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    The titles of the Count of Savoy, and then Duke of Savoy, are titles of nobility attached to the historical territory of Savoy. Since its creation, in...
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    Philip (category Given names of Greek language origin)
    III of Navarre Philip of Swabia, King of Germany (r. 1198–1208) and Duke of Swabia Philip I, Count of Savoy (1207–1285) Philip II, Duke of Savoy (1438–1497)...
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    Savoyard state (redirect from Savoy States)
    states ruled by the counts and dukes of Savoy from the Middle Ages to the formation of the Kingdom of Italy. Although it was an example of composite monarchy...
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  • Royal domain Louise of Savoy (1476–1531) - wife of Charles, Count of Angoulême from 1488. Marie Thérèse of France (1778–1851) - wife of Louis Antoine from...
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  • Illustrated History of France (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 124. ISBN 0-521-43294-4. Titles of the counts and dukes of Anjou in the 11-16th...
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    1383 – 7 January 1451), nicknamed the Peaceful, was Count of Savoy from 1391 to 1416 and Duke of Savoy from 1416 to 1440. He was a claimant to the papacy...
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    similar windows to Harlech Castle in Wales at a later date. The counts and dukes of Savoy used the castle as a residence but also to house prisoners. Its...
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    held by the Kingdom of Sardinia (1718) and survived until the end of the 18th century. The ancient counts, later dukes of Savoy, at least in the 13th...
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    Honour of Richmond. The house the Count of Savoy built there later became the home of Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, and his descendants, the Dukes of Lancaster...
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    established in 1003 in the historical region of Savoy, which was originally part of the Kingdom of Burgundy and now lies mostly within southeastern France...
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    Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, OSV Publishing, 2003. ISBN 9781931709750. ""The Early Dukes of Savoy", American Delegation of Savoy Orders". Archived from...
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    The titular counts of Champagne also inherited the post of seneschal of France. In Merovingian and Carolingian times, several dukes of Champagne (or...
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    Guiscard 1057–59 Dukes Robert Guiscard 1059–85 Roger I Borsa 1085–1111 William II 1111–27 In 1127 the duchy passed to the count of Sicily. It was thereafter...
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    Maurice of Savoy-Carignano (French: Eugène Maurice de Savoie-Carignan; 2 March 1635 – 6 June 1673) was a Franco-Italian nobleman and general. A Count of Soissons...
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    1465) was Duke of Savoy from 1440 until his death in 1465. Louis was born at Geneva the son of Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy and Mary of Burgundy; he was...
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    ruled Aumale, through their claims to be dukes of Normandy and later, kings of France. The title of Count or Duke of Aumale was granted several times during...
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    centuries the Counts and Dukes of Savoy were buried. Count Humbert III, known as "Blessed", and his wife Anne were interred there in the latter part of the 12th...
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    Saluzzo (redirect from Bishopric of Saluzzo)
    chiefly the Counts (later Dukes) of Savoy. After Manfred II's death, his widow had to accept a series of tributes, which were to be later the base of the House...
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    was the head of the House of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from 12 June 1675 until his abdication in 1730. He was the first of his house to acquire...
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    and three temporal, and the dukes all ranked above the counts. The Prince-Bishops with ducal territories included: The Archbishop of Reims, styled archevêque-duc...
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    Emperor elevated Amadeus from Count to Duke of Savoy. Mary duly became Duchess. From then onwards Dukes ruled over Savoy. The couple were married for thirty-six...
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  • to the counts and dukes of Savoy at Chambéry and to the counts and dukes of Genvois (the future Genevois-Nemours branch of the house of Savoy) at Annecy...
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    leader and magnate. He was the father of the penultimate Duchess of Savoy and of a Queen of Portugal. He was the son of Henri of Savoy, 3rd Duke of Nemours...
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    kings of Sardinia (1720–1861), dukes of Savoy (1416–1861), lords and princes of Piedmont (1233–1416), counts of Savoy (1032–1416), marquises of Turin...
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    Marie Joséphine of Savoy (Italian: Maria Giuseppina Luisa; 2 September 1753 – 13 November 1810) was a princess of France and Countess of Provence by marriage...
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    1253) was Count of Savoy from 1233 to 1253. Amadeus was born in Montmélian, Savoy. The legitimate heir of Thomas I of Savoy and Margaret of Geneva, he...
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    lady-in-waiting to the Countess of Artois (Maria Theresa of Savoy); married in 1762 to Jean-Laurent de Durfort-Civrac, 1st Duke of Lorges (2nd creation). Guy...
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    (Italian: Umberto Biancamano), was the count of Savoy from 1032 until his death and the founder of the House of Savoy. Of obscure origins, his service to the...
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    appointed Hugh, Duke of Burgundy, as its first margrave. At the time, the premier counts in the region were the counts of Arles and those of Avignon. Those...
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    Louise of Savoy (11 September 1476 – 22 September 1531) was a French noble and regent, Duchess suo jure of Auvergne and Bourbon, Duchess of Nemours and the...
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