Victor Emmanuel I of Savoy

Victor Emmanuel I (July 24, 1759 –  January 10, 1824) was the Duke of Savoy, Piedmont, and Aosta, and King of Sardinia from 1802 to 1821.He was the second son of King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia and Maria Antonietta of Bourbon (1729-1785). His maternal grandparents were Philip V of Spain and Elizabeth Farnese.Victor Emmanuel was known from birth as the Duke of Aosta. He succeeded his brother, Charles Emmanuel IV, as King of Sardinia upon the latter's abdication in 1802. In 1793 he took an active part in the struggle of the old powers against the French Revolutionary forces in Savoy, but, defeated, in 1799 he took refuge in Sardinia, which was the only part of his domains not conquered by the French. During his exile at Cagliari he constituted the Carabinieri élite corps, still existing as one of the main branches of Italian Army.
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