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unusual facts about Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy



Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, called for a general fast in England and proposed to send the British Navy if the massacre was not stopped while gathering funds for helping the Waldensians.

Glenmore Trenear-Harvey

In June 2005, Trenear-Harvey was conferred with a knighthood in the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus from HRH the Duke of Savoy.

Louis of Piedmont

His titles and estates were inherited by his brother-in-law Amadeus VIII, Count of Savoy, who later became Duke of Savoy and Antipope.

Palace of Venaria

The Palace was designed and built from 1675 by Amedeo di Castellamonte, commissioned by duke Charles Emmanuel II, who needed a base for his hunting expeditions in the heathy hill country north of Turin.


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