Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy

Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (Italian: Carlo Emanuele II di Savoia, born June 20, 1634 Turin, † June 12, 1675 in Turin) was Duke of Savoy, Prince of Piedmont, Margrave of Saluzzo, Count of Aosta, Moriana, Asti and Nice and titular King of Cyprus and Jerusalem ( 1638-1675 ).

Life

Charles Emmanuel II was the third son of Victor Amadeus I of Savoy, and his wife Christina of France born. His maternal grandparents were Henry IV and his second wife Maria de ' Medici. In 1638 he succeeded his older brother Francesco Hyacinth, who had died at the age of six years, with four years as Duke of Savoy after. He was also Duke of Nemours and Ghent. In his first marriage he married Françoise d' Orléans 1663. His second wife he married in 1665 Maria Baptista of Savoy - Nemours, with whom he had the son of Victor Amadeus II, who later became King of Sardinia. He ordered, among others, the writer Emanuele Tesauro as an educator of his children to the court.

His power-conscious mother governed as regent until 1648, then in his name the affairs of state of her son, who lived a life of pleasure far from the government. Only after the death of his mother in 1663, he took office. Karl Emanuel tried to assert his country against the influence of the powerful neighbor France. 1672/73 he wore against Genoa from a war to gain on the Ligurian coast an access to the sea. This undertaking was marred, however.

He promoted trade, built from the port of Nice and contributed to the richness of the Duchy at. The army, by then consisting of mercenaries, he replaced by a standing army. He also built by Northern Italy a crossing of the Alps towards France, the so-called Chemin des Grottes des Échelles.

Charles Emmanuel II was the father of illegitimate children

  • Cristina Ippolita († 1730) ∞ 1686 Carlo Ferrero- Fieschi, Prince of Masserano
  • Luisa Adelaide (1662-1701), was a nun
  • Giuseppe de Trécesson ( 1664-1735/6 ) was abbot of Six and Lucedo
  • Carlo Francesco ( † 1749), Count delle lance, and
  • Carlo ( † after 1740), Count of Sales
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