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Principe Maurizio Giuseppe of Sardinia
Duca di Monferrato
(1762–99)

Other names: Maurizio Giuseppe Maria

Biographical

Duca di Monferrato 1773–99†
Knight of the Order of the Holy Annunciation 1783 [Italy]

Governor of Sassari 1799†
Captain general of the Army 1780

At the beginning of the war with France in 1792 Maurizio officially commanded the armies at Savoy, although real control laid in the hands of the Marchese di Cordon. The Marquis, however, failed to resist the invasion Montesquiou at Buonvicino, and he fled. In the following year, Maurizio attempted to recover Savoy, but despite some early successes, the venture failed. He followed King Charles Emmanuel IV, his brother, to Sardinia in 1799 after the family was forced to leave Turin. He was appointed governor of Sassari, and died there some five months later from malaria.

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

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

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