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KING OF SARDINIA

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KING OF See also:SARDINIA , 1720; abdicated 1730= See also:Anne of See also:Orleans, granddaughter of See also:Charles I. of See also:England. Charles See also:Emmanuel III. (d. 1773). See also:Victor Amadeus III. (d. 1796). Charles Emmanuel IV. Victor Emmanuel I. Charlesi See also:Felix (d. 1819); abdicated (d. 1824); abdicated (d. x831).

1802. 1821. See also:

Louis I.Iof See also:Vaud (d. 1302). See also:Edward the Liberal Aimone the Peaceful (d. 1329). (d. 1143). Amadeus VI . (d. 1383). Amadeus VII.

(d. 1391). Amadeus Amadeus VIIT., (d. 1402). first See also:

duke of See also:Savoy, afterwards See also:Pope Felix V. (d. 1451). Louis (d. 1465). III Amadeus IX. (d. 1472). Philibert L M.

1482). See also:

Philip II. (d. 1497)• Louis, king of See also:Cyprus (d. x482). Charles III. Philip, founder of the See also:Louise=Charles, (d. 1553). See also:house of See also:Nemours See also:count of See also:Angouleme d. 1533). Emmanuel ( See also:Francis I. oIf See also:France. Philibert (d. r58o). Charles Emmanuel I. (d.

1630). Victor Amadeus I.=See also:

Christina, daughter of See also:Henry IV. of France (d. x637). ) Charles I. Philibert H. (d. 1490). (d. 1504). Charles II. (d. 1496). Emmanuel Philibert (d.

1pog). See also:

Thomas 'rancis, See also:prince of See also:Carignano (d. 1656). Victor Emmanuel, Louis Amadeus, count of See also:Turin duke of Abruzzi (b. 1870). (b. 1873). Aimone. See also:Ferdinand, Philibert, duke of See also:Spoleto prince of See also:Udine duke of See also:Pistoia (b. 19oo). (b. 1884).

(b. 1895). Louis (d. r4r8). Ferdinand, duke of See also:

Genoa (d. x 755). Margherita —See also:Humbert, Thomas f duke o: king of See also:Italy. Genoa (b. x854). Humbert, count of Salemi (b. x888). Maria) See also:Bona Adaluert , See also:Eugene Margherita duke of See also:Bergamo (b. 1906) (b. 1896). (b. 1898).

while the See also:

French occupied the whole of See also:Piedmont. After the defeat of the French by the Austro-See also:Russian armies during See also:Bonaparte's See also:absence in See also:Egypt, Charles Emmanuel landed at See also:Leghorn, hoping to regain his See also:kingdom; but See also:Napoleon returned, and by his brilliant victory at See also:Marengo he reaffirmed his position in Italy. The king retired to See also:Naples, abdicated once The more (18o2), and entered the Society of Jesus; he Restora- tion. died in See also:Rome in 1819• Victor Emmanuel I. (18o2- '82o) remained in Sardinia until by the Final See also:Act of the See also:Congress of See also:Vienna (See also:June 9, 1815) his dominions were restored to him, with the addition of Genoa. From this See also:time the fortunes of the house of Savoy are See also:bound up with those of Italy (see ITALY, See also:History). Victor Emmanuel I. abdicated in 1821 in favour of his See also:brother Charles Felix (1821- 1831). The latter being without, a son, the See also:succession devolved upon Charles See also:Albert, of the See also:cadet See also:line of the princes of Carignano, who were descended from Thomas, youngest son of Charles Emmanuel I. Charles Albert abdicated, on the evening of his defeat at See also:Novara (See also:April 20, 1849), in favour of his son Victor Emmanuel II. (1849-1878), who on the 18th of See also:February 1861 was proclaimed king of Italy. Victor Emmanuel had married in 1842 Maria See also:Adelaide, daughter of the See also:archduke Rainer, who See also:bore him several See also:children, viz. Princess Clothilde (b.

1843), who married Prince Napoleon; Humbert, prince of Piedmont (1844); Amadeus, duke of See also:

Aosta (b. 1845); Oddone, duke of See also:Montferrat (b. 1846); and Princess Maria Pia (b. 1847). Humbert, who in 1868 had married Princess Margherita of Savoy, Humbert. daughter of Victor Emmanuel's brother, the duke of Genoa, became king of Italy on his See also:father's See also:death in 1878. In See also:July 1900 he was assassinated by an anarchist at See also:Monza. He was succeeded by his only son, Victor Emmanuel III., vtctor Emmanuel See also:born in 1869, who during his father's lifetime had Hr. See also:borne the See also:title of prince of Naples. The new king had married Princess Elena of See also:Montenegro in 1896, by whom he has had four children, viz. Princess Yolanda Margherita (b. 19or), Princess Mafalda (b. 1902), Humbert, prince of Piedmont (b. 1904), and Princess Giovanna (b.

1907). The second son of Victor Emmanuel II., Amadeus, duke of Aosta, was offered the See also:

crown of See also:Spain by the See also:Cortes in 187o, which he accepted, but, finding that his See also:rule was not popular, he voluntarily abdicated in 1873 rather than cause See also:civil See also:war. In 1867 he married Princess Maria See also:Vittoria dal Pozzo della Cisterna, who bore him three sons, viz. Emmanuel Philibert, duke of Aosta (b. 1869), commanding an See also:Italian See also:army See also:corps; Victor Emmanuel, count of Turin; and Louis Amadeus, duke of Abruzzi, an Italian See also:naval officer and a distinguished traveller, explorer and See also:man of See also:science. Amadeus's first wife having died in 1876, he married Princess Maria Letizia Bonaparte in 1888, who bore him a son, Humbert, count of Salemi (b. in 1889).

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