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The Prince of Collereale (Italian: Principe di Collereale) is an Italian title of nobility granted on the 23rd of March 1718 by King Victor Amadeus II of Sicily, to Don Giovanni Antonio Capece Minutolo (1680-1742), Baron of Callari, Baccarati and Ogliastro. The fiefdom was previously been held by the Paterno family since 1710, however they sold it to the state.

The Capece Minutolo family held Collereale for more than 100 years, officially recognised by the House of Bourbon Two Sicilies, the ruling family of Sicily and Naples.

After the end of Italian Unification in 1861 the island of Sicily became part of the newly formed Italian State. The following years, a branch of the Capece Minutolo family migrated to Parga, Greece and slightly altered their surname from Capece (Capece Minutolo Galleti) to the more Greek sounding Caperdos.

The de jure rights to the family titles passed through marriage from the Caperdos to the Triantis and the Theocharopoulos families. The current titular Prince of Collereale (as direct descendant of the first Capece Minutolo Prince) is Don Georgios M. Theocharopoulos, great grandson of Donna Evgenia Anna Galleti Capece Minutolo Caperdou (1907-1993), because according to the tradition of noble title inheritance in the Bourbonic Kingdom of Naples and Sicily, titles could be passed through the female line too.