Eugenio Emanuele, Prince of Carignano

Eugenio di Savoia-Carignano arrives at the Palazzo Pitti in Firenze as Lieutenant General in 1866. Eugenio di Savoia-Carignano with his staff at the Siege of Gaeta (1861). Prince Eugene Emmanuel of Savoy-Carignano, Count of Villafranca (Paris, 14 April 1816 – Turin, 15 December 1888) was a statesman and military leader for Piedmont–Sardinia and later for the Kingdom of Italy.

Biography He was a son of Joseph Marie de Savoie-Carignan (1783–1825), a close relative of King Charles Albert of Sardinia, and his wife, Pauline Antoinette de Quélen de Stuer de Caussade (1783–1829), daughter of French Ambassador Paul François de Quélen de Stuer de Caussade and Antoinette de Pons. His elder sister was Princess Maria Filiberta of Savoy and his grandfather was Prince Eugenio, Count of Villafranca.

He graduated from the Royal Naval School in Genoa, after which he joined the navy as an officer. In the summer of 1834, with the rank of lieutenant, he transferred from the navy to the army, initially to the Piedmont cavalry. By 1836 he had become a colonel, and in 1844, a lieutenant general. In parallel, he continued to be listed in the navy, and was eventually promoted to admiral.

He received the Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece during the short Spanish reign of his cousin Amadeus I, as well as several other awards.

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