roberto I, il Saggio) 5 May 1309 20 January 1343 • Son of Charles II King of Naples (Re di Napoli) Joanna I (Giovanna I) 20 January 1343
The Albanian nobility was an elite hereditary ruling class in Albania, parts of the western Balkans and later in parts of the Ottoman world. The Albanian nobility was composed of landowners of vast areas, often in allegiance to states like the Byzantine Empire, various Serbian states, the Republic of Venice, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Naples in addition to the Albanian principalities.