Editing Victor Amadeus II (section)

==Family and issue==
[[File:Regina Anna Maria di Orléans (1669-1728).JPG|thumb|right|190px|His wife, [[Anne Marie d'Orléans]]]]

His distant relationship with his mother was always strained and has been blamed on her ambition to keep power to herself.{{sfn|Symcox|1983|p=70}} [[Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours|Marie Jeanne]] spent most of her time relegated to state business which she enjoyed and had little time for her only child whom she kept under close supervision in order to make sure he would not try to assume power.{{sfn|Symcox|1983|p=70}} Anne Marie gave her husband six children but also had two stillbirths of each gender, one in 1691 and again in 1697. Three of these children would go on to have further progeny, including the eldest [[Princess Marie Adélaïde of Savoy|Maria Adelaide]], who was the mother of [[Louis XV of France]]. His second daughter [[Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy|Maria Luisa]], known in the family as ''Louison'', would marry [[Philip V of Spain]] in 1701 and was also regent of Spain for various periods. These two marriages were tactics used by [[Louis XIV]] to keep Victor Amadeus close to France prior to the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].{{sfn|Vitelleschi|1905b|p=390}}

Anne Marie would remain a devoted wife. She quietly accepted his extramarital affairs; the longest one being with the famed beauty [[Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes]] by whom he had two children. Jeanne Baptiste was his mistress for eleven years and eventually fled Savoy due to Victor Amadeus' obsession with her. Victor Amadeus subsequently had his daughter with Jeanne Baptiste, [[Maria Vittoria of Savoy|Maria Vittoria]], marry the [[Prince of Carignano]] from which the present [[Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples]] is a direct descendant.{{sfn|Oresko|2004|p=44}} His favourite child was [[Victor Amadeus, Prince of Piedmont|Victor Amadeus]] born in 1699 and given the title [[Prince of Piedmont]] as [[heir apparent]]. The Prince of Piedmont later died in 1715 from [[smallpox]].{{sfn|Oresko|2004|p=40}} Anne Marie died in 1728 after a series of [[heart attack]]s.{{sfn|Vitelleschi|1905b|p=495}}

His relationship with his younger son and eventual successor [[Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy|Charles Emmanuel]] was a cold one and the two were never close.{{sfn|Symcox|1983|p=74}} Victor Amadeus organised the first two marriages of Charles Emmanuel, the first one being to [[Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont|Anne Christine of Sulzbach]], daughter of the [[Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach|Count Palatine of Sulzbach]], which produced a son who died in infancy.{{sfn|Vitelleschi|1905b|p=482}} The second marriage was to [[Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg]], a first cousin of Anne Christine and mother of six children, including the future [[Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia]].{{sfn|Symcox|1983|p=229}}

===Legitimate issue===
* [[Marie Adélaïde of Savoy|Maria Adélaïde of Savoy]] (1685–1712), married [[Louis, Duke of Burgundy]], eldest son of [[Louis, Grand Dauphin]], and had issue including [[Louis XV of France]];
* Maria Anna of Savoy (14 August 1687 – 18 April 1690) died in early childhood;
* [[Maria Luisa of Savoy]] (1688–1714), married [[Philip V of Spain]], second son of [[Louis, Grand Dauphin]], and had issue including two kings of Spain;
* [[Victor Amadeus, Prince of Piedmont|Victor Amadeus of Savoy]] (1699–1715) died unmarried;
* [[Charles Emmanuel III|Charles Emmanuel of Savoy]] (1701–1773), Duke of Savoy then later King of Sardinia;
* Emanuele Philibert of Savoy (1 December 1705 – 19 December 1705), died in infancy;

===Illegitimate issue===
* [[Maria Vittoria of Savoy]] (1690–1766), married [[Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano]] and had issue, later legitimised;
* [[Vittorio Francesco, Marquis of Susa|Vittorio Francesco of Savoy]] (1694–1762), married Maria Lucrezia Franchi di Pont, had no issue, later legitimised.