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...

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...

Louis I (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...

Kingdom of Jerusalem. The family lived in Allaman Castle, Vaud/Switzerland and as Count de Vaud, Savoy tried to conquer the Duchy of Milan, then under the...

Barony to Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy, which united Vaud to Savoy. She was born to Louis II of Vaud and Isabelle, daughter of John I, lord of Arlay. She...

1285. Savoy fell to Louis's brother Amadeus V, who was forced to recognise Louis's possession of all the territories in the pays de Vaud formerly held by...

1279), son of Thierry III, Count of Montbéliard Adeline (died c. 1278), married Louis of Savoy (died 1302), baron of Vaud Dukes of Lorraine family tree...

Savoy in 1285 which led to the creation of the Barony of Vaud, entrusted to Louis I of Vaud. He built the episcopal castles of Bulle and Lucens; he acquired...

France. In 1340, he married Catherine (d. 1388), the daughter of Louis II, Baron de Vaud. They had no children; one illegitimate son, Jean du Bois, Lord...

Écoles industrielle et commerciale et du collège mathématique du canton de Vaud. In 1906 he founded the Bulletin d'Astronomie of the University of Lausanne...

death. His mother was Catherine of Savoy († 1388), daughter of Louis II of Savoy, baron of Vaud, and Isabella of Châlon. His rule as marquis of Namur was a...

Louis wrote to the French prime minister, Édouard Daladier, offering to serve in the French Army. His offer was refused, and so he assumed the nom de...

Louis XI. He later would claim default of the promised dowry, new strongholds, and seized several castles in Bresse and several chief towns of Vaud....

Pays de Vaud, now Switzerland then Savoy. The Famille de Mont held the castle at Mont-le-Grand near Rolle. Better known in English records as Ebulo de Montibus...

largest of all field army corps spaces and included the cantons Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel, Freiburg, Berne and Law. It was bilingual and was mainly in the...

) is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French-speaking canton of Vaud. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway...

comtes de Genevois dans leurs rapports avec la maison de Savoie jusqu'à l'établissement définitif de la domination savoisienne dans la Comté de Vaud: soit...

court and a mint, which minted coins for the lords of Vaud between 1286 and 1350. In 1323 Louis II, granted the so-called mountains of Nyon, i.e. pastures...

76, Swiss military officer and politician, member of the Grand Council of Vaud (2002–2005). Thom Christopher, 84, American actor (One Life to Live, Loving...

was the seventh son of Louis, Duke of Savoy and Anne of Cyprus. In 1460, his father gave him as an appanage the region of Vaud, under the title of Count...

Morges, Vaud, Switzerland, second son of François Simeon Buvelot, postal official, and his wife Jeanne-Louise née Heizer, a school teacher. Louis Buvelot...

1454–1490 Philip of Savoy, Count of Geneva, 1417-1444 Louis I of Vaud, 1250-1302 Louis II of Vaud, c. 1290-1348 Aymon, Lord of Chablais, died 1237 William...

and the Louis of Vaud came to the city's defence. He then ordered the citizens of Fribourg to join the ‘imperial’ host and wrote to Amadeus II ordering...

trade routes alongshore. When Peter II of Savoy gradually extended his rule over the Pays de Vaud (Land of Vaud), he managed to impose road tolls as...

former ruling dynasties, settled at Prangins on the shores of Lake Geneva, in Vaud, Switzerland where, during the Second Empire, he had acquired a piece of...

of Prussia (14 July 1884 – 22 September 1948) was the third son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, by his first wife, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein...

Marguerite of Savoy-Vaud (d. 1313), a daughter of Louis I of Vaud, married with Simon in 1309. 1326, before the death of John II's grandfather, Count John...

March 1352 with Catherine of Savoy, daughter of Louis II of Vaud and Isabella of Châlon. They had: William II (1355–1418), Marquis of Namur John III (d. 1429)...

heiress, Johanna of Hachberg-Sausenberg (Jehanne de Hochberg), and her husband, Louis I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville, inherited it in 1504, after which...

historian Charles Guillaume Loys de Bochat (1695–1754) and the philosopher JP de Crousaz (1663–1750), were working the Vaud region, which was at the time...