Background
Emmerich Joseph Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg was born in Mainz, then capital of the Electorate of Mainz, on 31 May 1773.
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Emmerich Joseph Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg was born in Mainz, then capital of the Electorate of Mainz, on 31 May 1773.
He studied at the University of Göttingen in Lower Saxony.
He was the nephew of Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, arch-chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince primate of the Confederation of the Rhine and Grand-Duke of Frankfurt. His family meant him to pursue a career in the church. He was named Councillor to the King of Bavaria.
After the Treaty of Lunéville (9 February 1801) between the French Republic and Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, he was accredited to Paris as minister of the Margrave of Baden.
Talleyrand befriended him and arranged for him to marry Mlle. de Brignoles, one of the ladies of the Empress. After the Treaty of Vienna in 1809 von Dalberg was naturalized as a French citizen, and charged with negotiating Napoleon"s marriage with Marie Louise of Austria.
On 4 August 1810 he was created a duke of the Empire. He was made a Councilor of State on 14 October 1810, with a large endowment.
When Talleyrand was disgraced, he also fell from favor.
After Napoleon was defeated, de Dalberg and Talleyrand both joined the French provisional government of 1814, and both assisted at the Congress of Vienna. He left France during the Hundred Days when Napoleon returned from exile, and returned after the second On 17 August 1815 he was made a Peer of France and Minister of State. On 26 January 1816 he was appointed ambassador to Turin.
In the chamber of peers he showed himself in favor of the Charter of 1814.
Towards the end of the Restoration he retired to his castle of Herrnsheim, where he died on 27 April 1833.