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Giuseppe Benedetto di Savoia
Comte de Maurienne
(1766–1802)

Other names: Giuseppe Benedetto Maria Placido

Biographical

Comte de Maurienne 1766–96
Conte di Asti 1796–1802†
Consignore di Govone 1795
Marchese di Modane 1785
Marquis de Lanslebourg 1785
Seigneur de Montmélian 1786
Seigneur d'Arbin 1786
Seigneur de Francin 1786
Knight of the Holy Order of the Annunciation 1780 [Italy]

Governor of Sassari 1799–1802†
General of the Calvary in the Sardinian army
Colonel of the Maurienne Regiment

After the treaty of Cherasco in 1796, Maurienne passed to France, and Giuseppe received Asti in its place. He followed the family to Sardinia after it was required to leave Piedmont in 1798. He then moved to Tuscany briefly until September 1799 when King Charles Emmanuel IV appointed him governor of Sassari, replacing their brother, Maurizio, Duke of Montferrat, who had died earlier that month. Giuseppe transferred to Sassari and assumed the post. He died there from malaria.

Place of birth: Turin
Place of death: Sassari
Place of burial: Sassari Cathedral

Son of King Vittorio Amedeo III of Sardinia and Infanta María Antonieta of Spain (Borbón).

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