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  HOUSE OF SAVOY - LoveToKnow Article on HOUSE OF SAVOY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
After the collapse of that monarchy its territories passed to the German kings, and Savoy was divided between the counts of Provence, of Albon, of Gex, of Bresse, of the Genevois, of Maurienne, the lords of Habsburg, of Zahringen, andc., and several prelates.
Lake of Geneva, and in 1024 of the Val dAosta on the eastern slope of the Western Alps.
Victor Emmanuel I. (1802 1820) remained in Sardinia until by the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna (June 9, 1815) his dominions were restored to him, with the addition of Genoa.
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 Articles - Victor Emmanuel, Prince of Naples   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Victor Emmanuel was born February 12, 1937 in Naples to Umberto II, the last king of Italy and princess Marie José of Belgium.
Victor Emmanuel and his family currently reside in Geneva, Switzerland, where the office of the head of the house of Savoy is situated.
Prince Emanuele Filiberto is the heir-apparent of the house of Savoy.
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 Victor Emmanuel III of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Victor Emmanuel III ( Italian Vittorio Emanuele III November 11, 1869 - December 28, 1947), nicknamed the Soldier, was the King of Italy ( July 29, 1900 - May 9, 1946), Emperor of Ethiopia ( 1936 - 1943) and King of Albania ( 1939 - 1943).
Victor Emmanuel III's position as Emperor of Ethiopia was not universally accepted, as Italy had overthrown the native Emperor, Haile Selassie.
Defenders of Victor Emmanuel have suggested that his decision not to oppose Mussolini's rise to power was based on the consideration of the economical damages caused by the constant collapsing of earlier governments, Mussolini offering a stability that the Italian Kingdom craved.
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 The Titles of the European Rulers
Philip-Maria Visconti of Milan ceded Verceil to the Duke of Savoy (1428).
The Duke of Savoy ceded Fribourg to Berne (1477).
Duke of Savoy, of Montferrat, of Aoste, of Chablais, of Genevois; and of Plaisance;
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 Victor Emmanuel II
The remainder of Victor Emmanuel's reign was spent in the consolidation of the new kingdom.
Savoy, house of: The Kingdom of Italy - The Kingdom of Italy In Charles Albert's reign the house of Savoy became the center of the...
Amadeus - Amadeus, 1845–90, king of Spain (1870–73), duke of Aosta, son of Victor Emmanuel II of...
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 Victor Emmanuel II of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor Emmanuel II ( Italian : Vittorio Emanuele II ; March 14, 1820 – January 9, 1878) was the King of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia from 1849 – 1861.
Charles Albert abdicated and Victor Emmanuel became king of Sardinia–Piedmont on March 24, 1849.
Under his command, and with the skillful action of his minister, Count Cavour, the Kingdom of Sadinia grew to include whole Italy (1860 – 1870), and thus Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy became Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
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 HISTORY OF THE ROYAL HOUSE OF SAVOY, KINGS OF ITALY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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.
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 Victor Emmanuel III of Italy: Information From Answers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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.
Victor Emmanuel III ( Italian : Vittorio Emanuele III) ( November 11, 1869 – December 28, 1947), nicknamed "The Soldier", was the King of Italy ( July 29, 1900 – May 9, 1946), and claimed the titles Emperor of Ethiopia ( 1936 - 1943) and King of Albania ( 1939 - 1943).
Victor Emmanuel was the only child of Umberto I of Italy and Margherita Teresa Giovanna, Princess of Savoy.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Victor Emmanuel I
Victor Emmanuel I (1759-1824), king of Sardinia (1802-21), born in Turin, Italy.
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...
Italy: assassination of Humbert I and ascension of Victor Emmanuel III
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 Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
The second son of King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel was known from birth as the Duke of Aosta.
Charles Emmanuel ( 1796 – 1799) died of smallpox.
