Victor Amadeus, Prince of Piedmont
| Victor Amadeus | |
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Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy | |
| Mother | Anne Marie d'Orléans |
Victor Amadeus of Savoy (Vittorio Amedeo Filippo Giuseppe;
Biography
The Prince of Piedmont was born in Turin on 6 May 1699.
From birth he was styled as the Prince of Piedmont, the typical style for the
In 1713, at the end of the
Victor Amadeus died in Turin on 22 March 1715 having caught smallpox. He was buried at the Turin Cathedral and later moved to the Basilica of Superga outside Turin. His body is located in the Sala degli Infanti (Hall of the Infantes [children]).[8] He was succeeded as Prince of Piedmont by his younger brother, Charles Emmanuel.
Ancestry
| Ancestors of Victor Amadeus, Prince of Piedmont Princess Henrietta of England | | ||||||||||||
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| 15. Princess Henrietta Maria of France | |||||||||||||
References
- ^ Marek, Miroslav. "Complete Genealogy of the House of Savoy". genealogy.euweb.cz. Retrieved 19 June 2014.[self-published source]
- ^ Tettoni (1868), p. 36
- ^ a b Symcox (1983), p. 73
- ^ a b Storrs (1999), p. 199
- ^ Williams (1909), p. 326
- ^ Symcox (1983), p. 176
- ^ Armstrong (1892), p. 7
- ^ Symcox (1983), p. 227
- ^ Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 24.
Sources
- Storrs, Christopher (1999). War, diplomacy and the rise of Savoy, 1690-1720 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-55146-3.
- Symcox, Geoffrey (1983). Victor Amadeus II : absolution in the Savoyard State 1675-1730. Berkeley, u.a.: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-04974-1.
- Williams, Hugh Noel (1909). A Rose of Savoy: Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, Duchesse de Bourgogne, Mother of Louis XV. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- Tettoni, Leone (1868). Le illustri alleanze della real casa di Savoia (in Italian).
- Armstrong, Edward (1892). Elisabeth Farnes: The Termagant of Spain. Longmans, Green, and Company.
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