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The Kingdom of Italy (Italian: Regno d'Italia; French: Royaume d'Italie) was a kingdom in Northern Italy (formerly the Italian Republic) that was a client state of Napoleon's French Empire. It was fully influenced by revolutionary France and ended with Napoleon's defeat and fall.
Above the imperial eagle rises a Napoleonic star. The eagle is surrounded by a green mantle that is lined with ermine and surmounted by a royal crown in gold. [5] A more complete heraldic description of the arms of the Kingdom of Italy is as follows. Tierced per pale: [6]
Napoleon I (1769–1821), Emperor of the French, second son of Carlo Buonaparte Arms as Nobile, 1769-1804: Arms used in right of France, 1804-1814: Azure, an Eagle Or, head facing to the sinister, clutching in its talons a Thunderbolt Or. [1] [2] Arms used in right of the Kingdom of Italy, 1805-1813: Arms used in right of Elba, 1814-1815:
For gratitude, the former Jacobin veteran delivered to the King of Sardinia the only remaining Napoleonic Eagle which survived the ritual of 1814. This eagle is now preserved inside the Museo del Risorgimento in Milan. In 1859 General Lechi returned to Milan, now an Italian city liberated from the Austrians, where he died in 1866 at the age of 88.
The shield is charged with an escutcheon showing the Iron Crown of Lombardy (with pinnacles) in a red border with silver rings. Around the shield is the order of the Legion d'Honneur. Above the eagle rises the Napoleonic star. Date: 1805-1814: Source: Own work by uploader, Based on: File:Italia,1806.(TZ).jpg: Author: Sodacan: Permission ...
In the same year, after Napoleon had crowned himself as the first French Emperor, the Italian Republic was transformed into the first Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy (1805–1814), or Italico, under his direct rule. The flag of the Kingdom of Italy was that of the Republic in rectangular form, charged with the golden Napoleonic eagle. [11]
An eagle of the Imperial Guard on display at Le Louvre des Antiquaires in Paris. The French Imperial Eagle (French: Aigle de drapeau, lit. ' flag eagle ') refers to the figure of an eagle on a staff carried into battle as a standard by the Grande Armée of Napoleon I during the Napoleonic Wars.
Giovanni Gronchi, President of Italy, 1955–1962 No arms known Arms of Antonio Segni, President of Italy, 1962–1964 Ancestral arms: Or, a cross Azure. On a chief Or, an Eagle displayed Sable Crest: the coronet of an Italian Patrician proper As a Knight of the Papal Supreme Order of Christ, he bore the arms: