Louis, Duke of Savoy

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Ludovico I or Louis I (Italian: Lodovico; 24 February 1413 – 29 January 1465) was Duke of Savoy from 1440 until his death in 1465.

Life

Louis was born at

In 1452 he received the Shroud of Turin from Margaret de Charny.^[2] It was held by the House of Savoy until 1946, at the end of the Kingdom of Italy and bequeathed to the Holy See in 1983.

Louis died at Lyon in 1465, while returning from France.

Issue

Louis and Anne had:

1. Amadeus IX (Thonon, 1 February 1435 – 30 March 1472), Duke of Savoy, married Yolande of France^[3]
2. Ripaille
   , 12 July 1482), Count of Geneva, King of Cyprus.
3. Marie (Morges, March 1437 – Thonon, 1 December 1437)
4. Jean (1437?–1440)
5. Torino, 7 November 1497), Duke of Savoy, married Margaret of Bourbon^[3]
6. Pierre II de Luxembourg
   , Count of St. Pol, of Brienne, de Ligny, Marle, and Soissons
7. Pierre (Genève, c. 2 February 1440 –
   Torino
   , 21 October 1458), Archbishop of Tarentasia.
8. Janus (
   Jeanne de Bar, Countess of Marle and Soissons
9. Louis XI of France^[4]
10. Aimon (Genève, 2 November 1442 – Genève, 30 March 1443)
11. Jacques (Genève, 29 November 1444 – Genève 1 June 1445)
12. Agnes (Chambéry, October 1445 – Paris, 16 March 1509), married François d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville. Their son was Louis I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville
13. Jean Louis (Genève, 26 February 1447 – Torino, 4 July 1482), Bishop of Genève^[5]
14. Louis of Luxembourg, Count of St. Pol, of Brienne, de Ligny, and Conversano, Constable of France
15. Bona (Avigliana, 12 August 1449 – Fossano, 17 November 1503), married Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan^[3]
16. Ham in Picardy, 30 January 1486), Count of Romont, Lord of Vaud^[5]
17. Anne (Genève, September 1452 – Genève, 1 October 1452)
18. François (Annecy, 19 August 1454 – Torino 6 October 1490),
    Bishop of Geneva
19. Jeanne (died without alliance, 1455?)

Sources

• Fletcher, Stella (2000). The Longman Companion to Renaissance Europe, 1390–1530. Pearson Education Limited.
• Grendler, Paul F. (2017). The Jesuits and Italian Universities, 1548–1773. The Catholic University of America Press.
• Hand, Joni M. (2013). Women, Manuscripts and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350-1550. Routledge.
• Vaughan, Richard (1975). Valois Burgundy. Penguin Books Ltd.
• Ward, A.W.; Prothero, G.W.; Leathes, Stanley, eds. (1911). The Cambridge Modern History. The Macmillan Company.