Amadeus I, Count of Savoy
Amadeus I (c. 1016 – c. 1051), nicknamed of the Tail or la Coda (Latin caudatus, "tailed"), was an early count of the
Emperor Henry III at Verona in 1046, he refused to enter the emperor's chambers without his large train of knights, his "tail".[1]
Amadeus is first attested in a document of 8 April 1022, when, along with his younger brother
Abbey of Savigny
.
The first record of Amadeus's marriage and use of the comital title ("count", Latin comes) comes from a single document dated 22 October 1030. On that date, at
Echelles to the church of Saint-Laurence in Grenoble. There is no notice of Amadeus's activities for the following decade, and his last action was recorded on 10 December 1051. In this document, he is called "Count of Belley" (comes Bellicensium), but it is almost certainly the same Count Amadeus as the son of Humbert I.[1]
According to fourteenth-century sources, Amadeus died shortly after 1051 and was buried in
Counts of Geneva. He was succeeded by his brother Otto in the countship.[1]
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