Amadeo I | |||||
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Duke of Aosta | |||||
King of Spain (more...) | |||||
Reign | 16 November 1870 – 11 February 1873 | ||||
Predecessor |
Isabella II as Queen of Spain Francisco Serrano as Regent of Spain |
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Successor |
Estanislao Figueras as President of the Republic Alfonso XII as King of Spain |
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Prime Ministers | |||||
Born |
Royal Palace, Turin, Sardinia |
30 May 1845||||
Died | 18 January 1890 Royal Palace, Turin, Italy |
(aged 44)||||
Burial | Basilica of Superga, Italy | ||||
Spouse |
Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo Maria Letizia Bonaparte |
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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 |
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House | Savoy | ||||
Father | Victor Emmanuel II of Italy | ||||
Mother | Adelaide of Austria | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Full name | |
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Italian: Amedeo Ferdinando Maria di Savoia |
Royal styles of Amadeo I of Spain |
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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.