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Amadeo I
Duke of Aosta
Amadeo I, c. 1870-73
King of Spain
Reign
16 November 1870 – 11 February 1873
Predecessor
Isabella II as Queen of Spain The 1st Duke of la Torre as Regent of Spain
Successor
Estanislao Figueras as President of the Republic Alfonso XII as King of Spain
Prime Ministers
See list
Juan Bautista Topete The Duke of la Torre Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla The Marquess of San Rafael Práxedes Mateo Sagasta The Marquess of Mendigorría Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla
Born
(1845-05-30)30 May 1845 Royal Palace, Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia
Died
18 January 1890(1890-01-18) (aged 44) Royal Palace, Turin, Kingdom of Italy
Burial
Basilica of Superga, Italy
Spouses
Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo
(m. 1867; died 1876)
Maria Letizia Bonaparte
(m. 1888)
Issue
Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta
Prince Vittorio Emanuele, Count of Turin
Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi
Prince Umberto, Count of Salemi
Names
Italian: Amedeo Ferdinando Maria
Spanish: Amadeo Fernando María
English: Amadeus Ferdinand Mary
House
Savoy
Father
Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
Mother
Adelaide of Austria
Religion
Catholicism
Signature
Amadeo I (Italian: Amedeo Ferdinando Maria di Savoia; 30 May 1845 – 18 January 1890), also known as Amadeus, was an Italian prince who reigned as King of Spain from 1870 to 1873. The only king of Spain to come from the House of Savoy, he was the second son of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and was known for most of his life as the Duke of Aosta, the usual title for a second son in the Savoyard dynasty.
He was elected by the Cortes Generales as Spain's monarch in 1870, following the deposition of Isabel II, and was sworn in the following year. Amadeo's reign was fraught with growing republicanism, Carlist rebellions in the north, and the Cuban independence movement. After three tumultuous years on the throne, he abdicated and returned to Italy in 1873, and the First Spanish Republic was declared as a result.
He founded the Aosta branch of Italy's royal House of Savoy, which is junior in agnatic descent to the branch descended from King Umberto I that reigned in Italy until 1946, but senior to the branch of the dukes of Genoa.
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