page_title: Pope Pius VII
section_title: Death and burial
hierarchical_section_title: Pope Pius VII / Papacy / Death and burial
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Grabmal Pius VII., geboren als Graf Luigi Barnaba Niccolò Maria Chiaramonti (* 14. August 1742 Cesena, Kirchenstaat; † 20. August 1823 Rom), Papst von 1800 bis zu seinem Tod 1823 von Bertel Thorwaldsen in St. Peter (Rom) Italiano: Roma, tomba di Pio VII in San Pietro. Il monumento fu voluto e finanziato dal cardinale Ercole Consalvi, ripetutamente ministro e fedelissimo del papa Chiaramonti. La dedica sull'architrave della porta recita: A PIO VII, CHIARAMONTI DI CESENA, PONTEFICE MASSIMO, ERCOLE CARDINALE CONSALVI, ROMANO, DA LUI STESSO CREATO.
context_page_description: Pope Pius VII, born Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 14 March 1800 to his death in 1823. Chiaramonti was also a monk of the Order of Saint Benedict in addition to being a well-known theologian and bishop throughout his life.
  Chiaramonti was made Bishop of Tivoli in 1782, and resigned that position upon his appointment as Bishop of Imola in 1785. That same year, he was made a cardinal. In 1789, the French Revolution took place, and as a result a series of anti-clerical governments came into power in the country. In 1796, during the French Revolutionary Wars, French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Rome and captured Pope Pius VI, taking him as a prisoner to France, where he died in 1799. The following year, after a sede vacante period lasting approximately six months, Chiaramonti was elected to the papacy, taking the name Pius VII.
  Pius at first attempted to take a cautious approach in dealing with Napoleon.
context_section_description: In 1822, Pius VII reached his 80th birthday and his health was visibly declining. On 6 July 1823, he fractured his hip in a fall in the papal apartments and was bedridden from that point onward. In his final weeks he would often lose consciousness and would mutter the names of the cities that he had been ferried away to by the French forces. With the Cardinal Secretary of State Ercole Consalvi at his side, Pius VII succumbed to his injury on 20 August at 5 a.m.
  He was briefly interred in the Vatican grottoes but was later buried in a monument in Saint Peter's Basilica after his funeral on 25 August.
caption: The tomb of Pius VII
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