Victor-Amédée de Savoie (1699-1715)

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Victor-Amédée de Savoie, Prince of Piedmont (Vittorio Amedeo Giovanni Filippo; – ) was the son of Victor Amédée II de Savoie, king of Sardinia, Cyprus and Jerusalem, and Anne-Marie d'Orléans.

Biography

Brother of the Queen of Spain Marie-Louise Gabrielle de Savoie and the Dauphine Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, he is a nephew of the Duke of Orléans and the Duchess of Lorraine and Bar Élisabeth-Charlotte d'Orléans.

Shortly after his birth, the death of King Charles II of Spain fueled the ambitions of the European sovereigns and Europe plunged again into war (Inheritance War). Like the Duchy of Lorraine and the Duchy of Bar, the Duchy of Savoie is occupied by French troops. Her sister the dolphin, her brother-in-law the dolphin and his nephew the Duke of Brittany died in 1712. Her sister, the queen of Spain, died in 1714.

The war ended in 1713. The Treaty of Utrecht gave his father the Kingdom of Sicily and the prince became the heir of a real kingdom.

In spite of his youth, diplomatic talks have in turn considered marrying the young prince to the Archduchess Marie-Amélie of Austria, to the infant Françoise-Josèphe of Portugal and to the heiress of the Duchy of Parma, Plaisance and Guastalla Élisabeth Farnese.

In 1715 (read 1713), going to be crowned king and queen of Sicily, his father wished to entrust the regency to his own mother, the duchess of customs Marie-Jeanne-Baptiste de Savoie-Nemours, who had already exercised regency during the minority of his son. The 71-year-old Duchess of Customs refused, and the Duke entrusted this charge to his eldest son.

The young prince died soon after of smallpox in Turin aged 15. His brother Charles-Emmanuel succeeded him as heir.

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