Amadeo I of Spain

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Amadeo I of Spain

madeo (Italian Amedeo, sometimes anglicized as Amadeus) (May 30, 1845 – January 18, 1890) was the only King of Spain

List of Spanish monarchs

This is a list of Spanish monarchs?that is, rulers of the country of Spain in the modern sense of the word. The forerunners of the Spanish throne, as well as of the List of Portuguese monarchs, were the following:...
from the House of Savoy

House of Savoy

The House of Savoy was formed in the early eleventh century in the historical Savoy region. Through gradual expansion, it grew from ruling a small county in that region to eventually rule the Kingdom of Italy until the end of the Second World War....
. He was the second son of King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy , was the Monarch of Piedmont, Savoy, and Sardinia from 1849 to 1861. On February 18, 1861, he assumed the title King of Italy to become the first king of a Italian unification, a title he held until his death in 1878....
and was known for most of his life as Duke of Aosta, but served briefly as King of Spain from 1870 to 1873.

Granted the hereditary title Duke of Aosta

Duke of Aosta

In the mid-13th century the Hohenstaufen Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor made the Aosta Valley a duchy; its arms were carried in the Savoia coat-of-arms until the reunification of Italy, 1870....
in the year of his birth, he founded the Aosta branch of Italy's royal House of Savoy

House of Savoy

Patrilineality

Patrilineality is a system in which one belongs to one's father's lineage; it generally involves the inheritance of property, names or titles through the male line as well....
descent to the branch descended from King Umberto I

Umberto I of Italy

Umberto I, King of Italy or Humbert I of Kingdom of Italy , English: Humbert Ranier Charles Emmanuel John Mary Ferdinand Eugene of Savoy , nicknamed the Good , was the King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his death....
that reigned until 1946, but senior to the branch of the Dukes of Genoa.

ce Amedeo of Savoy was born in Turin

Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
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- |} Amadeo (Italian Amedeo, sometimes anglicized as Amadeus) (May 30, 1845 – January 18, 1890) was the only King of Spain

List of Spanish monarchs

House of Savoy

Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

Duke of Aosta

House of Savoy

Patrilineality

Umberto I of Italy

Background

Prince Amedeo of Savoy was born in Turin

Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. He was the second son of Victor Emmanuel II

Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

Savoy

Savoy is a region of Europe on the western flank of the Alps that emerged following the collapse of the Frankish Empire Kingdom of Burgundy. Installed by Rudolph III, King of Burgundy, officially in 1003, the House of Savoy became the longest surviving royal house in Europe....
, Sardinia

Sardinia

Sardinia is the Mediterranean islands#By area island in the Mediterranean Sea . The area of Sardinia is . The island is surrounded by the France island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Tunisia and the Balearic Islands....
and, later, first King of Italy

Kingdom of Italy

There have been several distinct entities known as the Kingdom of Italy. Italy under the rule of Odoacer from 476 to 493 is often called the kingdom of Italy, since it encompassed the Italia and Odoacer is periodically styled rex ....
) and of Archduchess Maria Adelaide of Austria

Maria Adelaide of Austria

Maria Adelaide was the first wife of Vittorio Emanuele II and as such became Queen of Sardinia from 1849 until her death.She was born in Milan to Archduke Rainer of Austria, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, and to the Princess Elisabeth of Savoy-Carignano, sister of Vittorio Emanuele?s father King of Sardinia Carlo Alberto....
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In 1867 his father yielded to the entreaties of parliamentary deputy Francisco Cassins, and on May 30 of that year, Amedeo was married to Don

Don (honorific)

Don, from Latin Dominus , is a Spanish language , Portuguese language , and Italian language honorific. The female version is Do?a , Dona ...
na Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Princess della Cisterna

Maria Vittoria del Pozzo della Cisterna

Maria Vittoria Carlotta Enrichetta del Pozzo della Cisterna was the daughter of Charles Emmanuel dal Pozzo dalla Cisterna and his wife, Louise Caroline Ghislaine, Countess of House of Merode....
(b. August 9, 1847 - d. November 8, 1876). The king initially opposed the match on the grounds that her family was of insufficient rank, as well as his hopes for his son's marriage to a German princess.

Despite her princely title, donna Maria Vittoria was not of royal birth, belonging rather to the Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,399 km? and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital is Turin. The main local dialect is Piedmontese....
ese nobility. She was, however, the sole heiress of her father's vast fortune, which subsequent Dukes of Aosta inherited, thereby obtaining wealth independent of their dynastic appanage

Appanage

An apanage or appanage is the grant of an estate, titles, offices, or other things of value to the younger male children of a sovereign, who under the system of primogeniture would otherwise have no inheritance....
and allowances from Italy's kings. Maria Vittoria's mother, Countess Louise de Mérode, granddaughter of the Prince de Rubempré and of the Princess van Grimberghe, belonged to one of Belgium

Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
's premier noble houses, and had married the Principe della Cisterna in 1846 in a double wedding with her younger sister Antoinette

Antoinette de Mérode-Westerloo

Antoinette de M?rode-Westerloo , Princess of Monaco, was born in Brussels as the daughter of Count House of Merode and his spouse Victoire de Spangen-d'Uyternesse ....
, who married Charles III, the reigning Prince of Monaco

Prince of Monaco

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Amedeo and Maria Vittoria had three children:

Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta
Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta

Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, 2nd Duke of Aosta was a member of House of Savoy, former Crown Prince of Spain and a cousin of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy....
(1869-1931), Marshal of Italy
Vittorio Emanuele, Count of Turin
Vittorio Emanuele, Count of Turin

Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, Infante of Spain, Count of Turin was a grandchild of King Victor Emmanuel II and a member of the House of Savoy....
(1870-1946)
Luigi, Duke of Abruzzi (1873-1933), mountaineer and explorer.

Yet by March or 1870, the Duchess found herself appealing to the King to remonstrate with his son for marital infidelities that caused her hurt and embarrassment. But the King wrote in reply that, while understanding her feelings, he considered that she had no right to dictate her husband's behavior and that her jealousy was unbecoming.