Also known as Mahaud de Savoie.
Events
Date of Birth: about 1112 - 1116.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The estimated range of dates is given by Cawley.
Date of Death: after 30 March 1148.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Cawley.
Relationships
Father: Guigues (VIII), count of Albon.
This relationship is given by Previté-Orton (p. 292), by Manteyer (p. 94), by Cognasso, and by Giordanengo.
Mother: Mathilda “Regina”.
This relationship is given by Manteyer (p. 94) and by Giordanengo. Mathilda is recorded to have been of England. There have been different conjectures about her parentage. (Manteyer makes an elaborate argument on pp. 344 ff.) “Regina” has sometimes been interpreted as meaning she was a queen, but has also been taken as a name or byname.
Spouse: Amadeus III, count of Savoy.
This relationship is given by Cokayne (p. 95), by Previté-Orton (p. 292), by Manteyer (p. 94), by Cognasso, and by Giordanengo.
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.)
Humbert III (4 August 1136 - 4 March 1189), count of Savoy, married (1) Faydive; married (2) Gertrude de Flandre; married (3) Klementia von Zähringen; married (4) Béatrix de Vienne.
Jean.
Pierre.
Guillaume. Priest.
Agnès married Guillaume de Genève.
Marguerite.
Juliane (died 31 December 1194). Abbess of Saint-André-le-Haut, Vienne.
References
Cawley, Charles. “MATHILDE” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Cognasso, Francesco. “Amedeo III, 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).
Giordanengo, Gérard. Le droit féodal dans les pay de droit écrit: L’exemple de la Provence et du Dauphiné XIIe-début XIV siècle. (École Française de Rome: 1988).
Manteyer, Georges de. “Les origines du Dauphiné de Viennois: la première race des comtes d’Albon (843-1228)” in Bulletin de la Société d’études des Hautes-Alpes (1925). pp. 50-140; pp. 307-426.
Palluel-Guillard, André. “AMEDEE III” 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).