Charles Albert of Sardinia |Reign||27 April 1831 – 23 March
1849| |Successor||Victor Emmanuel II| |Spouse||Maria Theresa of
Austria| |Victor Emmanuel II of Italy Ferdinand, Duke of Genoa
|Carlo Alberto Amedeo di Savoia| |House||House of Savoy|
|Father||Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano| |Mother||Maria
Christina of Saxony| 2 October 1798| Palazzo Carignano, Kingdom
of Piedmont-Sardinia |Died||28 July 1849 Porto, Kingdom of
Portugal |Burial||Basilica of Superga, Turin| Charles Albert
(Carlo Alberto Amedeo; 2 October 1798 – 28 July 1849) was the
King of Piedmont-Sardinia from 1831 to 1849. He succeeded his
distant cousin Charles Felix, and his name is bound with the
first Italian statute and the First War of Independence
(1848–49). He abdicated after his forces were defeated by the
Austrian army at the Battle of Novara (1849), and died in exile
soon thereafter. He was born in Turin in 1798, to Charles
Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano and Maria Cristina of Saxony. His
father was a fifth-generation descendant of