Count of Maurienne and of Savoy
Events
Date of Birth: after 1065.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 19 October 1103.
The date is given by Previté-Orton (p. 277).
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.
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.)
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.
William (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.
Agnes (1105 - 1180) married Archambault VII de Bourbon.
References
Cartellieri, Alexander. Philipp II. August, König von Frankreich (Band 4) (Leipzig, 1921; republished 1969).
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.