Editing Pope Leo XII (section)

===Family===
Della Genga was born in 1760 at the Castello della Genga in the territory of [[Fabriano]]<ref name=Toke>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09167a.htm Toke, Leslie. "Pope Leo XII." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 28 Aug. 2014]</ref> to an old noble family from [[Genga, Italy|Genga]], a small town in the [[March of Ancona]], part of the [[Papal States]]. He was the sixth of ten children born to Count Ilario della Genga and Maria Luisa Periberti di Fabriano,{{sfn|Boutry|2002|p=929}} and he was the uncle of [[Gabriele della Genga Sermattei]], who in the 19th century was the only [[cardinal-nephew|nephew]] of a pope to be elevated to cardinal.