Maurizio of Savoy was a prince of Savoy and styled the Duke of Montferrat.

Biography

Montferrat was born at the Royal Palace of Turin in 1762. He was the ninth child of Victor Amadeus of Savoy

Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia

Victor Amadeus III was King of Sardinia from 1773 until his death. Although he was politically conservative, he carried out numerous administrative reforms until declaring war on revolutionary France in 1792...

 (then styled the "Duke of Savoy") and Maria Antonietta of Spain

Maria Antonietta of Spain

Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain was an Infanta of Spain and the youngest daughter of Philip V of Spain and Elisabeth Farnese. She was the wife of Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia whom she married in 1750...

. He was styled the Duke of Montferrat from birth. The capital of Montferrat, Casale Monferrato

Casale Monferrato

Casale Monferrato, population 36,058, is a town and comune in the Piedmont region of north-west Italy, part of the province of Alessandria. It is situated about 60 km east of Turin on the right bank of the Po, where the river runs at the foot of the Montferrato hills. Beyond the river lies the...

, was the scene of great celebration at his birth in his honour. As a royal prince, he received an appanage

Appanage

An apanage or appanage or is the grant of an estate, titles, offices, or other things of value to the younger male children of a sovereign, who would otherwise have no inheritance under the system of primogeniture...

 of 20 Million Piedmont scudo

Piedmont scudo

The scudo was the currency of the Piedmont and the other mainland parts of the Savoyard Kingdom of Sardinia until 1816. It was subdivided into 6 lire , each of 20 soldi or 240 denari. The doppia was worth 2 scudi...

.

In order to escape the threat of Napoleon I

Napoleon I

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...

, Montferrat fled to Sardinia

Sardinia

Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...

 with his brothers the Duke of Aosta and Charles Felix of Sardinia

Charles Felix of Sardinia

Charles Felix was the Duke of Savoy, Piedmont, Aosta and King of Sardinia from 1821 to 1831.-Early life:...

 where the trio lived in the Palazzo Carcassona. His oldest brother Charles Emmanuel IV

Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia

Charles Emmanuel IV was King of Sardinia from 1796 to 1802. He abdicated in favour of his brother Victor Emmanuel I...

 fled to Rome. In June 1799 his brother Charles Emmanuel created him the Governor of the provine of Sassari

Sassari

Sassari is an Italian city. It is the second-largest city of Sardinia in terms of population with about 130,000 inhabitants, or about 300,000 including the greater metropolitan area...

 Montferrat himself died on the island in 1799. He died of Malaria

Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by eukaryotic protists of the genus Plasmodium. The disease results from the multiplication of Plasmodium parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases...

 and was buried at the Cathedral of Alghero

Alghero Cathedral

Alghero Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Alghero in the province of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy...

. His younger brother Giuseppe, Count of Asti also died of Malaria in 1802.

Ancestry

Titles and styles

• 13 December 1762 – 1 September 1799 His Royal Highness the Duke of Montferrat