Marquis

Marquess

A marquess or marquis is a nobleman of hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The term is also used to translate equivalent oriental styles, as in imperial China, Japan, and Vietnam...

 Raffaele Luigi de Ferrari, Prince of Lucedio, Duke of Galliera, (July 6, 1803 - 23 November 1876) was an Italian

Italy

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 philanthropist and politician.

Raffaele was born at Genoa

Genoa

Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

 from an aristocratic family, he was a senator of the Kingdom of Sardinia

Kingdom of Sardinia

The Kingdom of Sardinia consisted of the island of Sardinia first as a part of the Crown of Aragon and subsequently the Spanish Empire , and second as a part of the composite state of the House of Savoy . Its capital was originally Cagliari, in the south of the island, and later Turin, on the...

 and had the title of Duke of Galliera

Duke of Galliera

The Duke of Galliera was an Italian noble title created in 1812 by Emperor Napoleon I of France for Josephine of Leuchtenberg, daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais, on the occasion of her marriage with Oscar, Crown Prince of Sweden...

 from 18 September 1838 at the behest of Pope Gregory XVI

Pope Gregory XVI

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. The title was recognized by King Charles Albert of Sardinia

Charles Albert of Sardinia

Charles Albert 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...

 on 18 July 1843, he was also created Prince of Lucedio.

Raffaele made his economic fortune in Paris

Paris

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, where he live most of the time.

Marriage and family

He married in 1828 to Maria Brignole-Sale (1811–1888), daughter of Marquis Antoine Brignole-Sale and Marquise Arthemisa Negrone de Gênes.

They had three children:

• Livia (1828–1829)
• Andrea (1831–1847)
• Philip
  Philipp von Ferrary
  Philip Ferrari de La Renotière, Duke of Gallièra was a legendary stamp collector, assembling probably the most complete worldwide collection that ever existed, or is likely to exist...
  
   (1850–1917), an eccentric stamp collector, which at the death of his father, refused to inherit his fortune and the title of Duke which he was entitled.

Duke of Galliera

His biographical profile as a politician and patron is traced in the memorial service made to the Senate on 27 December 1876. In it he remembered how in 1837 he acquired by Prince Oscar

Oscar I of Sweden

Oscar I was King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death. When, in August 1810, his father Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was elected Crown Prince of Sweden, Oscar and his mother moved from Paris to Stockholm . Oscar's father was the first ruler of the current House of Bernadotte...

, who later became King of Sweden, and his wife Josephine of Leuchtenberg

Josephine of Leuchtenberg

Joséphine of Leuchtenberg was Queen consort of Sweden and Norway as the wife of King Oscar I...

 (daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais

Eugène de Beauharnais

Eugène Rose de Beauharnais, Prince Français, Prince of Venice, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy, Hereditary Grand Duke of Frankfurt, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg and 1st Prince of Eichstätt ad personam was the first child and only son of Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la...

), all possessions which Emperor Napoleon I of France

Napoleon I of France

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...

 granted in 1812.

Honours

• Grand Officer of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
  Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
  The Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus is an order of chivalry awarded by the House of Savoy, the heads of which were formerly Kings of Italy...
  
  , 13 January 1856.
• Grand Cordon of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
  Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
  The Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus is an order of chivalry awarded by the House of Savoy, the heads of which were formerly Kings of Italy...
  
  , 3 August 1862.
• Knight of the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation
  Order of the Most Holy Annunciation
  The Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation is an order of chivalry, or knighthood, originating in mediæval Italy. It eventually was the pinnacle of the honours system in the Kingdom of Italy, which ceased to be a national order when the kingdom became a republic in 1946...
  
  , 8 December 1875.
• Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy
  Order of the Crown of Italy
  The Order of the Crown of Italy was founded as a national order in 1868 by King Vittorio Emanuele II, to commemorate the unification of Italy in 1861...