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	Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Savoy was considered a valuable ally in both wars due to its geographical position, enabling a second front to be opened against France in the south.
		In the War of the Spanish Succession Savoy faired particularly badly against the larger French forces resulting in a siege of Turin in 1706 which was only relieved by the intervention of an army of the Holy Roman Empire under Prince Eugene of Savoy.
		Victor Amadeus II began a large scale persecution of the Vaudois (Piedmontese and Savoyard Protestants) in 1685.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_Amadeus_II_of_Savoy (581 words)

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		Savoy, Charles Emmanuel II (1634-1675) duke of Savoy in 1638-1675; son of Victor Amadeus II Savoy, Victor Amadeus II (1666-1732) duke of Savoy in 1675-1713, king of Sicily in 1713-1720, king of Sardinia in 1720-1730; father of Charles Emmanuel II Schopenhauer, Arthur
		Sforza, Francesco II (1492/1495-1535), duke of Milan in 1521-1524, 1525-1526, 1529-1535; prince of Pavia in 1530
		She was married to Francis II of France in 1558-1560, her cousin Lord Darnley in 1565-1567, and the Earl of Bothwell in 1567-1571, who was commonly regarded as Danley's murderer.
	www.italycyberguide.com /History/factspersons/s.htm (1128 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Savoy
		The oldest possessions of the line of Savoy were the counties of Maurienne (the upper valley of the River Arc), Savoy (the district between Arc, Isère, and the middle course of the Rhone), and also Belley, with Bugey as its chief town.
		Amadeus IX the Fortunate (1465-72) left the government to his wife Yolande, sister of the French king Louis XI, who was also regent for her minor son Philibert I (1372-82).
		Victor Amadeus II (1675-1730), son of Charles Emmanuel, refused in 1690 to bring an army to the aid of Louis XIV against the alliance between the emperor, England, Sweden, Spain, and the Netherlands; in return the French seized Savoy and Piedmont.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13492a.htm (1545 words)

	Humbert II of Savoy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the name of Humbert II of Savoy are known two famous members of the Savoy dynasty.
		The first was Humbert II the Fat, of whom this page is about, the other one is Humbert II King of Italy Il Re di Maggio.
		Humbert II, surnamed the Fat, was Count of Savoy from 1080 until his death in 1103.
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	Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg928 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Dirk II of HOLLAND was born 935 and died 988.
		Amadeus II of Savoy DE MAURIENNE [Parents] was born 1032.
		Humbert II the Fat of Savoy DE MAURIENNE was born 1062 and died 1103.
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	HISTORY OF THE ROYAL HOUSE OF SAVOY, KINGS OF ITALY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, became King of Sicily 1713 (by terms of the Treaty of Utrecht), but Sicily was returned to Austrian rule 1718 and then exchanged for the Kingdom of Sardinia 9 May 1720.
		Charles Emmanuel IV (d 6 Oct 1819) was deposed as ruler of Piedmont and Savoy 1797, abdicated as King of Sardinia at Naples 4 Jun 1802, but succeeded as primogeniture representative of the Stuart dynasty on the death of titular King Henry IX, Cardinal Duke of York, 13 Jul 1807.
		Victor Amadeus I was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano (1721-1778), grandfather of Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano (1770-1800), whose only son, Charles Albert (Carlo Alberto), Prince of Carignano, succeeded as King of Sardinia, etc, 27 Apr 1831.
	www.chivalricorders.org /royalty/gotha/savoyhis.htm (571 words)

	HENRIETTA, DUCHESS OF ORLEANS - LoveToKnow Article on HENRIETTA, DUCHESS OF ORLEANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After, the restoration of her brother Charles II., she returned to England with her mother, but a few months later she was again in Paris, where she was married to Philip, now duke of Orleans, on the 3Oth of March 1661.
		The duchess was very popular at the court of Louis XIV., and was on good terms with the grand monarch himself; she shared in the knowledge of state secrets, but was soon estranged from her husband, and at the best her conduct was very imprudent.
		According to legitimist principles, the descendants of Henrietta, through her daughter Marie of Savoy, are entitled to wear the British crown.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OR/ORLEANS_HENRIETTA_DUCHESS_OF.htm (1108 words)

	Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg929 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Amadeus II of Savoy DE MAURIENNE was born 1032 and died 1080.
		Eudes SAVOY was born 1002 and died 1060.
		Amadeus I of Savoy DE MAURIENNE died 1051.
	www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg929.htm (89 words)

