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Charles Emmanuel IV (
May 24,
1751 –
October 6,
1819) was
King of Sardinia from 1796 to 1802.
Biography
Charles Emmanuel was born in
Turin, the eldest son of King
Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (at the time styled "Duke of Savoy") and of his wife
Infanta Antonia of Spain.
From his birth until his own succession to the throne of Sardinia in 1796 Charles Emmanuel was styled "Prince of
Piedmont".
In 1775 Charles Emmanuel married
Marie Clotilde of France, the daughter of
Louis, Dauphin of France and Princess
Marie-Josèphe of Saxony, and sister of King
Louis XVI of France. Although the union was arranged for political reasons, Charles Emmanuel and his wife became devoted to each other. Their attempts to have children, however, were unsuccessful.
At the death of his father (
October 14,
1796), Charles Emmanuel succeeded as King of Sardinia. The kingdom included not only the island of Sardinia, but also significant territories in northwest
Italy including all of
Piedmont.
At his succession to the throne in 1796, Sardinia had been forced to conclude the disadvantageous
Treaty of Paris (1796) with the
French Republic, giving the French army free passage through Piedmont. On
December 6,
1798, the French under
Joubert occupied Turin and forced Charles Emanuel to abdicate all his territories on the Italian mainland and to withdraw to the island of Sardinia, which stayed out of the reach of the French army. The following year he tried unsuccessfully to regain
Piedmont. He and his wife lived in
Rome and in
Naples as guests of the wealthy
Colonna family.
On
March 7,
1802 Charles Emmanuel's wife Marie Clothilde died. He was so moved by her death that he decided to abdicate,
June 4,
1802 in favour of his brother
Victor Emmanuel. Charles Emmanuel retained the personal title of King. He lived in
Rome and in the nearby town of
Frascati.
In
Frascati he was a frequent guest of his second-cousin
Henry Benedict Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York, last member of the Royal
House of Stuart.
When Henry died in 1807, Charles Emmanuel became the senior heir-general of King
Charles I of England and Scotland, and was thus regarded by
Jacobites as King Charles IV of England, Scotland, France and Ireland. There is no documentary evidence that Charles Emmanuel ever attempted to make a public claim to the title of King of England or Scotland.
Indeed, in 1815 at the age of sixty-four Charles Emmanuel took
simple vows in the
Society of Jesus (the Jesuits). He was never ordained to the priesthood, but lived the rest of his life at the Jesuit novitiate in Rome.
Charles Emmanuel died at Rome,
October 6 1819. He is buried in the Church of
Sant'Andrea al Quirinale.
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