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MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
MEMoIRS of the KING of SARDINIA. 
HARLES Emmanvet, King of 
Sardinia, was bornin Turin, the me- 
tropolis of his continental dominions, on 
the 24th of May, 1751.  Betore pro- 
ceeding to a ftatement of the public and 
domeftic life of this virtuous and un- 
happy monarch, we think it proper to 
indulge our Readers with a fhort notice 
of the long line of his royal anceftors, 
fo juftly celebrated for their fenfibility, 
prudence, courage, and piety. This 
notice will be fo much the more inter- 
efling, as no hiftorian as yet has fet in 
the due light the viciflitudes and the 
political exertions of. the paft Sovereigns 
ef this illuftrious houfe. 
A thoufand years ‘of gradual increafe 
in greatnefs; upwards of twenty per- 
fons, from father to fon, conttantly fol- 
lowing the fame plan of aggrandiiement 
in the fame way; all thefe princes en- 
dowed nearly with the fame mind 
and charaéter—this is a phenomenon 
which no other houfe or dynafty can re- 
prefent, either in antient or in modern 
times. 
The royal houfe of Sardinia, known 
in the hiftory of the three laft centu- 
ries,,under the name of Dukes of Sa- 
voy, and in the middle ages under thofe 
of Counts of Savoy and of Maurienne, 
defcends from the celebrated Saxon 
princes, who cut out fo much work for 
Charlemagne, before being conquered; 
and next from. the fubfequent emperors 
of the fame Saxon dynafty, who heid the 
German empire after the pofterity of 
that brave conqueror. The genealo- 
gifts ftate that Otho III. the laf em- 
peror of the houfe of Saxony, leit two 
fons; the elder of whom, Frederic, con- 
tinued the fucceffion of the Saxon line 
in Germany; and the younger, Berold, 
or Berthold, founded the houfe of Savoy, 
in Italy. 
1. Berthold, having done the Emperor ' 
Otho fignal fervice, in his capacity of 
Vicegerent of the Empire, was appoint- 
ed Count of Maurienne, about the year 
‘1000. 5 
2. His fon, Humbert (aux blanches 
mains) having likewife been Vicegerent 
of the Empire, about the year 1040, en- 
Jarged his eftates by the acquifition of 
‘the Valais and the Chablais. 
3- The pofthumous fon of Humbert, 
mamzd Otho, acquired fome more coun- 
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tries in Savoy, and the county of 
Suza by marrying the heir of the laft 
count, 
4. Amadeus IT. about the. year.1070, 
availing himfelf of the ditreffes. into 
which the Emperor Henry [V. had fai- 
len through the perfecutions of Pope 
Gregory VII, did not open him the paf- 
fages of the Alps, until he obtained 
from him the county of Bugey. 
5. Humbert IT. his fon and fucceffor, 
increafed his eftates by the acquifition of 
Tarentafia. 
6. Amadeus ITT. about the year 1103 
completed the conqueft of Savoy, and 
he was the firfi to bear the title of Count 
of Savoy. 
7- Thomas, his grandfon and fuc- 
ceffor,conquered Piedmont about the year 
1230. 
8. Amadeus IV. about the year 1260, 
conquered the Genevefe, the Brefvans, 
and the Viennele, 
g- Amadeus VIII. about the year 
1420, received from the Emperor Sigif- 
mond the title of Duke of Sayoy,. and 
Prince of Piedmont; and having 
married Mary Vifconti, of the Milanefe 
dynafty, he had in dowry the city of 
Vercelli with the territory belonging to 
If. 
to. Charles, named the Warrier, about 
the year 1488, upon marrying Blanche 
de Montferrat, made for his fon the im- 
portant acquilition of the marquifate of 
that name. 
rs. Philibert II. acquired from Francis 
I. of France the county of Nizza and 
Villafranca. 
12. Emmanuel Philibert, his grand- 
fon, was one of the greateft generals of - 
his age. He commanded the Imperial 
army of Charles V. at the fiege of 
Metz, aud that of Philip II. at the 
battle of S, Quentin. The greateft of his 
acquifitions was the county of Afi, 
which he. received from Charles V. 
The bet hiftorians compute that he 
raifed the income of his dominions 
from 200 to 600 thoufand ducats. 
13. Emmanuel I. july: called the 
Great, about the year 1590.attempted to 
‘make himfelf Count of Provence. Philip 
II. of Spain, his father-in-law, fup-~ 
ported him, and he had been acknow- 
ledged as Count by the parliament of 
This Prince is the true founder 
of the greatnefs of his houfe; for, hav- 
if ing 
