Benedetto of Savoy was an Italian nobleman and military leader, who was prince of Savoy and Duke of Chablais.
Background
He was born in the reign of his father Charles Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia. Chablais was born at the Palace of Venaria. He was the youngest child of his father Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia and Élisabeth Thérèse of Lorraine.
His mother died giving birth to him.
Career
He was named after Pope Benedict XIV who became pope the year before his birth. Known alternatively as Benedetto or Maurizio, at the time of his birth, he was third in line to the Sardinian throne after his oldest half brother Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy and Prince Carlo his only full brother who died in infancy. The Emperor wanted the marriage to encourage ties between the House of Lorraine and the House of Habsburg.
In 1753 his father gave what is now the Palazzo Chiablese as his personal residence.
lieutenant was under Savoy that the building would be embellished under the direction of Benedetto Alfieri, a popular Savoyard architect of the era. In 1763 his father made him the Duchy of Chablais (having been styled as such since birth) with the subsidiary lands of Cureggio, Trino, Dezan, Crescentino, Riva di Chieri, Well, Ghemme Pollenzo Tricerro, Apertole Centallo.
In 1764 he also bought the fiefdom of Agliè, where the Ducal Palace of Agliè was situated. Chablais later married Maria Anna of Savoy at the Royal Palace of Turin on 19 March 1775.
The marriage produced no children, Maria Anna dying in 1824.