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Emanuele di Savoia
Marchese di Andorno
(>1600–52)

Biographical

Marchese di Andorno 1621
Marchese di Valle 1621
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazarus [Italy]
Commander of the Orders of Saints Maurice and Lazarus 1631 [Italy]

Podestà of Asti
Podestà of Biella

Emanuele was a captain of cuirassiers during the civil war. He was able to hold Asti, when governor, against the French, but succumbed to the Spanish. His date of birth is not known, but it was between the years 1600 and 1609.

There is a grim little story of this time—how Don Emmanuel di Savoia died in 1652, in Andorno, in the most miserable condition. He was left for four days in a wretched cabin, no one offering to bury him; and at last he was buried with ignominious parsimony by the commune. The original document is so odd that I give it as I find it in La Storia di Biella, by Severino Pozzo; from which book and Sismondi’s Italian Republics, together with Gallenga's Fra Dolcino, I have taken most of my material, save what I picked up by word of mouth on the spot:—

'Excellentissimus D. Emanuel a Sabaudia, filius Celsitudinis Caroli Emanuelis Ducis Sabaudiae, soluit Deo debitum refectus sacramentis et die octava exportatus statim in campanile a 6 ore di notte in una casia ove stette 4 giorni e nessuno cercava di farlo sepellire, che toccò alla comunità a farli il funerale, cioè misero X torchie di oncie 10 l'una e il sabato poi di notte li 12 sudetto per aver io detto di farlo portar fori di chiesa non che del campanile perchè jam fetebat, andò Giovanni Virla ed il staffier Vercellono a cacciarlo in un monumento di mio cognato, e il Cav. Pissina mandato da madama per soccorso con 100 doppie non spese un soldo, anzi portò via tutte le sue robbe, mobili di casa e cavalli, meno pagò nessun religioso, ma come dico fù sepolto miseramente. Talis vita, similis exitus. (Io Petrus Franc. Bagnasaccas Concuratus.)'

– The Gentleman's Magazine

Place of death: Andorno

Illegitimate son of Carlo Emanuele I di Savoia and Luisa Duyn.

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