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 Savoie Victor-E. Switzerland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Born in 1937, Victor Emmanuel of Savoy is the successor to Humbert II, King of Italy, and Marie José, Queen of Italy and Royal Princess of Belgium.
Her son Victor Emmanuel married Marina Doria, the daughter of a rich Swiss industrialist, and they settled in the chic suburb of Geneva.
Victor Emmanuel of Savoy has not yet been able to leave his golden exile on the shores of Lake Geneva.
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 Savoy - History
Savoy became a powerful mid european state with it’s power based on it’s control of the alpine passes and roads which crossed the area.
The Senate of Savoy is sovereign: the first president (chosen by the Prince from amongst the senators) governed the duchy in the absence of the Prince's representative.
In fact the Duke of Savoy was not particularly concerned whether he acquired Sicily or Sardinia, the crests of both islands were embellished with crowns indicating that they were kingdoms in their own right and henceforth the Duke was entitled to take the title of King.
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 SEVENTEENTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
King Victor Amadeus III of SARDINIA was born in 1726 in Savoy.
Carlo Felice of SARDINIA Duke of Savoy was born in 1756 in Sardinia - son of Victor Amadeus III.
Victor Emmanuel I of SARDINIA Duke of Aosta and Savoy.
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 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Long road home for Italy's royals
But King Victor Emmanuel's wartime ties with dictator Benito Mussolini, and his 1943 decision to flee to Brindisi as German troops turned against their former Italian allies, proved too much for the public to stomach.
Victor Emmanuel created his own flurries of media excitement, once for playing down the significance of the anti-Jewish laws signed by his father - for which he later apologised, and once for allegedly shooting a German tourist on his yacht - for which he was cleared of manslaughter.
Emmanuel Filiberto's publicly-stated dreams of eating his pizza in Naples remain to be fulfilled - but the family has at least reached the end of the long road home.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2601321.stm   (656 words)

  
 Italian Royal Family
Victor was King of Sardinia and became King of the united Italy on 17 March 1861.
Victor Emmanuel of Savoy (Prince of Naples and Duke of Savoy)
Victor Emmanuel made his first visit to Italy on 23 December 2002 since his family were forced into exile in 1946.
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 Albanian monarchs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Victor Emmanuel III (Italian language: Vittorio Emanuele III) (November 11, 1869 - December 28, 1947), nicknamed The Soldier, was the Monarch of Italy (July 29, 1900 - May 9, 1946), and claimed the titles Emperor of Ethiopia (1936 - 1943) and King of Albania (1939 - 1943).
Victor Emmanuel was the son of Umberto I of Italy and Margherita Teresa Giovanna, princess of Savoy.
Victor Emmanuel went to exile to Egypt and died there in 1947.
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 Encyclopedia: Victor Emmanuel II of Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The House of Savoy was a dynasty of nobles who traditionally had their domain in Savoy, a region between Piedmont, Italy, France and French-speaking Switzerland.
Victor Emmanuel III (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele III) (November 11, 1869 – December 28, 1947), nicknamed The Soldier, was the King of Italy (July 29, 1900 – May 9, 1946), and claimed the titles Emperor of Ethiopia (1936 - 1943) and King of Albania (1939 - 1943).
Charles Albert (October 2, 1798–July 28, 1849) was the Duke of Savoy, Piedmont, Aosta and King of Sardinia from 1831 to 1849.
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 Knowledge King - Jacobitism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In gratitude he bequeathed the remaining crown jewels of James VII and II to the Prince of Wales, the future George IV, although he never actually surrendered his claims to the throne.
Charles IV (ex-King Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy and Sardinia ( July 13, 1807 - October 6, 1819), who was descended from the youngest daughter of Charles I.
Victor (King Victor Emmanuel I of Savoy and Sardinia) ( October 6, 1819 - January 10, 1824), his brother.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sardinia
Charles Emmanuel to conquer the Milanese allied himself with France and Spain, in the War of the Polish Succession; he was frequently victorious but only obtained the region on the right of the Ticino (1738).
