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Bl Amédée IX de Savoie
3rd Duc de Savoie
(1435–72)

Biographical

3rd Duc de Savoie 1465–72†
Principe di Piemonte, substantive 1439–65; 1465–72†
Titular Prince of Achaia 1465–72†
Duc de Chablais 1465–72†
Duca d'Aosta 1465–72†
Marchese di Susa 1465–72†
Marchese in Italia 1465–72†
Marchese di Ivrea 1465–72†
Comte de Nice 1465–72†
Comte de Maurienne 1465–72†
Baron de Gex >1470–72†
Signore di Vercelli 1465–72†
Seigneur de Bugey 1465–72†
Seigneur de Fribourg 1465–72†
Signore di Pinerolo 1465–72†

Lieutenant colonel of Savoy 1463–65

Amadeus was living at Bourg en Bresse, when he received the news of his father's death in 1465, upon which he repaired to Chambéry, where he convoked the states of Savoy, and assumed the ducal crown, receiving the oath of allegiance of his subjects. In 1468, he contracted an alliance with Venice, as a precaution against the ambition of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, duke of Milan. Shortly after, Amadeus' poor health induced him to give up the care of the state to his wife, Yolande, whom he named regent. Upon this, Louis, count of Geneva, Philip, count of Bresse, and James, count of Romont, brothers of Amadeus, rose in arms, claiming the regency for themselves, and in 1471 surprised the castle of Montmélian, in which Amadeus was present, and took him to Chambéry, where they kept him under their own eye. Yolande escaped into Dauphiny, and she applied to Louis XI of France for assistance. Louis sent some troops to the borders of Savoy, and an arrangement was soon after made by which Amadeus was restored to his wife, and a junta or council was appointed to consult with Yolande on state affairs. Amadeus, being attacked by epilepsy, crossed the Alps in quest of a milder climate, but died soon after. He was beatified in 1677.

Place of birth: Castle of Thonon
Place of marriage: Feurs en Forez, Loire
Place of death: Vercelli
Place of death: San Eusebio, Vercelli

Son of Louis I, duc de Savoie and Princess Anne of Cyprus. He married Princesse Yolande de France in 1452.

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