Prince Amedeo | |||||
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Duke of Aosta | |||||
In office 4 July 1931 – 3 March 1942 | |||||
Preceded by | Emanuele Filiberto | ||||
Succeeded by | Aimone | ||||
![]() 3rd Governor-General of Italian East Africa 3rd Viceroy of Italian Ethiopia | |||||
In office 21 December 1937 – 19 May 1941 | |||||
Monarch | Victor Emmanuel III | ||||
Minister of the Colonies | Benito Mussolini Attilio Teruzzi | ||||
Preceded by | Rodolfo Graziani | ||||
Succeeded by | Pietro Gazzera (acting) | ||||
Born | Turin, Kingdom of Italy | 21 October 1898||||
Died | 3 March 1942 Nairobi, Kenya Colony | (aged 43)||||
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House | Savoy | ||||
Father | Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta | ||||
Mother | Princess Hélène of Orléans | ||||
Prince Amedeo, 3rd Duke of Aosta (Amedeo Umberto Isabella Luigi Filippo Maria Giuseppe Giovanni di Savoia-Aosta; 21 October 1898 – 3 March 1942) was the third Duke of Aosta and a first cousin once removed of the King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III. During World War II, he was the Italian Viceroy of Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana, or AOI).