Religion Roman Catholicism House House of Savoy-Carignano | Name Victor I, | |
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Detail Joseph Victor Amedee
Anne Therese, Princess of Soubise
Louis Victor
Victor Amedee Father Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano Mother Maria Angela Caterina d'Este Died April 4, 1741, Turin, Italy Spouse Maria Vittoria of Savoy (m. 1714) Children Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, Princess Anne Therese of Savoy Parents Maria Angela Caterina d'Este, Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano Similar People Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert d, Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, Marie Therese Louise de | ||
Victor Amadeus of Savoy (March 1, 1690 – April 4, 1741) was an Italian nobleman who was Prince of Carignano from 1709 to 1741. He was the son of Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, Prince of Carignano and his wife, the Maria Angela Caterina d'Este.
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Biography
Born in Turin, he was the third child of four and the eldest son.
Made a Knight of the Annunciation in 1696, he married, at Moncalieri on November 7, 1714, Marie Anne Victoire France of Savoy (1690–1766), legitimised daughter of Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, King of Sardinia and of Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, Countess of Verrue.
His father-in-law showed affection for him but ended up depriving him, in 1717, of his 400,000 livres of annual income because of excessive spending. It was then that he ran away to France, at the end of 1718, in order to take possession of his inheritance.
Since he had lost the Chateau de Conde to Jean-Francois Leriget de La Faye when it was confiscated from his family by Louis XIV) on March 6, 1719, he established himself in the hotel de Soissons, which he transformed, with his wife who had followed him there, into a "sumptuous gaming house" which for a time sheltered the economist John Law. He died, ruined, and his hotel was razed to construct in its place a grain-trading hall, now the site of the Bourse de commerce de Paris.
He had a passion for the Paris Opera, and was named intendant of the Menus-Plaisirs by Louis XV. He brought about the disgrace of the tax farmer Alexandre Le Riche de La Poupeliniere after he caught him in the company of his mistress, the actress Marie Antier.
Family
Victor Amadeus' children were: