Seigniory of Miolans

The Seigneurie of Miolans is a medieval seigniory located in the Combe of Savoy, in the province of the Savoy Propre, dependant on the counts de Savoie. It was one of the " more big families of the medieval Savoy after the counts and the Seyssel ". This stronghold corresponds today to the ex-commune of Miolans, attached since to Saint-Pierre-with Albigny.

Weapons

Blazon: " Bandaged of gold and mouths of six parts ".

History

The family of Miolans appeared towards XIe with the assertion of a capacity starting from the castle of Miolans, controlling the alpine axis between Aoste and France, via the Col of the Small-Saint-Bernard. She controls almost all the territory of the combe of Savoy.

Jacques I is made knight about Savoy by the duke Amédée VIII of Savoy, about 1420. Charged with an embassy in Palestine, it brings back a piece of the Holy-Cross and three spines of the crown of the Jesus-Christ, preserved in the vault of the castle (transferred today in the church from Saint-Pierre-in Albigny).

August 27th, 1486, the duke of Savoy Charles 1 {{er}} allots the châtellenie Steps and its castle in Gilberte de Polignac, marries of Anthelme de Miolans of (1487 to 1522).

The counts of Savoy could oblige them to pay homage to them only as vicars of the Germanic Roman Holy roman Empire.

The dynasty of Miolans is extinct in 1523, at the time of the French occupation of Savoy. With the disappearance of Miolans, the title passes between the hands of the marquis de Cardé Piedmont and the castle in those of the dukes of Savoy.

House and personalities

Aimon I of Miolans, bishop of Maurienne in 1276, barons d' Ermence, lords of Fretérive, Saint-Pierre d' Albigny, Cruet, Arbin and Midsummer's Day of the Door.
Aimon II of Miolans, bishop of Maurienne in 1308, lord of Urtières, the lords de Miolans.
Jacques I of Miolans (XVe), Knight
Anthelme de Miolans (1487-1489), Knight
D. Claude Jacques de Miolans (1496-1497), Knight
Louis de Miolans (1497-1513), Knight
Jacques III of Miolans (1513-1523), Knight, Baron of Miolans, Saint-Pierre-with Albigny, Fréterive, Saint-Jean-of-the-Carries, of Greisy and Croet, Count de Montmayeur (Villard-Sallet), Baron d' Armance, Chevalier of the Ordre of Annonciade in 1519
Urbain de Miolans, religious Benedictine, bishop of Valence and Dié, was indicated by the duke Charles III for the seat of Chambéry in 1515.
Baron Anselme de Miolans, governor of the town of Geneva in 1339
Louis de Miolans, marshal of Savoy, towards 1510

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