Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia" ¶ 29
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Victor and Amadeus
* 1669 – Anne Marie d ' Orléans, French wife of Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia ( d. 1728 )
In Turin on 29 September 1781 ( by proxy ) and again in Dresden on 24 October 1781 ( in person ), Anton married firstly with the Princess Caroline of Savoy ( Maria Carolina Antonietta Adelaida ), daughter of the King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia and Maria Antonietta of Spain.
His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.
Contemporary observers make only passing comments of his actions, and his own surviving correspondence, largely to his cousin Victor Amadeus, are typically reticent about his own feelings and experiences.
King Charles II of Spain bestowed upon him the Order of the Golden Fleece, while his cousin, Victor Amadeus, provided him with money and two profitable abbeys in Piedmont.
Initially fighting on the Rhine with Max Emmanuel – receiving a slight head wound at the Siege of Mainz in 1689 – Eugene subsequently transferred himself to Piedmont after Victor Amadeus joined the Alliance against France in 1690.
This was Eugene's first truly independent command – no longer need he suffer under the excessively cautious generalship of Caprara and Caraffa, or be thwarted by the deviations of Victor Amadeus.
Amadeus of Savoy, the second son of King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, was selected and duly crowned King of Spain early the following year.
* 1587 – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy ( d. 1637 )
In August 1730 he gave permission for Victor Amadeus II of Savoy to carry out a morganatic marriage to Anna Canalis di Cumiana.
Victor Amadeus II subsequently abdicated his throne causing great unrest in Savoy.
* April 23 – Anna Canalis di Cumiana – morganantic spouse of Victor Amadeus II of Savoy ( d. 1769 )
* October 31 – Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia ( b. 1666 )
* May 14 – Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia ( d. 1732 )
* May 8 – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy ( d. 1637 )
* July 29 – French king Louis XIV and Victor Amadeus van Savoye sign a peace treaty.
In November 1703, during the War of Spanish Succession, Asti fell to France again ; it was reconquered in 1705 by Victor Amadeus II.
Because of these successes, the representatives of nobility and clergy ( Stamenti ) formulated five requests addressed to the King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, but they got a refusal.
Louis XV was the third son of Burgundy and his wife Marie Adélaïde of Savoy the eldest daughter of Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, and Anne Marie d ' Orléans.
Marie Joséphine ( as she was known in France ) was a daughter of the then Duke and Duchess of Savoy, future king Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia.
Charles X married Princess Maria Teresa of Savoy, the daughter of Victor Amadeus III, King of Sardinia and Maria Antonietta of Spain, on 16 November 1773.
His maternal grandparents were Victor Amadeus I of Savoy and Christine Marie of France, daughter of King Henri le Grand.
She was the daughter of Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, and Philip's second cousin Anne Marie d ' Orléans, also the parents of the Duchess of Burgundy, Philip's sister-in-law.
# REDIRECT Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia
# REDIRECT Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia

Victor and organised
Louis XIV organised his marriage in order to maintain French influence in the Duchy but Victor Amadeus soon broke away from the influence of France.

Victor and first
The very first recording was made for RCA Victor in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra recorded the work for RCA Victor, including one of the first stereo recordings of the music.
At Old Trafford, Australia won by just 3 runs after Victor Trumper had scored 104 on a " bad wicket ", reaching his hundred before lunch on the first day.
The author Victor Hugo was one of the first to research argot extensively.
He made his first RCA Victor recordings in Chicago in 1947.
The first amateur railway detective, Thorpe Hazell, was created by Victor Whitechurch and his stories impressed Ellery Queen and Dorothy L. Sayers.
* 1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
It was at this time that Hawks first met Victor Fleming, allegedly when the two men raced on a dirt track and caused an accident.
In the early 20th century, the first monster appeared in a horror film: Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre-Dame, who had appeared in Victor Hugo's novel, Notre-Dame de Paris ( 1831 ).
She did not win her first game until the 11th round and finished with 5 points in 13 games, tied with Victor Korchnoi for 11 – 12 position among the fourteen GMs.
How a cult of Mary Magdalene first arose in Provence has been summed up by Victor Saxer in the collection of essays in La Magdaleine, VIIIe – XIIIe siècle and by Katherine Ludwig Jansen, drawing on popular devotions, sermon literature and iconology.
They changed ownership three times, being purchased from the Sullivan family first by Victor Kiam in 1988, who sold the team to James Orthwein in 1992.
Nick Swainey ( Owen Brenman ) – The excessively cheerful and often oblivious character appeared in the first episode, encouraging Victor to join his OAPs ' trip to Eastbourne.
A party-list proportional representation system was first devised and described in 1878 by Victor D ' Hondt of Belgium.
Desiderius, abbot of Monte Cassino was first chosen pope as Victor III when Gregory VII died in 1085, but after Victor's short reign, Otho was elected Pope Urban II by acclamation ( March 1088 ) at a small meeting of cardinals and other prelates held in Terracina in March 1088.
Pope Victor I was the first bishop of Rome born in the Roman Province of Africa: probably he was born in Leptis Magna ( or Tripolitania ).
However, further studies by Felix Bloch with Arnold Nordsieck, and Victor Weisskopf, in 1937 and 1939, revealed that such computations were reliable only at a first order of perturbation theory, a problem already pointed out by Robert Oppenheimer.
The sonic screwdriver made its first appearance in the serial Fury from the Deep, written by Victor Pemberton.
One of the very first quotes can be found in The Experts Speak, a book written by Christopher Cerf and Victor S. Navasky in 1984.
" He was executed by lethal injection at 7: 14 a. m. on June 11, 2001, at the U. S. Federal Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, the first convicted criminal to be executed by the United States federal government since Victor Feguer was executed in Iowa on March 15, 1963.
The bombers, whose names all started with the letter " V " and which were known collectively as the V-class, were the Vickers Valiant ( first flew 1951, entered service 1955 ), Avro Vulcan ( first flew 1952, in service 1956 ) and Handley Page Victor ( first flew 1952, in service 1958 ).

1.212 seconds.