Humbert Ier of Italy
Humbert Ier (in Italian Umberto ), born the March 14th 1844, dead the July 29th 1900, of the House of Savoy, is king d' Italie the January 9th 1878 until its death. It is wire of Victor-Emmanuel II, king d' Italie, and of Adélaïde of Austria.
It loses his mother at the 11 years age. A little later his/her father becomes king d' Italie (1861). The courses of Europe are reticent to give their daughters in marriage to a house which they regard as traitor and parvenu since it drove out the other sovereigns of their Italian fields. Victor-Emmanuel II tries to be reconciled with the Austria and it is vaguely question of marrying Humbert with the girl of the archduke Albert of Austria, Mathilde. Unfortunately this one dies accidentally in 1867.
Humbert then marries with Turin the April 22nd 1868 her cousin German Marguerite of Savoy (1851 † 1926), girl of Ferdinand of Savoy, duke of Genoa, and Elisabeth of Saxony. (A cook gives its first name to the Pizza Margherita).
They have only one son:
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Victor-Emmanuel III (1869 † 1947)
Humbert with the intelligence to be made call Humbert Ier of Italy and not Humbert IV of Savoy, outstanding by there the unification of all Italy under its name. He plays his part of constitutional monarch whereas the Italian Left wing occupies the capacity, with Depretis and Francesco Crispi.
He dies assassinated of three blows of revolver, with Monza by the anarchistic Gaetano Bresci which wanted to thus avenge the bloody repression carried out against the workmen to Milan in 1898.
Its skin is buried with the the Pantheon of Rome.
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