Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy
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Amadeus VII (24 February 1360 – 1 November 1391),Count of Savoy from 1383 to 1391.[2]
Biography
Amadeus was born in
Bishop of Sion, Amadeus led an army that attacked and pillaged Sion.[1] In 1388, he acquired territories in eastern Provence and the port city of Nice, thus giving the County of Savoy access to the Mediterranean Sea.[1]
Amadeus died from
Amadeus VIII, to his own mother, a sister of the powerful Duke de Bourbon, instead of following the tradition of appointing the child's mother, who was a daughter of the equally powerful Duke de Berry.[4] Due to the dispute between his mother and his wife, rumours that Amadeus had been poisoned emerged soon after his death.[1] It took three months of negotiations to restore peace in the family.[4]
Amadeus was known for his hospitality, for he would entertain people of all stations and never turned a person from his table without a meal.[5]
Marriage and children
Amadeus married Bonne of Berry, daughter of John, Duke of Berry, who was the younger brother of King Charles V of France.[6] They had three children:
- Antipope Felix V, married Mary of Burgundy (1380–1422), daughter of Philip the Bold.[6]
- Bonne (d. 1432), married Louis of Piedmont, the final of the Savoy-Achaea Branch.
- Joan (d. 1460), married marquis of Montferrat.
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Bernard Andenmatten: Amadeus VII of Savoy in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 8 June 2022.
- ^ "Amadeus VII." The Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 3 August 2012
- ^ European Cases of the Reincarnation Type By Ian Stevenson, M.D., p. 19.
- ^ a b Tuchman 1978, p. 503.
- ^ Tuchman 1978, p. 426.
- ^ a b Vaughan 2002, p. 53.
References
- Cox, Eugene L. (1967). The Green Count of Savoy. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. LCCN 67-11030.
- Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim (1978). A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. New York: Knopf.
- Vaughan, Richard (2002). Philip the Bold: The Formation of the Burgundian State. Boydell Press.
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