1 Further relatives were enlisted in the service of the pope in the Papal State.

2 The southern borders of the little Papal State now touched on the lands of the same family.

3 Normally feudal grants were made within the Patrimony and the Papal State in return for military service.

4 In 1870, Italian troops took control of the Papal States, leading to the unification of Italy.

5 A Franciscan from Genoa, he enriched his family and the Papal States through simony and heavy taxation.

6 They came to rule Rome and its surrounding territories ( the Papal States ) as largely unchallenged masters.

7 Then normal candidates for Italian unification are Sardinia-Piedmont, the Papal States,(www.Sentencedict.com) or the Two Sicilies.

8 On the site of a Roman colony, it became part of the Papal States in '3. Population, 90,47.

9 On the site of a Roman colony, it became part of the Papal States in 1631. Population, 90,147.

10 Towards the 15th century there were among the city-states five main ones—the Duchy of Milan, the Republic of Florence and Venice, the papal states and the kingdom of Venice.

11 Prior to 1870, the pope's temporal authority extended over a large area of central Italy, the territory of the Papal States that was formally known as the " Patrimony of St Peter".