Philip I (Piedmont)

Philip I , also known as Philip of Savoy ( French Philippe de Savoie , Italian Filippo di Savoia-Acaia , * 1278 ; † September 25, 1334 ), was Lord of Piedmont from 1282 and Prince of Achaia from 1301 to 1307 .

Life

Philip was the son of Thomas III. of Piedmont and Guyonne de Châlon, married Isabelle de Villehardouin , Princess of Achaia, on February 12, 1301 in Rome , and through this marriage became Prince of Achaia herself. Philip now pursued the reconquest of Laconia from Byzantium, but his authoritarian character quickly brought him into conflict with the nobility of the country. After trying to assert himself against the barons, he had to give in in 1304 and accept a parliament. In 1306 Philip and Isabelle were called to Naples, where Philip was accused of not having sufficiently taken part in a campaign by Charles against the despotate of Epirus ; Isabella, in turn, was accused of not having obtained the necessary consent from Charles II of Naples for her third marriage . On May 5, 1306 Achaia was taken from the couple and given to Charles' son Philip I of Taranto . Philip of Piedmont gave up his claim to Achaia on May 11, 1307 and received the county of Alba (Piedmont) . Isabelle separated from him and fled to Hainaut , the home of her second husband, from where she continued her claims.

family

Children of Isabelle and Philip were:

• Marguerite (* 1303; † after 1371), ⚭ 1324 Renaud, Count of Forez († 1370)

In 1312 (Isabelle had died at the beginning of the year) Philipp married Catherine de la Tour du Pin († 1337), daughter of Humbert I , Dauphin of Viennois , and Anne de Bourgogne. Children from this marriage were:

• Alice († 1368), ⚭ I Manfred de Carretto, Margrave of Savona; ⚭ II 1354 Antelmo d'Urtières
• Jacques (* 1315; † 1367), Lord of Piedmont
• Amadeus († 1376), Bishop of Maurienne and Lausanne
• Thomas (* 1329 † after 1360), Bishop of Turin and Aosta
• Eduard († 1395), monk in Cluny, abbot of Saint-Juste, bishop of Belley and Sitten , archbishop of Tarentaise
• Aymon
• Eleonore († 1350), ⚭ 1333 Manfred V. Margrave of Saluzzo ( Aleramides )
• Johanna, ⚭ Aymar de Poitiers († 1349) ( House of Poitiers-Valentinois )
• Béatrice (* 1312; † 1340), ⚭ 1334 Humbert VI. de Thoire et Villars († 1372)
• Agnes, ⚭ 1343 Jean de la Chambre, Comte de Laville
• Elisabeth († 1370), abbess of Saint-Jacques in Pinerolo

literature

• The Frankish States in Greece, 1204-1311 , Jean Longnon, A History of the Crusades , Volume 2, ed. by Kenneth M. Setton, Wisconsin University Press, 1969, pp. 265-266.
• Eugene L. Cox, The Green Count of Savoy . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1967, LCCN 67-11030

predecessor	Office	successor
Florence from Hainaut (de iure uxoris)	Prince of Achaia (de iure uxoris ) 1301–1307	Philip I of Taranto