Thomas III of Piedmont
Count Thomas III (c. 1246 – 16 May 1282), called Thomas of Savoy or de Savoie, was the
He was the eldest son of
Upon the death of his father, Thomas became Count in his paternal estates in Piedmont.When his first cousin
Thomas III, as he was the eldest son and heir of Thomas II, felt an injustice in being surpassed by younger brothers of his father, and claimed unsuccessfully Savoy from his uncles.
Thomas III married in 1274 to Guia of
Philip and Thomas were in dispute much of their reigns 1268–82. Thomas' marriage was a rather unsuccessful attempt to patch up things and get Philip to recognize hims as the successor in Savoy, which would have belonged to Thomas, him being the eldest son of Thomas II and thus the founder of the genealogically senior line of the House of Savoy. Philip's will charged his niece Eleanor of Provence and her son King Edward I of England with the inheritance of Savoy.
Thomas III was fatally wounded in a border dispute with Humbert I of Viennois in 1282.[3]
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