Amadeus II, count of Savoy

Count of Savoy

Marquis of Susa

Events

Date of Birth: about 1048 - 1050

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Creber.

Date of Death: 26 January 1080.

Place of Death: Turin.

The date is given by Previté-Orton (p. 242) and by Creber.

Relationships

Father: Otto of Maurienne, count of Maurienne and of Chablais.

This relationship is given by Guichenon (1:205), by Cognasso, by Dufour (p. 466), and by Demotz (p. 677).

Mother: Adelaide of Susa, marquise of Susa.

This relationship is given by Guichenon (1:205), by Cognasso, and by Dufour (p. 466).

Spouse: Joan.

Creber (p. 67) states that “[l]ate sources suggest that his wife was Joan, daughter of Gerold of Geneva and Rudolf’s unnamed sister.” Palluel-Guillard states that she was the daughter of Gerold, count of Genève. Previté-Orton (p. 242) states that the sources that give her father as Gerold II, count of the Genevois, are untrustworthy, but the relationship is nevertheless probable, since the count of the Genevois was guardian of Amadeus’s grandson, Amadeus III.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Adelaide married Manasses, lord of Coligny.

Auxilia married Humbert de Beaujeu.

Humbert II “le Renforcé” (about 1072 - 19 October 1103), count of Maurienne, married Gisèle de Bourgogne-Ivrée.

References

Cognasso, Francesco. “Amedeo II, conte di Savoia” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 2 (1960).

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

Creber, Alison Madeleine. Adelaide of Turin (c. 1014/24-1091): Imperial Politics and Regional Power in Eleventh-Century Northern Italy (PhD thesis, King’s College London; 2017).

Demotz, François. La Bourgogne, Dernier des Royaumes Carolingiens (Lausanne, 2008).

Dufour, Jean. "Louis VI, roi de France (1108-1137), à la lumière des actes royaux et des source narratives" in Comples rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 134e année, N.2, 1990. pp. 456-482.

Guichenon, Samuel. Histoire généalogique de la royale maison de Savoie Tome 1 (Turin, 1778).

Palluel-Guillard, André. “Amédée II” in La Maison de Savoie at sabaudia.org.

Previté-Orton, Charles William. The Early History of the House of Savoy (1000 - 1233). (Cambridge University Press: 1912).