The Barony of Vaud was an appanage of the County of Savoy, corresponding roughly to the modern Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It was created by a process...

Vaud (/voʊ/ VOH; French: (Canton de) Vaud, pronounced [kɑ̃tɔ̃ də vo]), more formally the Canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation...

Catherine of Savoy-Vaud (1324—18 June 1388), was an Italian vassal. She was suo jure Baron of Vaud in 1349 – 1359. In 1359, she sold the Barony to Amadeus...

in the hands of Bern. The Treaty also prevented the "Barony of Vaud" from being separated from Savoy in appanage and excluded the Count of Romont forever...

(1249/50 – 1302) was the Baron of Vaud. At the time of his birth he was a younger son of the House of Savoy, but through a series of deaths and his own effective...

shores of Lake Geneva. The university was founded in 1537 as the Schola Lausannensis, one year after Bern annexed the territory of Barony of Vaud from the...

in 1509 or 1510 in Orbe, then in the Barony of Vaud, now in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. He was the son of Guillaume Viret, a tailor and shearer...

brother Louis was awarded the new Barony of Vaud becoming Louis I of Vaud. Through his marriage to Sybilla, Countess of Bugey and Bresse, he was able to...

1515 Battle of Marignano. Only Bern and Fribourg were still able to conquer the Vaud in 1536; the latter primarily became part of the canton of Bern, with...

Edward I of England in the succession to Philip I, Count of Savoy in 1285 which led to the creation of the Barony of Vaud, entrusted to Louis I of Vaud. He...

political unity, and established as the Barony of Vaud. However, as the power of the Savoys declined at the beginning of the 15th century the land was occupied...

throughout the 14th century; the Barony of Vaud was incorporated into Savoy in 1359 and was annexed by Bern only in the context of the Swiss Reformation, in...

municipality in the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It was the seat of the district of Rolle until 2006, when it became part of the district of Nyon. It is located...

Louis II (1283/94 – 1348/49), son of Louis I of Vaud of the House of Savoy, was the Baron of Vaud from 1302 until his death. A military man, he fought...

then had consisted of self-governing cantons united by a loose military alliance (and ruling over subject territories such as Vaud), was invaded by the...

conquest: The canton of Vaud, old county then country of Vaud, depended successively of Burgundy, Zähringen, Savoy until 1536, then of Bern. In this canton...

municipality of Rolle of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. In 1261, the Lords of Mont planned to...

Tory politician. He succeeded to the barony following the death of his elder brother. Clinton was the second son of Robert Trefusis, 17th Baron Clinton...

1840 when the barony of Dublin City was separated from the barony of Dublin. Since 2001, both baronies have been redesignated as the City of Dublin. Dublin...

abbey of Saint Maurice. It was later influenced by the Barony of Coppet, the diocese of Geneva and the Bernese occupation. When the separation of Vaud from...

municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Tannay may have been founded before the town of Coppet, which was first mentioned...

In 1657, he purchased the barony of Coppet in the Swiss region of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva. Back then, Vaud was not yet a separate canton...

great-great-grandson of Francis Trefusis, whose wife Bridget was in remainder to the barony of Clinton through her mother Lady Arabella Rolle, daughter of Theophilus...

le églises du Canton de Vaud. (1807, 120 pdfs) The Liturgy of the French Protestant Church, Translated from the Editions of 1737 and 1772, Published...

Free Imperial Cities, Imperial abbeys, Imperial Knights, Imperial Villages This is a list of states in the Holy Roman Empire beginning with the letter W:...

Villages This is a list of states in the Holy Roman Empire beginning with the letter B: Whilst not part of the empire, the Dukes of Burgundy possessed extensive...

(main), Neuchâtel (pene-exclave), Vaud (exclave), Fribourg (main), Vaud (main), Fribourg (exclave), Vaud (main). Within Vaud, Geneva has a pene-exclave on...

Cities, Imperial abbeys, Imperial Knights, Imperial Villages This is a list of states in the Holy Roman Empire beginning with the letter S: Hans-Walter Herrmann...

of 19 municipalities for a highly urbanised region, which is considered as (half of) one city by most people. Some politicians mock the "19 baronies"...

Count of Savoy and Amadeus of Geneva was the first to swear the oath of fealty. The count of Geneva and the lord of Vaud moved into the Castle of Chambéry...