Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta

Infobox Italian Royalty|prince
name =Prince Emanuele Filiberto
title =Duke of Aosta


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predecessor = Amedeo, 1st Duke
successor = Amedeo, 3rd Duke
succession = Duke of Aosta
full name =Emanuele Filiberto Vittorio Eugenio Alberto Genova Guiseppe Maria
titles = "HRH" The Duke of Aosta
"HRH" The Crown Prince of Spain
"HRH" Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy
spouse = Princess Hélène of Orléans
issue = Amedeo, 3rd Duke of Aosta
Aimone, 4th Duke of Aosta
royal house =House of Savoy
father =Amadeo I of Spain
mother =Maria Vittoria del Pozzo della Cisterna
date of birth =birth date|1869|01|13
place of birth =Genoa
date of death =death date and age|1931|07|04|1869|01|13
place of death =Turin|Infobox Military Person
name=Emanuel Filibert of Aosta
lived=birth date|1869|01|13 – death date and age|1931|07|04|1869|01|13


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branch=Army
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rank=Marshal of Italy
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commands=Italian Third Army
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Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, 2nd Duke of Aosta (13 January, 1869 – July 4, 1931) was a member of House of Savoy, former Crown Prince of Spain and a cousin of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.

Biography

He was born in Genoa the eldest son of Prince Amadeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta and his first wife Maria Vittoria del Pozzo della Cisterna. In 1870 his father was elected king of Spain and Emanuele Filiberto became the Crown Prince of Spain. His time as heir apparent would be short lived as his father abdicated and returned to Italy in 1873 after three years on the throne. In 1890 he succeeded to the title Duke of Aosta

During the First World War the Duke of Aosta commanded the Italian Third Army, and following the war he was promoted to the rank of Marshal of Italy by Benito Mussolini in 1926. Prince Emanuele Filiberto is buried in the cemetery of Redipuglia, together with thousands of soldiers of the never-defeated Third Army.

Family and children

He was married to Princess Hélène of Orléans (1871 - 1951), daughter of Prince Philippe of Orléans and the Infanta Maria Isabel of Spain, and had two sons:
* Amedeo, 3rd Duke of Aosta (October 21, 1898 - March 3, 1942)
* Aimone, 4th Duke of Aosta who briefly ruled as King Tomislav II of Croatia. (9 March, 1900 - 29 January, 1948)

Ancestry

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1= 1. Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta
2= 2. Amadeo I of Spain
3= 3. Maria Vittoria del Pozzo della Cisterna
4= 4. Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
5= 5. Maria Adelaide of Austria
6= 6. Carlo Emanuele dal Pozzo, Prince della Cisterna
7= 7. Louise Caroline Ghislaine, Countess of Merode
8= 8. Charles Albert of Sardinia
9= 9. Maria Theresa of Tuscany
10= 10. Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria
11= 11. Princess Elisabeth of Savoy-Carignan
12= 12. Giuseppe Alfonso dal Pozzo, 4th Prince della Cisterna
13= 13. Marie Anne Theodore des Balbes de Berton
14= 14. Werner, Count of Merode
15= 15. Countess Victoire de Spangen d'Uyternesse
16= 16. Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignan
17= 17. Princess Maria Christina of Saxony
18= 18. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany
19= 19. Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily
20= 20. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
21= 21. Maria Louisa of Spain
22= 22. Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignan (= 16)
23= 23. Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (= 17)
24= 24. Giuseppe Amedeo Tommaso dal Pozzo, Prince della Cisterna e Belriguardo
25= 25. Anna Gabriella Enrichetta Caresana
26=
27=
28= 28. Guillaume de Merode, Count of Merode-Westerloo
29= 29. Marie d'Ongnies, Princess of Grimberghe
30= 30. Count François de Spangen d'Uyternesse
31= 31. Louise de Flaveauahnentafel bottom

ources

*"Encyclopædia Britannica" (1950)

External links

* [http://www.chivalricorders.org/royalty/gotha/italygen.htm Genealogy of the Royal House of Italy]
* [http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/aosta.htm Biography of the Duke of Aosta]