Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
Monarch
1820 – 1878
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Who was Victor Emmanuel II of Italy?
Victor Emanuel II was king of Sardinia from 1849 until, on 17 March 1861, he assumed the title King of Italy to become the first king of a united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death in 1878. The Italians gave him the epithet Father of the Homeland.
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- Born
- Mar 16, 1820
Palazzo Carignano - Also known as
- Victor Emanuel II
- Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso
- King of Sardinia
- Parents
- Spouses
- Adelaide of Austria
(1842 - 1855/01/20) - Rosa Vercellana
(1869/10/18 - 1878/01/09)
- Adelaide of Austria
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Roman Catholic Church
- Ethnicity
- Italian people
- Nationality
- Italy
- Died
- Jan 9, 1878
Rome - Resting place
- Pantheon
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on July 23, 2013
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