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2 unusual facts about king of Italy


58th Infantry Division Legnano

After allied forces had landed on the Italian peninsula and an armistice between Italy and the Allies had been signed, the division stayed loyal to the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III, who fled with the royal court from Rome to Brindisi.

Battle of Firenzuola

The battle was a defeat for Berengar, who was thus de facto dethroned and replaced by Rudolf as King of Italy.


Epiphania of Pavia

Epiphania, Epifania or Pyphania (d. 800) is recorded in the late medieval traditions of Pavia as daughter of Ratchis (744/749 – 756/757), King of the Lombards and of Italy.

Gabardini G.9

In October 1923, Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947), King of Italy (1900-1946), visited Cameri airfield, where he observed a demonstration of the G.9bis.

Imperial and Royal Majesty

Napoleon I was also styled Imperial and Royal Majesty between 1805 and 1814 as Emperor of the French and King of Italy.

Pietro IV Candiano

Pietro IV intervened to save his father's life and exiled him with a small group of followers to Ivrea, where the Margrave Guy took him to his father, the king of Italy, Berengar II.

Villa del Poggio Imperiale

The new King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel II, with many palaces at his disposal and an obligation to travel across Italy in the interests of the unification, had little need for a second large palace, such as Villa del Poggio Imperiale, in such close proximity to the Palazzo Pitti.


see also

Adelaide di Borgogna

Adelaide di Borgogna, ossia Ottone, re d'Italia (Adelaide of Burgundy, or Otto, King of Italy) is a two-act opera composed by Gioachino Rossini (with contributions by Michele Carafa) to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt.

Battle of Firenzuola

His own grandson and namesake, Berengar II, who would later be king of Italy as well, fought on the winning side against him.

Louis of Provence was elected as king of Italy in 900, with support particularly from Anscar I of Ivrea.

Counts and dukes of Valois

Pepin I or Pepin, Count of Vermandois and Valois (ca. 886–892), son of Bernard, King of Italy.

George Grey Turner

As a young surgeon, he travelled around the world, being received by the Pope, Benito Mussolini, the King of Italy and King Alfonso of Spain.

Guglielmo Massaia

Immediately after his ordination to the priesthood, he was appointed lector of theology; but even whilst teaching he acquired some fame as a preacher and was chosen confessor to Prince Victor Emmanuel, afterwards King of Italy, and Ferdinand, Duke of Genoa.

Humbert II

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

King Guy

Guy III of Spoleto, King of Italy in 889 and Holy Roman Emperor in 891 until his death in 894

Roman Catholic Diocese of Brescia

Many struggles followed, in particular after Margrave Arduin of Ivrea, who had proclaimed himself King of Italy (1002), had slain the bishop of this city of holding allegiance to Holy Roman Emperor Henry II.

Zwentibold

In Summer 893 Arnulf, receiving pleas of intervention against emperor Wido of Spoleto from pope Formosus and Berengar of Friuli, king of Italy, sent Zwentibold down the Brenner Pass with an army.