The capital of Montferrat, Casale Monferrato, was the scene of great celebration at his birth in his honour.

[2] As a royal prince, he received an appanage of 20 Million Piedmont scudo.

[3] To escape the threat of Napoleon I, the duke of Montferrat fled to Sardinia with his brothers Victor Emmanuel and Charles Felix where the trio lived in the Palazzo Carcassona.

In June 1799 his brother Charles Emmanuel created him Governor of the province of Sassari.

His younger brother Giuseppe, Count of Asti also died of malaria in 1802.