Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano

Charles Emmanuel of Savoy, 6th Prince of Carignano (24 October 1770 – 16 August 1800) was a Prince of Savoy and later the Prince of Carignano between 1780 and 1800, and the paternal grandfather of Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king of a united Italy.

Charles Emmanuel of Savoy
Prince of Carignano
Prince of Carignano
Reign	10 September 1780 – 16 August 1800
Predecessor	Victor Amadeus II
Successor	Charles Albert
Born	24 October 1770 Palazzo Carignano, Turin
Died	16 August 1800 (aged 29) Paris, France
Burial	Royal Basilica of Superga
Spouse	Maria Christina of Saxony ​ ​ (m. 1797)​
Issue Detail	Charles Albert, King of Sardinia Elisabeth, Archduchess of Austria
Names Carlo Emanuele di Savoia
House	Savoy-Carignano
Father	Victor Amadeus of Savoy
Mother	Joséphine of Lorraine

Biography

He was a son of Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano and Joséphine of Lorraine, and a fifth-generation descendant of Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy.

On 24 October 1797 he married in Turin Maria Christina of Saxony, daughter of Carl Christian Joseph of Saxony, Duke of Courland, himself son of Augustus III of Poland. They had two children.

Charles Emmanuel died three years after his marriage in a French prison. He had fought against the French in the First Coalition War, but had made peace with the Republicans after the abdication of Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia. Soon after he became a suspect and was imprisoned in the Citadel of Turin. From there he was moved to Dijon and then to Chaillot in Paris, where he died. He was buried at the Basilica of Superga.

Issue

• Prince Charles Albert of Savoy (1798–1849), Prince of Carignano, and King of Sardinia, married Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria and had issue;
• Princess Elisabeth of Savoy (1800–1856), married Archduke Rainer of Austria and had issue.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano

16. Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano 8. Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano 17. Maria Angela Caterina d'Este 4. Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano 18. Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia 9. Maria Vittoria of Savoy 19. Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes 2. Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano 20. William, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg 10. Ernest Leopold, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg 21. Countess Maria Anna of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort 5. Landgravine Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg 22. Maximilian Karl Albert, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort 11. Countess Eleonore of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort 23. Countess Maria Polyxena Khuen of Lichtenberg and Belasi 1. Charles Emmanuel of Savoy, Prince of Carignano 24. Henri, Count of Brionne 12. Louis, Prince of Lambesc 25. Marie Madeleine d'Éspinay 6. Louis, Prince of Brionne 26. Jacques Henri II de Durfort, Duke of Duras 13. Jeanne Henriette Marguerite de Durfort 27. Louise Madeleine Eschalard de La Marck 3. Princess Joséphine of Lorraine 28. Charles III, Prince of Guéméné 14. Charles, Prince of Rochefort 29. Charlotte Élisabeth de Cochefilet 7. Louise de Rohan 30. Eugène Marie de Béthisy, Marquis of Mézières 15. Eléonore Eugénie de Béthisy de Mézières 31. Eléonore Oglethorpe

External links

• Biography^{[permanent dead link]} (in Italian)