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 Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Emmanuel III (April 27, 1701 - February 20, 1773) was the Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia from 1730 to 1773.
A competent soldier-king, he gained territory for himself by fighting on the French side in the War of the Polish Succession and then on the Austrian side in the War of the Austrian Succession.
He married his niece Maria Anna, Princess of Savoy (b.1757-d1824) and daughter of Victor Amadeus III of Savoy.
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 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.
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 All words on Victor Amadeus II of Savoy
October 31 1732 was the Duke of Savoy (1675-1720, 1730-1732), first king of Sardinia 1720-1730 and king of Sicily 1713-1718.
Victor Amadeus (Vittorio Amedeo) d.1715, prince of Piedmont ::4.
Victor Amadeus II Victor Amadeus II Victor Amadeus II de:Vittorio Amadeo II.
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 Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Victor Amadeus III (Vittorio Amedeo III in Italian b.
October 16 1796) was the Duke of Savoy from 1773 to 1796 (see below for all titles.)
Marie Anne (b.1757-d.1824), married her uncle Benedetto, Prince of Savoy, Duke of Chablais (b.1741-d.1808).
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 Charles X of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
He married, the daughter of Victor Amadeus III of Savoy, on November 16, 1773.
Charles later emigrated to Britain, where George III allowed him to live in Holyrood House, a royal palace in Edinburgh.
He was not comfortable with the ultra-Protestant environment of the city and spent most of his time behind the palace walls, although he was by no means rude to the locals.
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 AllRefer.com - Victor Amadeus III (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Victor Amadeus III 1726–96, king of Sardinia (1773–96), son and successor of Charles Emmanuel III.
He declared war on France in 1792 after French Revolutionary troops had occupied Savoy and Nice.
His son, Charles Emmanuel IV, succeeded him (see Savoy, house of).
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 Victor Amadeus III --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Victor Amadeus, the son of Charles Emmanuel III, was incapable and extravagant, and he chose equally incapable ministers.
The 15th-century castle, built by Princess Yolanda of Savoy, was a favourite residence of the king of Sardinia and Italy, Victor Emmanuel II; Victor Emmanuel I and Victor Amadeus III died in it.
The great French novelist and poet Victor Hugo created two of the most famous characters in literature—Jean Valjean, the ex-convict hero of ‘Les Misérables', and the hunchback Quasimodo in ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame'.
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 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.
It is reputed that there was a real antipathy between Mozart and Salieri, and that Mozart did at one point accuse Salieri of attempting to poison him.
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 FIFTEENTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
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.
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 SAVOY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
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 Victor Emmanuel III
Victor Emmanuel III, 1869–1947, king of Italy (1900–1946), emperor of Ethiopia (1936–43), king of Albania (1939–43), son and successor of Humbert I. In 1896 he married Princess Helena of Montenegro.
Aosta, Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, duke of - Aosta, Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, duke of, 1869–1931, Italian general; son of King Amadeus...
Le Prince Victor Emmanuel de Savoie, et son fils Emmanuel Philibert, en octobre à Genève Le prince Victor Emmanuel de Savo.
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 Victor Emmanuel III --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Backed by the Allies, however, Victor Emmanuel III retained his sovereignty until the liberation of Rome in 1944.
(1904–83) was born at Racconigi Castle, near Turin, on Sept. 15, 1904, the son of Victor Emmanuel III and Queen Elena.
(1844–1900) was born in Turin in northern Italy on March 14, 1844, the son of King Victor Emmanuel II and his consort, Adelaide, archduchess of Austria.
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Victor Amadeus II was compelled for a time to submit to various French demands but finally joined the Grand Alliance against France.
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He explored parts of what are now Newfoundland starting on May 10 of that year and the Canadian Maritimes and where he learned of a river further west the St. Lawrence River that he believed might be the much searched-for northwest passage.
He was probably born in Weert, Belgium Weert, near Antwerp, and went to live in Italy when he was still a child.
The twin battles of Jena and Auerstädt were fought on October 14, 1806 near Naumburg in today s Germany, between the forces of Napoleon I of France and Frederick William III of Prussia.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Victor Emmanuel III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
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Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947), king of Italy (1900-1946) and self-styled emperor of Ethiopia (1936-1944) and king of Albania (1939-1944), born in...
Victor Emmanuel I (1759-1824), king of Sardinia (1802-1821), born in Turin, Italy.
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 Treaty of Utrecht (1713) - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Emperor received the Spanish Netherlands, the Duchy of Milan, Naples, and Sardinia.
The Duke of Savoy received Sicily and some strips of land in Lombardy.
The British received Gibraltar and Minorca, which they had captured during the war.
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Charles's major foreign ally at this time was Catherine the Great, the Empress of Russia.
Charles later emigrated to Britain, where George III allowed him to live in Holyroodhouse Palace in Edinburgh.
He was not comfortable with the ultra-Protestant environment of the city and spent most of his time behind the palace walls.
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Duke Charles Emmanuel III of SAVOY was born in 1701 in Savoy - son of Victor II.
He died in 1773 in Savoy - reign from 1732.
Duke Charles Emmanuel III of SAVOY had the following children:
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Victor III
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Victor III (1027-1087), pope (1086-1087), noted for his brilliant tenure as abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino.
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 MSN Encarta - Victor Emmanuel I
Victor Emmanuel I (1759-1824), king of Sardinia (1802-21), born in Turin, Italy.
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 The French Restoration 1814 - 1848
Louis-Philippe ascended to the throne during the July Revolution; some historians treat the resulting July Monarchy as a separate period in French history.
As Comte d'Artois he headed the reactionary faction at the court of Louis XVI.
Within a year, he named himself Emperor Napoleon III and resurrected the concept of a "Napoleonic Empire".
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 Victor Amadeus III
His son, Charles Emmanuel IV, succeeded him (see
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