Amédée IV of Savoy

Amédée IV of Savoy , born with Montmélian in 1197, died with Montmélian in 1253 was count de Savoie, of Aoste and Maurienne 1233 with 1253. It was wire of Thomas I {{er}}, count de Savoie, of Aoste and Maurienne, and Marguerite (or Beatrice) of Geneva.

Partisan of the emperor Frederic II in the fight of this last against the Papacy, it accepted from this last the titles of counts d' Aoste and Chablais. He extended his fields towards the Viennese, the Bresse and the Lyonese, but also towards Piedmont, Ligurie and the French-speaking Switzerland. He however failed to seize Turin.

Marriages and descent

He married in first weddings in 1222 Anne of Burgundy (1192 † 1243), girl of Hugues III, duke of Burgundy and Agnes of Lorraine. They had:

Beatrice († 1259), married in 1233 with Manfred III, marquis de Saluces († 1244), then in 1247 with Manfred (1232 † 1266), king de Sicile
Marguerite († 1254), married in 1235 with Boniface II († 1253), marquis de Montferrat, then Aymar III of Poitiers († 1277), count de Valentinois

Widower, it remarie in 1244 with Cecile of Beams († 1275), girl of Barral, lord of the Beams, Viscount of Marseilles, and Sibyl of Anduze. They had:

Boniface (1244 † 1263), count de Savoie of Aoste and Maurienne
Beatrice († 1292), married to Pierre de Chalon († 1272), lord of Chatelbelin, then in 1274 in Jean-Emmanuel (1234 † 1283), infant of Castille, lord of Penafiel, Escalona and Villena.
Eléonore, married in 1269 in Guichard de Beaujeu
Constancy, listed in 1263

Sources

Files of Savoy
Genealogy of the house of Savoy

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