French marshall; he married Caroline Bonaparte (1800) and succeeded Joseph Bonaparte as king of Naples (1808); in 1815 he was captured and shot in an attempt to retake Naples.

REFERENCES TO King Joachim Murat of Naples and Sicily:

John Whishaw to Smithson Tennant, 31 December 1813 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)

Lady Holland to John Whishart, 17 December 1814 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)

Henry Holland to John Whishaw 30 December 1814 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)

John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 15 March 1815 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)

Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, 20 May 1815 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 4 November 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Samuel Parr to Cyrus Redding, 18 June 1820 in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858)