Amédée (I), count of Geneva

Events

Date of Birth: about 1100 - 1110.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The estimated date is given by Cawley. Duparc notes that Amédée is attested as count between 1128 and 1178.

Date of Death: 28 June 1178.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Duparc.

Relationships

Father: Aimon de Genève.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:157), by Cokayne (p. 98), and by Duparc.

(possible) Mother: Ita.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:157), by Cokayne (p. 98), and by Duparc. Cawley suggests that, given the chronology, Aimon had a second wife, whom he gives as the mother of Amédée.

Spouse: Mathilde de Cuiseaux. Died before 1137.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:157), by Cokayne (p. 98), and by Cawley. Père Anselme and Cokayne give her father as Pons, but Cawley gives Hugues. Duparc simply gives the name Mathilde, and suggests that she may have been of the family of Neuchâtel.

Spouse: unknown (de Domène?). Married before 1147.

This relationship is given Duparc.

Children (by Mathilde):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Duparc and from Cawley.)

Guillaume (I) (died 25 July 1196), count of Geneva, married (1) Agnès de Savoie; married (2) Béatrix de Faucigny.

other children.

Children (by his second wife):

Comtesson married Henri, lord of Faucigny.

Béatrice married Ebal IV de Grandson.

Amédée, lord of Gex, married Poncia de Thoire.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Cawley, Charles. “Amédée (I)” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

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

Duparc, Pierre. Le Comté de Genève: IX^e -XV^e.Siècle. (Mémoires et documents publiès par la Société d’histoire et d’archéologie de Genève, tome XXXIX, Deuxième edition revue, 1978).