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Emmanuel Philibert (Italian: Emanuele Filiberto; Piedmontese: Emanuel Filibert; 8 July 1528 – 30 August 1580), known as Testa di ferro (Piedmontese: Testa 'd fer; "Ironhead", because of his military career), was Duke of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from 17 August 1553 until his death in 1580.
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Emmanuel Philibert was the duke of Savoy who recovered most of the lands his father Charles III had lost to France and Spain. A skilled soldier and a wily diplomat, he was also an able administrator who restored economic equilibrium to Savoy while freeing it from foreign occupation.
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Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy (16 April 1588 – 4 August 1624) was the third son of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and was Viceroy of Sicily between 1622 and 1624.
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Emanuele Filiberto was born in Geneva, Switzerland, the only child of Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, a claimant to the headship of the House of Savoy, and his wife, Marina Doria, a Swiss former water ski champion. Through his paternal grandmother, Marie-José of Belgium, Emanuele Filberto is a second cousin of King Philippe of Belgium and Gran...
Emanuele Filiberto is, by strict primogeniture in the male-line, the heir apparent of the House of Savoy, Italy's former ruling dynasty. In June 2006 his distant cousin Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta, declared himself to be head of the house and rightful Duke of Savoy, maintaining that Vittorio Emanuele had forfeited his dynastic rights when he married ...
Known as 'Testa di ferro' or 'Ironhead' because of his military prowess, Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy was a skilled political strategist and one-time suitor to Lady Elizabeth Tudor, later Queen Elizabeth I.
Emmanuel Philibert (āmän´wĕl fēlēbĕr´), 1528–80, duke of Savoy (1553–80), called Ironhead. He succeeded his father, Charles III, who had been dispossessed of his duchy by Francis I of France and the Swiss in 1536.
This portrait, by an unknown Spanish artist of the sixteenth century, is traditionally identified as Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy. Known as 'Testa di ferro' or 'Ironhead' because of his military prowess, the Duke was a skilled political strategist and one-time suitor to Lady Elizabeth Tudor, later Queen Elizabeth I.