	Thomas II of Savoy
		1259) was the regent of the County of Savoy when his nephew, Boniface, was fighting abroad.
		He was also the Count of Flanders (1237-1244 and a count in Piedmont (1244-1259).
		1282, pretender of Count of Savoy, married in 1274 to Guia of Burgundy, the step-daughter of Philip I of Savoy and had 5 children:
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	Francia Media: Lorraine & Burgundy
		Albert II The modern identity of Belgium was forged in the revolt of the Netherlands against Spain.
		The first Count of Savoy, Humbert White Hands, is sometimes said to be the grandson of Charles Constantine, Count of Vienne, who is said to be the son of the Emperor and King of Lower Burgundy Louis III, who is sometimes said to have married the daughter Anna of the Emperor Leo VI of Romania.
		The genealogy of the Dukes of Savoy is continued in the section on the Kings of Sardinia.
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	Henrietta Anne Stuart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Henrietta-Anne is best known through her correspondence with her brother King Charles II of England.
		On November 18, 1679, she married Charles II of Spain.
		On April 10, 1684 she married Victor Amadeus II of Savoy.
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	Victor Amadeus, II Biography / Biography of Victor Amadeus, II Biography Biography
		Victor Amadeus II (1666-1732) was Duke of Savoy, king of Sicily, and king of Sardinia.
		He was the son of Charles Emmanuel II, whom he succeeded as Duke of Savoy in 1675 upon the latter's death.
		Savoy would be a threat to France if it was occupied by any enemy of France's, and Louis wished to occupy Savoy himself as a first step toward conquering all of Italy.
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	AllRefer.com - Victor Amadeus II (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Victor Amadeus II[amudE´us] Pronunciation Key, 1666–1732, duke of Savoy (1675–1713), king of Sicily (1713–20), king of Sardinia (1720–30).
		The French occupied Savoy, but were obliged to lift the siege of Turin after Victor Amadeus and his cousin, Eugene of Savoy, had thoroughly defeated them in 1706.
		Victor Amadeus in 1720 abandoned his claim to Sicily in exchange for the island of Sardinia and became king of Sardinia.
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	Charles II of Savoy
		Charles II or Charles John Amadeus (Carlo Giovanni Amedeo in Italian) b.
		1496, was the Duke of Savoy from 1490 to 1496 but his mother Blanche of Montferrato[?] was the actual ruler as a regent.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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	artnet.com: Resource Library: Beaumont, Claudio Francesco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After a visit to Bologna in 1716, he was sent by Victor-Amadeus II of Savoy, King of Sicily, to study in Rome (1716–19), where he trained with Francesco Trevisani.
		Victor-Amadeus II recommended him to Nicolas Vleughels, the director of the Académie de France in Rome, and Beaumont was much influenced by the Roman–French style of Trevisani, Carle Vanloo and Charles-Joseph Natoire.
		Savoy, §II: (12) Charles-Emanuel III, 17th Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia
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	Kings_of_Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After the end of the kingdom, Henry II of Cyprus continued to use the title "King of Jerusalem." After his death the title was claimed by his direct heirs, the Kings of Cyprus.
		Pope Julius II is said to have recognized Louis XII of France as king of Naples and Jerusalem, desiring to oust the Spaniards.
		Charles II 1490–1496 On the death of Charles, the Duchy of Savoy passed to his heir-male Philip, and the Dukes of Savoy continued to claim Jerusalem.
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	Sardinia, kingdom of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		name given to the possessions of the house of Savoy (see Savoy, house of) in 1720, when the island of Sardinia was awarded (by the Treaty of London) to Duke Victor Amadeus II of Savoy to compensate him for the loss of Sicily to Austria.
		Besides Sardinia, the kingdom included Savoy, Piedmont, and Nice; Liguria, including Genoa, was added by the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
		After the annexation (1861) of the Two Sicilies, Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed king of Italy.
	www.bartleby.com /65/sa/Sardnkng.html (211 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Savoy-Piemont, 1730-1797
		Savoy's prime minister D'ORMEA, assuming that Britain would enter the war and that Prussia would sign a peace once her objective was achieved, convinced Charles Emmanuel III.
		Savoy, because of the early period in which these reforms were implemented, became one of Italy's most flourishing and modern regions.
		(1773-1796) in 1779 succeeded in having Savoy, as Diocesis of Chambery, being detached from the Diocesis of Grenoble.
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	Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		October 31 1732 was the Duke of Savoy (1675-1720, 1730-1732).
		Donna Maria Vittoria di Savoie, Marchesa di Susa.
		This page was last modified 19:51, 31 May 2005.
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	Shroud History
		He is succeeded by his son Duke Amadeus IX an inactive but devout prince who has a Cordelier as preceptor and who shares with his wife Duchess Yolande of France a particular devotion to the Shroud.
		Duke Philibert, Duchess Marguerite, Francois of Luxembourg, viscount of Martigues, husband of Louise of Savoy (grand-daughter of Duke Louis), together with nearly all the local clergy, attend the ceremony of translation during which Laurent Alamand, bishop of Grenoble, solemnly carries the Shroud in its silver-gilt case from Chambéry's Franciscan church to the Sainte-Chapelle.
		Savoy courtier Antoine de Lalaing records of the events of that day: "The day of the great and holy Friday, the Passion was preached in Monsignor's chapel by his confessor, the duke and duchess attending.
	www.shroud.com /history.htm (12615 words)

	Amadeus - Awesome movies, movie search engine, movie reviews and movie news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Amadeus A play and film written in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, Amadeus is loosely based on the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
		Amadeus tells young Mozart's story from the point of view of court composer Antonio Salieri, who is presented as a caricature of jealous mediocrity.
		1051 or 1056) was the count of savoy from the death of his father Umberto until his death, (1047 or 1048 to 1051 or 1056).
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	Sicilia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1127 Roger II, count of Sicily, was recognized duke of Apulia and Calabria, and in 1130 he assumed the title of king of Sicily.
		The domain of Roger II was sometimes called the Kingdom of the Due Sicilie, because the southern part of the Italian mainland was known as "Sicily on this side of Cape Faro."
		In 1734 the Bourbon Don Carlos, later Charles III, king of Spain, invaded Naples and Sicily, and in 1735 was crowned and recognized Charles IV, King of the Due Sicilie by the Treaty of Vienna.
	www.floria-publications.com /italy/regions_and_cities/sicilia.html (1968 words)

	Sicilian History
		ROGER II was recognized (1139) by Pope Innocent II as the first king of Sicily (1130-1154) and of the Norman territories in southern Italy.
		Tancred - Sicilian barons rebel and choose Tancred, a grandson of Roger II to be king of Sicily.
		Frederick II - Through the marriage of Constance, heiress of the last Norman king, to Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, Sicily passed in 1194 to the Hohenstaufen dynasty.
	www.dieli.net /SicilyPage/History/SicilianHist.html (2702 words)

	Italian States in the Seventeenth Century
		Divided by social conflict and disrupted by banditry and feuding in the early part of the century, it was controlled by a tiny elite of patrician families.
		A war to establish the right of succession was fought between Charles Emmanuel of Savoy (supported by the Habsburgs) and Carlo, Duke of Nevers (the claimant from a cadet branch of the Gonzaga family, supported by France).
		Ferdinand II was also a patron of the sciences, but his incompetent son, Cosimo III was a religious bigot.
	history.wisc.edu /sommerville/351/italian%20states.htm (1359 words)

	Treaties of Utrecht (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		France concluded treaties of peace at Utrecht with Britain, the Dutch republic, Prussia, Portugal, and Savoy.
		In the treaty with Savoy, France recognized Victor Amadeus II, duke of Savoy, as king of Sicily and that he should rule Sicily and Nice.
		On Aug. 13, 1713, the Spanish treaty with Savoy was concluded, ceding the former Spanish possession of Sicily to Victor Amadeus II as his share of the spoils of war.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/UtrechtTreaties/UtrechtTreaties.html (471 words)

	War and 18th Century Europe
		Augustus II - ruler of Saxony and King of Poland - died in 1733.
		The agreement was signed in September, in the town of Worms, on the Rhine River, and became known as the Treaty of Worms.
		Instead, King George II of Britain, who was concerned about his territory in Hanover, signed a defensive treaty with Frederick - the Treaty of Westminster - to discourage the French from attacking Hanover.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Clement XI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		During the conclave Charles II, the last of the Spanish Hapsburgs, had died childless, leaving his vast dominions a prey to French and Austrian ambition.
		Sicily was given to Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, with whom from the first days of his pontificate Clement was involved in quarrels on the subjects of ecclesiastical immunities and appointments to vacant benefices.
		He gave a generous hospitality to the exiled son of James II of England, James Edward Stuart, and helped him to obtain the hand of Clementina, John Sobieski's accomplished granddaughter, mother of Charles Edward.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04029a.htm (1850 words)

	FIFTEENTH GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		She died in Sardinia - wife of Victor Amadeus II.
		She was married to Duke Victor Amadeus II of SAVOY (son of Duke Charles Emmanuel II of SAVOY) about 1685.
		Duke Victor Amadeus II of SAVOY was born in 1666 in Savoy - son of Charles Emmanuel II.
	home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d10602.htm (89 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (T-V)
		Thomas Betterton was an English actor during the reign of Charles II.
		Victor Amadeus II was Duke of Savoy and the first King of Sardinia.
		Victor Emmanuel II was King of Sardinia and of Italy.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/CE.HTM (7180 words)

	Royalty.nu - The History of Italy - Italian Royalty
		War, Diplomacy and the Rise of Savoy, 1690-1720 by Christopher Storrs deals with the career of Victor Amadeus II, duke of Savoy and king of Sicily and Sardinia.
		Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler Between East and West by Hubert Houben.
		The Cultures of His Kingdom: Roger II and the Cappella Palatina in Palermo by William Tronzo is about a 12th century king of Sicily and a royal chapel constructed during his reign which survives to this day.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/Italy.html (1920 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Juvarra, Filippo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His work is characterized by clarity and directness, his architectural conceptions defined by a drastically reduced structure and complex conglomerate spaces; his surfaces were adorned with elaborate decorative systems the originality of which pointed the way to a light-hearted Rococo.
		Savoy, §II: (9) Mary Joanna, Duchess and Regent of
		Savoy, §II: (11) Victor-Amadeus II, King of Sardinia, 15th Duke of Savoy and King of Sicily
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