Contents

Prince Eugenio, Duke of Genoa

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Prince Eugenio, Duke of Genoa" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this articlebyadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Prince Eugenio, Duke of Genoa" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Duke of Genoa

Prince Eugenio
Duke of Genoa Duke of Ancona
Born	(1906-03-13)13 March 1906 Turin, Kingdom of Italy
Died	8 December 1996(1996-12-08) (aged 90) São Paulo, Brazil
Burial	Basilica of Superga, near Turin
Spouse	Princess Lucia of the Two Sicilies ​ ​ (m. 1938)​
Issue	Princess Maria Isabella of Savoy-Genoa
Names Italian: Eugenio Alfonso Carlo Maria Giuseppe
House	Savoy
Father	Thomas, 2nd Duke of Genoa
Mother	Princess Isabella of Bavaria

Prince Eugenio of Savoy, 5th Duke of Genoa^{[citation needed]} (Eugenio Alfonso Carlo Maria Giuseppe; 13 March 1906 – 8 December 1996) was a member of the House of Savoy, Duke of Ancona from birth, and the 5th and final Duke of Genoa. Prince Eugenio was the sixth and youngest child of Prince Thomas of Savoy, 2nd Duke of Genoa and his wife Princess Isabella of Bavaria.^{[citation needed]}

Marriage and issue[edit]

Prince Eugenio married Princess Lucia of the Two Sicilies, fifth child and fourth-eldest daughter of Prince Ferdinand Pius of the Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria and his wife Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria, on 29 October 1938 at Nymphenburg PalaceinMunich, Germany.^{[citation needed]} The bride and groom were second cousins once removed in descent from King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Prince Eugenio and Princess Lucia had one daughter:^{[citation needed]}

• Princess Maria Isabella Elena Immacolata Barbara Anna Pace of Savoy-Genoa (born 23 June 1943 in Rome), married on 29 April 1971 in Lausanne, Alberto Frioli dei Conti di Rezzano (born 7 April 1943 in Rimini), son of Guido Frioli, Count of Rezzano, and Vittoria Fabbri. They have four children.

Later life[edit]

After the dissolution of the Kingdom of Italy in 1946, Prince Eugenio and his family relocated to Brazil where the Duke ran a farm. Upon his death on 8 December 1996, the male line of the Genoa branch of the House of Savoy became extinct as did the Royal Dukedom of Genoa. In 2006, the ashes of the Duke and Duchess of Genoa were transferred to the Royal Crypt of Superga near Turin.

Honours[edit]

• 
  • Knight of the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation
  • Knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
• Knight Grand Cross of Justice of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George
• Knight of Honor and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta
• Knight of the Order of Saint Hubert

Ancestry[edit]

References[edit]

Chaffanjon, Arnaud; Zalewski, Maurice (29 March 1985). "La Maison de Savoie fête les 90 [sic] ans du duc de Gênes". Point de Vue, Images du Monde. 36 (1913): 14–15, 26.