Humbert II “le Renforcé”, count of Savoy

Count of Maurienne and of Savoy

Events

Date of Birth: about 1072.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Date of Death: 19 October 1103.

Place of Death: Moûtiers.

The date and place is given by Cawley. The date is also given by Previté-Orton (p. 277).

Place of Burial: Moûtiers.

The place is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Amédée II, count of Savoy.

This relationship is given by Cokayne (p. 80), by Palluel-Guillard, by Demotz, and by Dufour (p. 466).

Mother: Jeanne.

This relationship is by Cawley. Palluel-Guillard states that she was the daughter of Gerold, count of Geneva. Dufour (p. 466) calls her Jeanne de Genève. Cartellieri makes her the daughter of Gerold I, count of Geneva and Tetberga of Swabia.

Spouse: Gisèle de Bourgogne.

This relationship is given by Cokayne (pp. 80, 88), by Previté-Orton (p. 270), by Palluel-Guillard, by Demotz, and by Dufour (p. 466).

Children:

(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 Cawley.)

Adélaïde (1092 - 18 November 1154) married Louis VI “le Gros”, king of France.

Amédée III (1095 - 30 August 1148), count of Maurienne and of Savoy, married (1) Adélaïde; married (2) Mathilde d’Albon.

Guillaume (died about 1130 - 1131), bishop of Liège.

Humbert (died 1131).

Guy, abbot of Namur.

Reinald (died after 1150), prior of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Maurice d’Agaune.

Agnès (1105 - 1180) married Archambault VII de Bourbon.

References

Cartellieri, Alexander. Philipp II. August, König von Frankreich (Band 4) (Leipzig, 1921; republished 1969).

Cawley, Charles. “HUMBERT de Savoie” 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).

Demotz, B. Savoyen genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

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.

Manteyer, Georges de. Les origines de la Maison de Savoie en Bourgogne (910-1060) (reprint Geneva, 1978).

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