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Prince Aimone, 4th Duke of Aosta (''Aimone Roberto Margherita Maria Giuseppe Torino''; 9 March 1900 – 29 January 1948) was a prince of Italy's reigning House of Savoy and an officer of the Royal Italian Navy. The second son of Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta he was granted the title Duke of Spoleto on 22 September 1904. He inherited the title Duke of Aosta on 3 March 1942 following the death of his brother Prince Amedeo, in a British prisoner of war camp in Nairobi. From 18 May 1941 to 31 July 1943 he was designated king of the Independent State of Croatia, though he never ruled there. He formally accepted the position and took the name Tomislav II after the first Croatian king.〔dr. Marijan Rogić, Pod Zvonimirovom krunom (Under the crown of Zvonimir) Munchen 2008.〕〔Hrvoje Matković, Designirani hrvatski kralj Tomislav II. vojvoda od Spoleta. Povijest hrvatskotalijanskih odnosa u prvoj polovici XX.st. (Designated Croatian king Tomislav II, Duke of Spoleto. History of Croatian-Italian relationships in first half of the 20th century), Zagreb 2007.〕 Later however he refused to assume the kingship in opposition to the Italian annexation of the Dalmatia region,〔Rodogno, Davide; Fascism's European empire: Italian occupation during the Second World War; p.95; Cambridge University Press, 2006 ISBN 0-521-84515-7 "''Devoid of political experience and ignorant of the Italian government's exact intentions, he ''(Duke Aimone ) ''refused to leave for Croatia, saying so in letters to Victor Emmanuel and Mussolini, in which he told them that the question of Dalmatia, 'a land that could never be Italianized', was an obstacle against any reconciliation with the Croats. Never, he declared, would he agree to be a king of a nation amputated from Italy.''" ().〕 and is therefore referred to in some sources as king designate.〔Pavlowitch, Stevan K.; ''Hitler's new disorder: the Second World War in Yugoslavia''; p.289; Columbia University Press, 2008 0-231-70050-4 ()〕〔Massock, Richard G.; ''Italy from Within''; p.306; READ BOOKS, 2007 ISBN 1-4067-2097-6 ()〕〔Burgwyn, H. James; ''Empire on the Adriatic: Mussolini's conquest of Yugoslavia 1941-1943''; p.39; Enigma, 2005 ISBN 1-929631-35-9〕〔Royal Institute of International Affairs; ''Enemy Countries, Axis-Controlled Europe''; Kraus International Publications, 1945 ISBN 3-601-00016-4 ()〕 Regardless, many sources refer to him as Tomislav II (), King of Croatia (named after the medieval Croatian King Tomislav) and the nominal head of the NDH during its first two years (1941–1943). After the dismissal of Mussolini on 25 July 1943, the prince abdicated on 31 July as king on the orders of Victor Emmanuel III. ==Early life== Prince Aimone Roberto Margherita Maria Giuseppe Torino of Savoy-Aosta was born in Turin the second son of Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta (eldest son of Prince Amedeo, 1st Duke of Aosta (and sometime "King Amadeo I of Spain") by his wife, ''née'' Vittoria dal Pozzo, Principessa della Cisterna) and Princess Hélène of Orléans (daughter of Philippe, comte de Paris and Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans). As his patrilinal great-grandfather was King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, he is a member of the House of Savoy. On 22 September 1904, he was given the title Duke of Spoleto for life.〔(The Peerage )〕 On 1 April 1921, Prince Aimone became a member of the Italian Senate. Princes of the House of Savoy became members of the Senate at age 21, obtaining the right to vote at age 25. In 1929, twenty years after his uncle Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi had attempted to climb K2 in Karakorum, Prince Aimone led an expedition to Karakorum. A member of the expedition was Ardito Desio. Due to the failure to climb K2 twenty years earlier, Prince Aimone's expedition concentrated solely on scientific work.〔(K2 - The Savage Mountain )〕〔(K2 2004 - 50 years later )〕 He was afterwards awarded the 1932 Royal Geographical Society's Patron's Gold Medal for his work.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=List of Past Gold Medal Winners ) 〕 After being romantically linked with Infanta Beatriz of Spain the daughter of King Alfonso XIII, he married on 1 July 1939 in Florence with Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark the daughter of King Constantine I and Princess Sophie of Prussia. They had one son : * Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (b. 1943) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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