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Encyclopedia > Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia
Victor Emmanuel I.
Victor Emmanuel I.

Victor Emmanuel I (July 24, 1759 – January 10, 1824) was the Duke of Savoy, Piedmont, and Aosta, and King of Sardinia from 1802 to 1821. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... July 24 is the 205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 160 days remaining. ... 1759 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Flag of Savoy This article is about the historical region of Savoy. ... Piedmont is a region of northwestern Italy. ... Aosta Aosta (French: Aoste) is the principal city of the Valle dAosta in the Italian Alps, north of Turin. ... Sardinia (pronounced ; Italian: ; Sardinian: or Sardinna) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily). ... --69. ... The coronation banquet for George IV 1821 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...


The second son of King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel was known from birth as the Duke of Aosta. He succeeded his brother, Charles Emmanuel IV, as King of Sardinia upon the latter's abdication in 1802. Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia. ... Charles Emmanuel IV. Charles Emmanuel IV (May 24, 1751 – October 6, 1819) was King of Sardinia from 1796 to 1802. ... --69. ...

Coat of Arms of the Kings of Sardinia of the House of Savoy after 1815.
Coat of Arms of the Kings of Sardinia of the House of Savoy after 1815.

In 1793 he took active part in the struggle of the old powers against the French Revolutionary forces in Savoy, but, defeated, in 1799 he had to took refuge in Sardinia, which was the only part of his domains that not conquered by the French. during his exile at Cagliari he constituted the Carabinieri élite corps, still existing as one of the main branches of Italian Army. Image File history File links Armoiries_Sardaigne_1815. ... Image File history File links Armoiries_Sardaigne_1815. ... 1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The French Revolution (1789–1815) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on... Flag of Savoy This article is about the historical region of Savoy. ... 1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Sardinia (pronounced ; Italian: ; Sardinian: or Sardinna) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily). ... Càgliari is the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. ... The Carabinieri is the shortened (and common) name for the Arma dei Carabinieri, an Italian military corps of the gendarmerie type with police functions, which also serves as the Italian military police. ...


He could return to Turin only in 1814, his realm reconstituted by the Congress of Vienna with the addition of the territories of the former Republic of Genoa. the latter became the seat of the Sardinian Navy. Victor Emmanuel abolished all the freedoms granted by the Napoleonic Codices and restored a fiercely oppressive rule: he refused any concession of a constitution, entrusted the istruction to the Church and reintroduced the persecutions against Jews and Waldensians. Torino redirects here. ... Year 1814 (MDCCCXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... The Congress of Vienna by Jean-Baptiste Isabey, 1819. ... The Republic of Genoa, in full the Most Serene Republic of Genoa (known as the Ligurian Republic from 1798 to 1805) was an independent state in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast from ca. ... It has been suggested that Vaudoir be merged into this article or section. ...


After the death of his brother in 1819, he also became the Jacobite pretender to the British thrones (as Victor I), although he, like his brother, did not make any public or private claims to this effect. 1819 common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Charles Edward Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie, wearing the Jacobite blue bonnet Jacobitism was (and, to a very limited extent, remains) the political movement dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland. ... A Pretender is a claimant to an abolished throne or to a throne already occupied by somebody else. ...


After the outbreak of the liberal revolution in his lands in 1821, he abdicated in favor of his brother, Charles Felix. Victor Emmanuel died in the castle of Moncalieri. He is buried in the Basilica of Superga. The coronation banquet for George IV 1821 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Look up abdication in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Charles Felix I of Sardinia (Carlo Felice Giuseppe Maria, April 6, 1765–April 27, 1831) was the Duke of Savoy, Piedmont, Aosta and King of Sardinia from 1821 to 1831. ... One of the towers of the castle. ... The Basilica of Superga is a church in the vicinity of Turin. ...


