The titles of the Count of Savoy, and then Duke of Savoy, are titles of nobility attached to the historical territory of Savoy. Since its creation, in...
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Savoyard state (redirect from Savoy States)
term of art used by historians to denote collectively all of the states ruled by the counts and dukes of Savoy from the Middle Ages to the formation of the...
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Philip (category Given names of Greek language origin)
III of Navarre Philip of Swabia, King of Germany (r. 1198–1208) and Duke of Swabia Philip I, Count of Savoy (1207–1285) Philip II, Duke of Savoy (1438–1497)...
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Illustrated History of France (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 124. ISBN 0-521-43294-4. Titles of the counts and dukes of Anjou in the 11-16th...
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(Italian: Umberto Biancamano), was the count of Savoy from 1032 until his death and the founder of the House of Savoy. Of obscure origins, his service to the...
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ruled Aumale, through their claims to be dukes of Normandy and later, kings of France. The title of Count or Duke of Aumale was granted several times during...
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1383 – 7 January 1451), nicknamed the Peaceful, was Count of Savoy from 1391 to 1416 and Duke of Savoy from 1416 to 1440. He was a claimant to the papacy...
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Duke of Aosta Counts of Villafranca Duke of Genoa List of rulers of Savoy List of consorts of Savoy County of Savoy Duchy of Savoy Kingdom of Sardinia...
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Hautecombe Abbey (redirect from Abbey of Hautecombe)
centuries the Counts and Dukes of Savoy were buried. Count Humbert III, known as "Blessed", and his wife Anne were interred there in the latter part of the 12th...
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Chillon Castle (redirect from Château of Chillon)
James of Saint George, who is believed also to have added similar windows to Harlech Castle in Wales at a later date. The counts and dukes of Savoy used...
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Royal domain Louise of Savoy (1476–1531) - wife of Charles, Count of Angoulême from 1488. Marie Thérèse of France (1778–1851) - wife of Louis Antoine from...
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Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, OSV Publishing, 2003. ISBN 9781931709750. ""The Early Dukes of Savoy", American Delegation of Savoy Orders". Archived from...
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and three temporal, and the dukes all ranked above the counts. The Prince-Bishops with ducal territories included: The Archbishop of Reims, styled archevêque-duc...
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Emperor elevated Amadeus from Count to Duke of Savoy. Mary duly became Duchess. From then onwards Dukes ruled over Savoy. The couple were married for thirty-six...
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leader and magnate. He was the father of the penultimate Duchess of Savoy and of a Queen of Portugal. He was the son of Henri of Savoy, 3rd Duke of Nemours...
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Honour of Richmond. The house the Count of Savoy built there later became the home of Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, and his descendants, the Dukes of Lancaster...
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Duke of Savoy for a brief reign from 1496 to 1497. Philip was the granduncle of the previous duke Charles II, and the youngest surviving son of Duke Louis...
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1152 and held by the Zähringer dukes until 1218. As a result, they are sometimes referred to as 'Dukes of Burgundy', although the existing Duchy of Burgundy...
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medieval hunting grounds of the Counts and Dukes of Savoy which are now surrounded by high walls and cut through with a web of wide allées. Its chateau...
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was Duke of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from 4 October 1638 until his death in 1675 and under regency of his mother Christine of France until...
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appointed Hugh, Duke of Burgundy, as its first margrave. At the time, the premier counts in the region were the counts of Arles and those of Avignon. Those...
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Italian nobility (redirect from Peerage of Italy)
kings of Sardinia (1720–1861), dukes of Savoy (1416–1861), lords and princes of Piedmont (1233–1416), counts of Savoy (1032–1416), marquises of Turin...
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1465) was Duke of Savoy from 1440 until his death in 1465. Louis was born at Geneva the son of Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy and Mary of Burgundy; he was...
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branch of the dukes of Genoa. Prince Amedeo of Savoy was born in Turin, then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia. He was the third child and second son of King...
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Victor Amadeus II (redirect from Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, King of Sardinia)
was the head of the House of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from 12 June 1675 until his abdication in 1730. He was the first of his house to acquire...
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Louis of Savoy (1615 – 16 September 1641) was Count of Geneva, Duke of Nemours, and Duke of Aumale from the death of his father Henry of Savoy in 1632...
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Guiscard 1057–59 Dukes Robert Guiscard 1059–85 Roger I Borsa 1085–1111 William II 1111–27 In 1127 the duchy passed to the count of Sicily. It was thereafter...
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Duke of Savoy from 1497 until his death. Born in Pont-d'Ain, Philibert was the son of Philip (Filippo) the Landless and his first wife Marguerite of Bourbon...
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(Nemours, Bresse), the Savoy dukes found that this inhibited their own aggrandizement while encouraging intra-dynastic strife and regional secession. Not...
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Maurice of Savoy-Carignano (French: Eugène Maurice de Savoie-Carignan; 2 March 1635 – 6 June 1673) was a Franco-Italian nobleman and general. A Count of Soissons...
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