Amédée III of Savoy

Amédée III of Savoy or of Savoy-Maurienne , born in 1095 and died in 1148 at the time of the Second crusade.

7th Count de Savoie and of Maurienne (1103 - 1148), with died of his/her father, and marquis de Suze;
wire of Humbert II of Savoy says “Reinforced”, (n. ap. 1065 - 1103), and of its wife Gisele of Burgundy (1075 - m. ap. 1133), girl of Guillaume I {{er}} Large the, count de Bourgogne and of Mâcon.

This count increased a certain number of titles, with however a tendency to the exaggeration and usurpation:

because of the possessions of the House of Savoy in Piedmont, it granted the title of “duke in Lombardy”;
because of filiation of his/her mother and her marriage with the girl of the count de Bourgogne Guillaume Large the, it granted the title of “duke in Burgundy”;
owing to the fact that the Maison of Savoy had, since the emperor Conrad Salic the, a right of government on the Chablais, it took pretext of a bad administration of the imperial lieutenant to seize the provinces of the Chablais, then of the Vallée of Aoste, and to grant the title of “duke of Chablais”;
it would also seem, that he continued to carry unduly the title of Vicaire of the empire - nonhereditary title - which had been decreed with his/her father by the emperor Henri IV.

Skilful, it helped with the rebirth of the Abbaye of Saint-Maurice d' Agaune, in whom the kings of the two Burgundies were made crown, he was the laic abbot (1103 - 1147). It based also the Abbaye of Saint-Sulpice in Bugey, the Abbaye of Tamié in the Massif of the Wallows and the Abbaye of Hautecombe, on escarpée bank of the Lac of Le Bourget.

His first wife Adelaide, did not give him children. In 1123, it married Mahaut d' Albon or Mathilde , (n. v. 1110 - m. ap. 1145), which was the sister of Guigues IV of Albon, which gave him four boys and six girls, of which:

# Alix of Savoy or Elects (n. v. 1123 - ?), wife Humbert III of Beaujeu (n. ap. 1107 - 1174).

# Mathilde of Savoy or Mahaut (1125 - 1158), wife Alphone I {{er}} of Portugal

# Agnes of Savoy (1125 - 1172), wife of the count Guillaume I {{er}} of Geneva

# Humbert III of Savoy (1136 - 1188) known as “Happy”

# Jean of Savoy

# Pierre of Savoy

# Guillaume of Savoy

# Marguerite of Savoy (? - 1157)

# Isabelle of Savoy

# Julienne of Savoy (? - 1194), abbess of St.André-le-Haut

In 1128, Amédée III increases its field while adding to its government - what one called the “Chablais Old man” - the area extending from the Arve until the Dranse d' Abondance, thus forming “New Chablais”, whose Saint-Maurice was the capital.

The marriage with the sister of the Dolphin, did not prevent it from going guerroyer against him for stories of delimitations of border. It is at the time of a battle close to Montmélian that Guigues IV was mortally wounded. Following this episode, the desired king of France to confiscate its states, his/her sister to him Adele of Savoy (n. v. 1100 - 1154), wife of the king, was also for. Finally it had its safety, only with the intercession of Pierre the Hermit, after having made the promise to take part in the crusade in preparation.

In 1147, it thus left to the sides its nephew, the king Louis VII of France and of Aliénor of Aquitaine to the Second crusade, it financed its forwarding, thanks to a loan of the Abbaye of Saint-Maurice d' Agaune. In this adventure, it was accompanied by many Savoyard gentlemen, of which the baron of the Faucigny and his/her son, barons of Seyssel, the Room, Miolans, Montbel, lords of Thoire, Montmayeur, Vienna, Viry, the Fen, Blonay, Chevron the Villette, Chignin and Châtillon.

He died in Nicosie in the island of Cyprus the August 30th, 1148 and was buried in the church Holy-Cross of Nicosie.

The Amédée bishop of Lausanne (Holy Amédée de Clermont, known as of Lausanne) (n. v. 1110 - 1159) became the tutor of its son Humbert III of Savoy.

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