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Theodore I
King of Corsica
ReignMarch 1736 – November 1736
SuccessorColonel Frederick (titular)
Born25 August 1694
Köln, Holy Roman Empire
Died11 December 1756 (aged 62)
London, Kingdom of Great Britain
Burial
St Anne's Church, Soho, London
SpouseCatalina Sarsfield
Issue
  • unnamed daughter
  • Colonel Frederick (claimed)

Theodore I of Corsica (25 August 1694 – 11 December 1756), born Freiherr Theodor Stephan von Neuhoff,[a] was a German adventurer who was briefly King of Corsica. Theodore is the subject of an opera by Giovanni Paisiello, Il re Teodoro in Venezia (1784, Vienna), and one of the six kings in Venice in Voltaire's Candide.
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