Francesco Rospigliosi Pallavicini was born in Rome, in what was then the Papal States in the Italian Peninsula under the sovereign direct rule of the pope, from the 750 until 1870.
 He was born in Rome, in what was then the Papal States. 
The Papal States, officially the State of the Church (Italian: "Stato della Chiesa" , ] ; Latin: "Status Ecclesiae" ), were territories in the Italian Peninsula under the sovereign direct rule of the pope, from the 8th century until 1870. 
