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Charles Emmanuel II

duke of Savoy
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Born:
June 20, 1634, Turin, Savoy
Died:
June 12, 1675, Turin (aged 40)
House / Dynasty:
House of Savoy
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Charles Emmanuel II (born June 20, 1634, Turin, Savoy—died June 12, 1675, Turin) was the duke of Savoy from 1638 to 1675, during a period of restoration and consolidation in the whole of Piedmont. A younger son of Victor Amadeus I of Savoy, Charles Emmanuel acceded at the age of four on the death of his brother, Francis Hyacinth, who had reigned as duke for a year. Charles Emmanuel’s minority ended in 1648, but he did not truly rule until the death of his regent mother in 1653. In 1655 and again in 1663–64, shocking Protestant Europe, he waged a ...(100 of 141 words)

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