Victor-Amédée III of Sardinia

Victor-Amédée III (Italian Vittorio Amedeo III), born the June 26th 1726, dead the October 16th 1796), was king de Sardaigne, prince de Piémont and duke of Savoy of 1773 with 1796. It was wire of Charles-Emmanuel III, king de Sardaigne, prince de Piémont and duke of Savoy, and Christine de Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenbourg.

Biography

It had fought with his father with Coni and Bassignano. It succeeded to him in 1773 and devoted the first years of its reign to the interior administration of its states: it abolishes the rights of toll in Savoy, raised the dams of Arve and of the Rhone, the Academy of Science of Turin founded, secularized several abbeys and organized its army on the model of the Prussia.

Adversary of the French revolution (the two brothers of Louis XVI counted among its sons-in-law), it opened its states with the Émigrés, refused to receive the embassy of the French Republic and supported against it a war which he lost. The French removed the county of Nice and occupied Piedmont, and it was constrained to sign with Bonaparte the treaty of Paris (May 15th 1796) which removed several cities to him. He survived only five months this defeat.

Marriage and children

Victor-Amédée married Marie Antoinette of Bourbon (1729 - 1785), plus young girl of Philippe V of Spain with which it had:

Charles Emmanuel IV (1751 - 1819), married to Clotilde of France, sister of Louis XVI
Marie Elisabeth Charlotte, (1752 - 1753)
Marie Joséphine Louise (1753 - 1810), married to Louis XVIII of France
Amédée Alexandre, duke of Montferrat. (1754 - 1755)
Marie-Therese (1756 - 1805), married to Charles X of France
Marie Anne (1757 - 1824), married to her uncle Benoît of Savoy, duke of Chablais (1741 - 1808)
Victor-Emmanuel Ier (1759 - 1824)
Marie Christine Josephine (1760 - 1768)
Maurice Joseph Marie, duke of Montferrat, (1762 - 1799)
Caroline of Savoy (1764-1782), she married Antoine Ier of Saxony
Charles-Felix (1765 - 1831)
Joseph Benoît (1766 - 1802), count of Maurienne (1796) and of Asti (1796 - 1802).

These six brothers (thus five lived and three followed one another on the throne) constitutes the second fradlansa of the Maison of Savoy, indicated thus by a word Piémontais meaning “phratry”. Victor-Amédée III proceeded to the one of these cross marriages if running at the time, with France by marrying two of his daughters with two brothers, the futures Louis XVIII and Charles X, by taking care that oldest of the two sisters marries oldest of the two brothers.

Titles

Victor-Amédée III, by the grace of God, king de Sardaigne, of Cyprus and of Jerusalem; duke of Savoy, the Montferrat, the Chablais, Aoste and the Genevese; prince de Piémont and of Oneille; Marquis d' Italie, of Saluces, Suse, Ivrée, Ceva, the Maro, Oristano, Sezana; Count of Maurienne, of Geneva, Nice, Tightens, of Asti, Alexandria and the Goceano; Baron of Vaud and the Faucigny; Lord of Verceil, Pignerol, the Tarentaise, Lumellino, the Valley of Sesia; Prince and perpetual Vicar of the Roman Holy roman Empire in Italy.

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