Family and children

On April 21, 1789, he married Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (b.1773-d.1832), daughter of Ferdinand, Duke of Modena (who was son of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor) and had seven children including: April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Francis I Silver coin of Francis I, dated 1754. ...

  1. Maria Beatrice Victoria (1792–1840), married Francis IV, Archduke of Austria and Duke of Modena
  2. Maria Adelaide (b.1794-d.1802)
  3. Charles Emmanuel (1796–1799) died of smallpox.
  4. A daughter (1800-1801)
  5. Maria Anna (1803–1884), married Ferdinand I of Austria
  6. Maria Teresa (b.1803-d.1879), married Charles II, Duke of Parma of Parma (b.1799-d.1883)
  7. Maria Christina of Savoy (1812–1836), married Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies

Maria Beatrice of Savoy Maria Beatrice Victoria Josephine of Savoy (December 6, 1792 - September 15, 1840) was the eldest daughter of King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia and Archduchess Maria Teresa of Austria-Este. ... 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Francis IV Este (Italian: Francesco IV dEste) (1779 - 1846) was Duke of Modena, Reggio, Mirandola (from 1815), Duke of Massa and Prince of Carrara (from 1829), royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, Cavaliere dellordine del Toson Doro. ... Modena (Mòdna in Modenese dialect) is a city and a province on the south side of the Po valley, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. ... Year 1796 (MDCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Maria Anna of Sardinia Maria Anna of Sardinia Maria Anna Carolina Pia (German: Maria Anna von Savoyen) (19 September 1803 – Prague, 4 May 1884) was Empress consort of Austria, Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia. ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Emperor Ferdinand Ferdinand I Karl Leopold Joseph Franz Marchlin Emperor of Austria King of Hungary and Bohemia (April 19, 1793 – June 29, 1875) succeeded his father (Franz II Holy Roman Emperor/Franz I of Austria) as Emperor and King in 1835 and was forced to abdicate in 1848. ... Charles Louis of Bourbon-Parma (Carlo Ludovico di Borbone Parma) (22 December 1799–16 April 1883) was King of Etruria (1803–1807), Duke of Lucca (1824–1847), and Duke of Parma (1847–1848). ... Maria Christina (Carlotta Giuseppina Gaetana Elisa) of Savoy (14 November 1812, Cagliari - 21 January 1836, Caserta) was the first Queen consort of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies. ... For the overture by Tchaikovsky, see 1812 Overture; For the wars, see War of 1812 (USA - United Kingdom) or Patriotic War of 1812 (France - Russia) For the Siberia Airlines plane crashed over the Black Sea on October 4, 2001, see Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 1812 was a leap year starting... Year 1836 (MDCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Ferdinand II (Ferdinando Carlo, January 12, 1810 – May 22, 1859) was the King of the Two Sicilies (Southern Italy) from 1830 until his death. ...

References

  • Segre, A. (1928). Vittorio Emanuele I. 

See also

Preceded by
Charles Emmanuel IV		 King of Sardinia
1802–1821		 Succeeded by
Charles Felix
Preceded by
Charles IV		 Jacobite succession
1819–1824		 Succeeded by
Mary III and II

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In 1734 King Charles Emmanuel III (1701–73) acquired Novara and Tortona for Sardinia and, in 1748, Vigevaresco.
Sardinia exercised vital leadership for Italians during the Risorgimento, the movement for Italian unity and independence.
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Sardinia, moreover, was abandoned to its fate by the Byzantines more than the peninsula, and consequently the tradition which dates in the sixth century the origin of the three (later four) judicatures, into which the island was later divided, may have a historical foundation.
The charter of Eleanora was adopted as a Constitution; and the King of Aragon swore in the presence of the Sardinian deputies to observe it.
Charles Emmanuel withdrew to Sardinia; and in 1802 abdicated in favour of his brother Victor Emmanuel I (1802-21), who in 1814 was returned to Turin and saw his dominions increased by the inclusion of Genoa.
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