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Amédée de Savoie
Titular Prince of Achaia
(1363
–1402)

Biographical

Titular Prince of Achaia 1368–1402†
Signore di Piemonte 1368–1402†

After his father amended his will to appoint Amédée his principal heir, his elder half-brother, Philippe, rebelled and between 1366 and 1367, occupied his father's land with the military. Amedeo, and his brother, Louis, fled to Savoy with their mother, Marguerite de Beaujeu, and returned after their father's death in 1367. The crisis ended after Philippe was imprisoned and died in 1368. Amédée lived at the court of Amédée VI, count of Savoy, who administered his dominions due to his young age. He came of age in 1377, and Amédée VI arranged his marriage to Catherine de Genève. He continued the political and military policies of Amédée VI and his successor Amédée VII, who, in the 1370s and 1380s, considerably extended the Savoy dominions on the two Alpine slopes. In the second half of the 1380s, Amedeo's troops joined those of the Comitali in the conflict between the Savoy and the Marquises of Monferrato for control of various places in the Canavese area and the Rocca di Verrua. At the end of the 1380s Amédée attempted to regain control over the Greek principality of Achaia, for which his grandfather, Philippe, had never received due compensation. Amédée obtained the support of Clement VII, who in 1387 invalidated the sale of Achaia carried out by Joan of Anjou in favour of the knights of Rhodes. Amedeo, was also supported in the enterprise by Amédée VII, Venice, Genoa and the Visconti. He entered into negotiations with the aristocracy of Morea and with other powers of the region, such as the despot of Romania, Theodore Palaeologus, and Neri Acciaiuoli, lord of Athens. In 1391 an agreement was formulated in Venice which provided for the vassal homage of the local nobility to Amédée, who travelled to the region in 1392 with a contingent of armed men and cash aid. But Count Amédée VII died suddenly, and the project was interrupted. After his return to Piedmont that year, Amédée dedicated the rest of the decade in attempts to consolidate the Savoy dominion on the Italian side of the Alps. War between Savoy and Montferrat was almost incessant. In 1396 Monferrato lost Mondovì, and it submitted to Amédée. Despite various truces, the conflict with Monferrato continued into the fifteenth century. After his death, Amédée was succeeded by his brother, Louis.

Place of birth: Pinerolo?
Place of death: Pinerolo
Place of burial: Pinerolo

Son of Jacques d Savoie and Marguerite de Beaujeu. He married Catherine de Genève in 1380, and had issue.



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