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Ferdinando Umberto di Savoia
3rd Duca di Genova
(1884–1963)

Other names: Ferdinando Umberto Filippo Adalberto Maria

Biographical

3rd Duc di Genova 1931–63†
Principe di Udine 1904
Knight of the Order of the Holy Annunciation [Italy]
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Maurice and Lazarus [Italy]
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy [Italy]
Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Order of Malta [Vatican]
Medal of Military Valour, silver (twice) [Italy]
Knight of the Military Order of Savoy 1919 [Italy]

Admiral 1934
Rear admiral 1927
Lieutenant
Captain
Ensign 1904

Ferdinando attended the Naval Academy from 1901 until 1904 when he was appointed midshipman. As part of his training, he sailed around the world on the cruisers Vespucci and Calabria from 1905 to 1907. He was present in the Italo-Turkish war in 1912 as a captain, and was a navy lieutenant in the First World War when he occupied the Curzolari islands. In 1917, he was chosen to lead the Italian War Commission sent to the United States that year, which was also attended by Guglielmo Marconi. He founded the Italian Powerboat Federation (Federazione Italiana Motonautica) in 1923 and was its first president. In 1930, he represented the King of Italy at the coronation of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, and was later appointed commander of the upper Adriatic Sea. He was in Portugal briefly after the royal family's exile, but returned to Italy and settled in Bordighera, retiring from public life permanently.

Place of birth: Turin
Place of marriage: Turin
Place of death: Bordighera
Place of burial: Basilica of Superga

Son of Principe Tommaso di Savoia-Genova and Princess Isabella of Bavaria (Wittelsbach). He married Maria Luisa Alliaga Gandolfi dei Conti di Ricaldone (†1986), in 1938, and had no issue.

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