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Amadeo of Spain

Amadeo I
Duke of Aosta
Amadeo king of Spain.jpg
King of Spain (more...)
Reign 16 November 1870 – 11 February 1873
Predecessor Isabella II
as Queen of Spain
Francisco Serrano
as Regent of Spain
Successor Estanislao Figueras
as President of the Republic
Alfonso XII
as King of Spain
Prime Ministers
Born (1845-05-30)30 May 1845
Royal Palace, Turin, Sardinia
Died 18 January 1890(1890-01-18) (aged 44)
Royal Palace, Turin, Italy
Burial Basilica of Superga, Italy
Spouse Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo
Maria Letizia Bonaparte
Issue Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta
Prince Vittorio Emanuele, Count of Turin
Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi
Prince Umberto, Count of Salemi
Full name
Italian: Amedeo Ferdinando Maria di Savoia
House Savoy
Father Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
Mother Adelaide of Austria
Religion Roman Catholicism
Full name
Italian: Amedeo Ferdinando Maria di Savoia
Royal styles of
Amadeo I of Spain
Coat of Arms of King Amadeo of Spain (1871-1873).svg
Reference style His Majesty
Spoken style Your Majesty
Alternative style Sir

Amadeo I (Italian Amedeo, sometimes anglicized as Amadeus) (30 May 1845 – 18 January 1890) was the only King of Spain from the House of Savoy. He was the second son of King Vittorio Emanuele II of Italy and was known for most of his life as the Duke of Aosta, but reigned briefly as King of Spain from 1870 to 1873.

He was elected by the Cortes as Spain's monarch in 1870, following the deposition of Isabella II, and sworn in the following year. Amadeo's reign was fraught with growing republicanism, Carlist rebellions in the north, and the Cuban independence movement. He abdicated and returned to Italy in 1873, and the First Spanish Republic was declared as a result.

Granted the hereditary title Duke of Aosta in the year of his birth, he founded the Aosta branch of Italy's royal House of Savoy, which is junior in agnatic descent to the branch descended from King Umberto I that reigned in Italy until 1946, but senior to the branch of the Dukes of Genoa.

Prince Amedeo of Savoy was born in Turin (then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia). He was the second son of King Vittorio Emanuele II (King of Piedmont, Savoy, Sardinia and, later, first King of Italy) and of Archduchess Adelaide of Austria. He was styled the Duke of Aosta from birth.


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