Charles Emmanuel IV (Carlo Emanuele Ferdinando Maria; 24 May 1751 – 6 October 1819) was King of Sardinia from 1796 to 1802. He abdicated in favour of his brother

Victor Emmanuel I Victor Emmanuel I (Vittorio Emanuele; 24 July 1759 – 10 January 1824) was the Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia (1802–1821). Biography Victor Emmanuel was the second son of King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia and Maria Antonia Ferdinanda ...

Biography

Carlo Emanuele Ferdinando Maria di Savoia was born in

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, the eldest son of

Victor Amadeus III Victor Amadeus III (Vittorio Amadeo Maria; 26 June 1726 – 16 October 1796) was King of Sardinia from 1773 to his death. Although he was politically conservative, he carried out numerous administrative reforms until he declared war on Revolut ...

, King of Sardinia, and of his wife

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Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain , mother = Elisabeth Farnese , birth_date = , birth_place = Alcázar of Seville, Spain , death_date = , death_place = Castle of Moncalieri, Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia , burial_date = September 1785 , burial_place = Basilica ...

. From his birth to his own succession to the throne of Sardinia in 1796, Charles Emmanuel was styled " Prince of Piedmont"."Carlo Emanuele IV, King of Sardinia", The British Museum
/ref> Duprà Domenico, follower of - Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia

Duprà Domenico, follower of - Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia

In 1775, Charles Emmanuel married

Marie Clotilde of France Marie Clotilde of France (Marie Adélaïde Clotilde Xavière; 23 September 1759 – 7 March 1802), known as Clotilde in Italy, was Queen of Sardinia by marriage to Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia. She was the younger sister of Louis XVI of Fr ...

, the daughter of Louis, Dauphin of France and Princess

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, and sister of King

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. Although the union was arranged for political reasons, Charles Emmanuel and his wife became devoted to each other. Their attempts to have children, however, were unsuccessful. At the death of his father (14 October 1796), Charles Emmanuel succeeded as King of Sardinia. The kingdom included not only the island of Sardinia but also significant territories in northwest

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including all of

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. At his succession to the throne in 1796, Sardinia had been forced to conclude the disadvantageous Treaty of Paris (1796) with the French Republic, giving the French army free passage through Piedmont. On 6 December 1798 the French, under Joubert, occupied Turin and forced Charles Emanuel to abdicate all his territories on the Italian mainland and to withdraw to the island of Sardinia,''Southern Europe: International Dictionary of Historic Places'', (Trudy Ring, Noelle Watson, Paul Schellinger, eds.) Routledge, 2013, p. 116
which stayed out of the reach of the French army. The following year he tried unsuccessfully to regain

. He and his wife lived in

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and in

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as guests of the wealthy Colonna family. Porträt der König Carlo Emanuele IV von Savoyen

On 7 March 1802, Charles Emmanuel's wife Marie Clothilde died. He was so moved by her death that he decided to abdicate, on 4 June 1802, in favour of his brother Victor Emmanuel. Charles Emmanuel retained the personal title of King. He lived in

and in the nearby town of

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. In

he was a frequent guest of

Henry Benedict Stuart Henry Benedict Thomas Edward Maria Clement Francis Xavier Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York (6 March 1725 – 13 July 1807) was a Roman Catholic cardinal, as well as the fourth and final Jacobite heir to publicly claim the thrones of Great Brita ...

, Cardinal Duke of York, last member of the Royal

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, who was his cousin. Charles was descended from Henrietta Anne Stuart, the youngest daughter of

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, whereas Henry Benedict Stuart was descended from James II who was the second son of

. When Henry died in 1807, Charles Emmanuel became the heir-general of King

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, and thus inherited the Jacobite claim to the British throne. Unlike his three predecessors, however, he (as well as his successors) never made any attempt to claim the throne. In 1815, at the age of sixty-four, Charles Emmanuel took

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s in the

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(the Jesuits). He was never ordained to the priesthood but lived the rest of his life at the Jesuit novitiate in Rome. Charles Emmanuel died at the

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in Rome on 6 October 1819. He is buried in the Church of

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