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9 unusual facts about House of Savoy


Alberto della Marmora

After Napoleon's abdication Marmora gave his allegiance to the House of Savoy, the ruling house of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Ceprano

After Italian Unification and the Capture of Rome, the town was part of the Kingdom of Italy, a constitutional monarchy ruled from Rome by the House of Savoy.

Feast of the Holy Winding Sheet of Christ

This feast was celebrated on 4 May, the day after the Invention of the Cross, and was approved in 1506 by Pope Julius II; it was kept in Savoy, Piedmont, and Sardinia as the patronal feast of the royal House of Savoy (4 May, double of the first class, with octave).

First marshal of the empire

For the first time in the history of the House of Savoy, the Prime Minister of Italy bore a rank equal with that of the head of the royal house giving him a mortgage on the high command of the Italian armed forces, a power of the king under the provisions of Statuto Albertino.

Jowhar

Jowhar was founded by a senior member of the Italian Royal Family, H.R.H. Principe Luigi Amedeo, Duca degli Abruzzi in 1920, who first came to the African continent in 1905 and liked the place.

King Victor and King Charles

Over the past decades of Victor Amadeus's rule, the House of Savoy has prospered.

Lazzaroni

In the novel La caccia al tesoro by Andrea Camilleri, published in 2010, Inspector Montalbano receives an anonymous parcel containing a Lazzaroni litographed box with the words "Fornitori della Real Casa" (literally "Suppliers of the Royal House") on it, a title formerly awarded to manufacturers who became official suppliers for the House of Savoy.

Piedmontese regional election, 2010

The day after his bid was announced, Cota explained that it is time to rewrite the history of Italian unification, that was led by the Kingdom of Sardinia under the House of Savoy.

Turin-Milan Hours

Most of this part of the work, the prayer-book section, known as the Turin Hours, belonged by 1479 to the House of Savoy, later Kings of Piedmont (and subsequently Italy), who gave it in 1720 to the National Library in Turin.


Anne de Montafié, Countess of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis

The present House of Savoy are direct descendants of Anne through her daughter Marie, Princess of Carignano.

Beatrice of Bâgé

Beatrice of Savoy, (1278–1318), better known as Béatrice de Bâgé was born at Bâgé-le-Châtel, in Provence Fance, the second daughter of Count Amadeus V of Savoy and Sybille of Bâgé, she was a member of the House of Savoy.

Carlo Negri

However, this "move" was not made for merely political reasons: the Stormo had very strong ties with Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (and therefore with the House of Savoy) although Amedeo had left the command of the unit by the late 1930s to take up the place of Governor General of Italian East Africa and had died the year before as a POW of the British in Kenya.

Château de Thorens

In the 17th century, the family of Sales, originating from La Roche-sur-Foron and extremely old, saw a fast rise, occupying the highest charges at the House of Savoy in Turin, going from the titles of baron to those of count and, finally, marquis.

Italian and Swiss expedition

The king of Sardinia greeted him as a hero and conferred on him the rank of "Prince of the House of Savoy", among other honors.

Marcos de Niza

He was born in Nice (de Niza means of Nice in Spanish)), which was at that time under the control of the Italian House of Savoy.

National Liberation Committee

It was created by the Italian Communist Party, the Italian Socialist Party, the Partito d'Azione (a republican liberal socialist party), Democrazia Cristiana (the Catholic party), the Labour Democratic Party and the Italian Liberal Party, took control of the movement, in accordance with King Victor Emmanuel III's ministers and the Allies.

Ouvrage Sainte-Agnès

In the 16th century the House of Savoy built a fortification in Sainte-Agnès, which was a strategic location between the Counts of Provence and Genoa.

Sicilian nobility

Their dynasty was the fount of honour which regulated the titulature of the Sicilian nobility until their deposition in 1860, whereupon the House of Savoy as the new kings of Italy recognized the titles, but not the traditional precedence, of the Sicilian nobility as part of the Italian nobility.


see also

Duke Aimone

Prince Aimone, Duke of Apulia, Italian nobleman, current heir apparent to the disputed headship of the House of Savoy

Fert

FERT, the motto of the former Italian Royal House of Savoy

Francesco Podesti

Commissioned by the House of Savoy, he painted Judgment of Solomon for the Royal Palace of Turin and Henry II blesses the marriage of Emanuale Filiberto of Savoy for the residence in Agliè.

Humbert II

Umberto II of Italy, sometimes Humbert II, (1904–1983), of the House of Savoy, King of Italy

Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours

Her large dowry included border provinces of Genevois, Faucigny as well as Beaufort which would become the property of the mainline House of Savoy.

Piedmontese regional election, 2010

For these reasons Cota, who is a republican and has no nostalgia of the House of Savoy, says his message will do well in Piedmont and that he will overcome the weakness of Lega Piemont (that usually gets far less votes than Liga Veneta in Veneto and Lega Lombarda in Lombardy).