Victor Amadeus 111 (1773-96), for having crushed the nationalist movement in Savoy (1791) with excessive severity, was overthrown by the revolutionary army which captured Savoy and Nizza.
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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 Prince Victor
Prince Victor was therefore the grandson of two Kings, Jerôme King of Westphalia and Victor-Emmanuel, King of Italy from 1861 onwards.
In Paris there are papers at the Archives Nationales (most of Prince Victor's correspondence, his personal papers and propaganda photos), and at the Archives de la Préfecture de Police, with police reports for the years 1884-1901 (as pretender to the imperial throne, Prince Victor was kept under permanent surveillance).
Her aim is to study Prince Victor with reference to his family interests, using archives to which she has access and which are at present unpublished.
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 boys clothing: European royalty--Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Savoy lost its Swiss possessions in 1536 and the French King Francis I seized the rest of the duchy.
Victor Emmanuel II (1820-78), King of Sardinia (1849-61), was the first king of a united Italy (1861-78).
Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947) was the grandson of Victor Emmanuel II.
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 AllRefer.com - Victor Emmanuel II (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Victor Emmanuel II 1820–78, king of Sardinia (1849–61) and first king of united Italy (1861–78).
After the battle of Solferino, France signed a separate armistice with Austria at Villafranca di Verona ; Victor Emmanuel was not consulted, but the terms were ratified in the Treaty of ZUrich.
Siding (1866) with Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War, Victor Emmanuel was awarded Venetia in the peace settlement.
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 HEARING POSTPONED IN THE CASE OF VICTOR-EMMANUEL OF SAVOY v. ITALY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Victor-Emmanuel of Savoy is the son of Umberto II, the last king of Italy.
According to the first paragraph of Article XIII of the transitional and final provisions of the Constitution, "members and descendants of the House of Savoy shall have no voting rights and shall not be entitled to hold public office or to stand for election".
The second paragraph stipulates that "former Kings of the House of Savoy, their spouses and male descendants are banned from entering and staying on Italian territory".
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 AllRefer.com - Victor Emmanuel I (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Victor Emmanuel I 1759–1824, king of Sardinia (1802–21).
His brother and predecessor, Charles Emmanuel IV, lost (1798) all his territories except the island of Sardinia to France in the French Revolutionary Wars.
Victor Emmanuel accompanied his brother to Sardinia and succeeded him on his abdication (1802).
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 Jacobitism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following the death of Henry in 1807, the Jacobite claims passed to those excluded by the Act of Settlement : initially the House of Savoy, and then, through a daughter, to the House of Bavaria.
Charles IV (ex-King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia ( July 13, 1807 – October 6, 1819), who was descended from the youngest daughter of Charles I).
Victor (King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia) ( October 6, 1819 – January 10, 1824), his brother.
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11) Aosta, Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, duke of.
In the Italian War of 1859, in which he faced Napoleon III and Victor Emmanuel, he lost Lombardy to Sardinia by the Treaty of Villafranca...
The Italian nationalists were eager for Rome and the Papal States, and in 1860 Victor Emmanuel II seized all but Rome and its neighborhood.
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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 pape reçoit le prince Victor Emmanuel, sa femme et son fils, lundi au Vatican Une visite-éclair pour une audience chez.
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 Victor Emmanuel III of Italy Information - TextSheet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Victor Emmanuel III ( Italian Vittorio Emanuele III November 11, 1869 - December 28, 1947), nicknamed the Soldier, was the King of Italy ( July 29, 1900 - May 9, 1946), Emperor of Ethiopia ( 1936 - 1946) and King of Albania ( 1939 - 1946).
What is not in doubt, however, is that fascism offered a political stability that appealed to a broad mass of Italian life, not least the Roman Catholic Church which in the Lateran Treaty was willing to openly negotiate with Italy's fascist government.
Many jewish officers suicided, so to die in the uniform before being dismissed, and this caused the army to lose the special loyalty to the Quirinale.
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