Amadeus I ( Spanish: Amadeo I , known as Amadeus (Amedeo) of Savoy , Italian. Amedeo , May 30, 1845 - January 18, 1890 ), king of Spain from 1870 to 1873 .
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 Spanish King Amadeus I of Savoy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Predecessor | Isabella II | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Alphonse XII | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth | May 30, 1845 Turin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Death | January 18, 1890 ( 44) Turin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Burial place | Superga | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kind | Savoy | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Father | Victor Emmanuel II | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mother | Adelheid Habsburg | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Maria Vittoria Dal Pozzo , Maria Letizia Bonaparte | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Emanuel Philibert , Victor Emmanuel , Luigi Amedeo , Umberto | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Content
Origin
Member of the Italian royal house (second son of King Victor Emanuel II and brother Umberto I ). In Italy he bore the title of Duke of Aosta .
Greek Throne Nominee
In 1862 , after the overthrow in Greece as a result of the uprising of the reigning king Otto I (of the Wittelsbach family), the Greeks held a plebiscite at the end of the year for the choice of a new monarch. There were no ballots with candidates, so any citizen of Greece could offer his candidacy or type of government in the country. The results were released in February 1863 .
Among those entered by the Greeks, was Amadeus I, he took tenth place and scored less than 0.01 percent of the vote. However, in accordance with the decision of the London Conference of 1832 , representatives of the Russian, British and French reigning houses could not occupy the Greek throne [1] . They were all taller than Amadeus, but Amadeus also received a refusal.
Reign in Spain
Amadeus I - the only representative of the Savoy dynasty , who ruled in Spain. He was elected to the throne by the Cortes on November 16, 1870 after a long interregnum, during which the Spanish leadership was looking abroad for the candidacy of a new king. December 30, 1870 landed in Cartagena and January 2, 1871 arrived in Madrid, took the oath of the Constitution. In February 1873, Amadeus, faced with a social crisis and the outbreak of the Second Carlist War , abdicated and the ephemeral Spanish Republic of 1873-1874 was proclaimed, after which the throne returned to the Bourbons in the person of Alphonse XII .
Family and offspring
In 1867 he married the Piedmont aristocrat Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo ( 1847 - 1876 ), in this marriage three sons were born:
- Emanuel Filiberto ( 1869 - 1931 ), 2nd Duke of d'Aosta;
- Victor Emanuel ( 1870 - 1946 ), Count of Turinsky;
- Luigi Amedeo ( 1873 - 1933 ), Duke of Abruzzo, famous traveler.
In 1888, he married his niece Maria Letizia Bonaparte ( 1866 - 1926 ; granddaughter of ex-King Jerome of Westphalia ) for the second time, they had one son Umberto ( 1889 - 1918 ), Count Salemi, who died during the First World War .
The grandson of Amadeus, the Duke of Spoleto Aymone, in 1941 was proclaimed king of Ustashist Croatia under the name Tomislav II (he never visited his possessions).
Names in his honor
In honor of Amadeus I, Lake Amadies is named in Australia.
Notes
- ↑ In 1862, a Danish prince with only 0.00002% of the vote was elected King Archived on February 14, 2015. (eng.)
Links
- Amedean, King of Spain // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- First Spanish Republic