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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Charlemagne, was Count of Savoy from 1263 until his death in 1268. He was also holder of the Honour of Richmond, Yorkshire, England, the Honour of the Eagle...
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    1253) was Count of Savoy from 1233 to 1253. Amadeus was born in Montmélian, Savoy. The legitimate heir of Thomas I of Savoy and Margaret of Geneva, he...
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  • Medici and his wife Philiberta of Savoy in 1515, for Louise of Savoy in 1524, and for Philip of Savoy, Count of Genevois, in 1528. The descendants of Philip...
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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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    Jacques of Savoy, Count of Romont (12 November 1450 – 30 January 1486) was a member of the House of Savoy and military commander during the Burgundian...
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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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    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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    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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    Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg. He was styled the Duke of Savoy from birth until he succeeded to his father's throne. He was the eldest son of his parents and was...
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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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  • 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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    14 September 1632 – 4 October 1638) was Duke of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states under the regency of his mother Christine Marie from 7 October 1637...
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    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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    Saluzzo (redirect from Bishopric of Saluzzo)
    chiefly the Counts (later Dukes) of Savoy. After Manfred II's death, his widow had to accept a series of tributes, which were to be later the base of the House...
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    Prince Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta, 5th Duke of Aosta (Amedeo Umberto Costantino Giorgio Paolo Elena Maria Fiorenzo Zvonimir di Savoia; 27 September 1943 –...
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