Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia

Charles Emmanuel IV Ferdinand Maria, Italian Carlo Emanuele IV Fernando Maria ( born May 24, 1751 Turin, † October 6, 1819 in Rome), was King of Sardinia and Duke of Savoy.

Charles Emmanuel IV was the eldest son of King Victor Amadeus III. of Sardinia and Maria Antonia of Spain. The later Cardinal Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil acted as his tutor.

He followed his father in 1796 as King of Sardinia and Duke of Savoy to the throne.

In 1775 he married Clothilde of France, sister of King Louis XVI. of France. The marriage remained childless. Sickly and without vigor, he was robbed in 1798 by the French of his possessions on the mainland and retreated back to Sardinia in 1799. On March 7, 1802, died Clothilde. From the death of his wife very touched, Charles Emmanuel decided to abdicate. He left his brother Victor Emmanuel I. to the throne of Sardinia, but not the Duchy of Savoy, and settled in Rome and Frascati.

In Frascati he was a frequent guest of his cousins ​​Henry Benedict Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York. This was the second son of James Francis Edward Stuart ( The Old Pretender, 1688-1766 ), a son of King James II, the last king of the Stuarts, who had been deposed by the Glorious Revolution. After the death of Cardinal Duke 1807 saw the Jacobite Charles Emanuel - as the next of kin of the Stuarts - as Charles IV, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, at. Karl Emanuel himself never publicly claimed this item.

1815 Charles Emmanuel joined the Jesuits. He was not ordained a priest of this and lived until his death as a novice in Rome. He died there on October 6, 1819 and is buried in the church of Sant 'Andrea al Quirinale.