Prince Giuseppe, Count of Asti

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| name= Prince Giuseppe

| title= Count of Asti

| image=Giuseppe Benedetto, Count of Moriana - Convitto Nazionale Canopoleno.png

| caption=Prince Giuseppe, Count of Asti.

| full name=Giuseppe Benedetto Maria Placido di Savoia

| father = Victor Amadeus III

| mother = Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain

| house = House of Savoy

| birth_date = 5 October 1766

| birth_place = Royal Palace of Turin, Turin

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1802|10|29|1766|10|5}}

| death_place = Palazzo Carcassona, Sardinia

| burial_place = Cathedral of Alghero, Sardinia

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Giuseppe of Savoy (Giuseppe Benedetto Maria Placido; 5 October 1766 – 29 October 1802) was a prince of Savoy. He was styled the Count of Moriana from birth but was later created the Count of Asti.{{cite web|url=http://www.sardimpex.com/sito%20in%20costruzione/Savoia/savoia3.htm|title= Savoia|accessdate= 2010-08-26|last=|first= }}

Biography

Prince Giuseppe born at the Royal Palace of Turin, he was styled the Count of Moriana from birth. He was the youngest child of Victor Amadeus of Savoy (then styled as the "Duke of Savoy") and his wife, Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain. To escape the threat of Napoleon I, Montferrat fled to Sardinia with his brothers the Duke of Aosta and Charles Felix of Sardinia where the trio lived in the Palazzo Carcassona.Memorie di religione, di morale e di letteratura, Eredi Soliani, 1833, p 115

In June 1799 his brother Charles Emmanuel IV created his brother Maurice, the Governor of the province of Sassari but he later died of malaria on the island in 1799.Bertolotti, Davide: Istoria della R. Casa di Savoia, Antonio Fontana, Turin, 1830, p 289 At the death of Montferrat, Asti became governor of Sassari in his brother's place. Catching malaria in 1802, Asti died of the disease having had a fit of convulsions and was buried at the Cathedral of Alghero.Cibrario. Luigi: Origine e progressi delle instituzioni della monarchia di Savoia: sino alla costituzione del regno d'Italia, Parts 1-2, Cellini e c., 1869, p 450 His other brother Genoa later became the viceroy of Sardinia.

Ancestry

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|1= 1. Giuseppe of Savoy

|2= 2. Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia

|3= 3. Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain

|4= 4. Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia

|5= 5. Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg

|6= 6. Philip V of Spain

|7= 7. Elisabeth Farnese

|8= 8. Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia