Thomas I (Savoy)

Thomas I of Savoy (* May 20, 1177 ; † March 6, 1233 ) was the only son of Humbert III. of Savoy and his wife Beatrix of Burgundy.

He joined the imperial-friendly party in Italy ( Ghibellines ), whereupon Philip of Swabia gave him the Piedmontese fiefs of Chieri and Testona and the Vaudois fiefdom of Moudon . Frederick II appointed him imperial vicar in Lombardy in Italy in 1226 . At the end of his life, Thomas of Savoy preferred the general title Count of Savoy , after he had previously called himself Count von Maurienne .

Marriage and offspring

Thomas of Savoy married Béatrice Marguerite of Geneva (1179–1236) in 1196 .

• Amadeus (1197–1253), Count of Savoy ∞ Anna of Burgundy (* 1193)
• Humbert (1198–1223), Count of Chillon
• Thomas (1199–1259), Count of Savoy
• Haimon I († 1238), Count of Romont
• Wilhelm († 1239), Bishop of Valence in 1226 and Bishop of Liège in 1238
• Amadeus (1220–1268), Bishop of Maurienne
• Peter (1203–1268), Count of Savoy
• Philip (1207–1285), Count of Savoy, Bishop of Valence and Archbishop of Lyon
• Boniface († 1270), Bishop of Belley and Archbishop of Canterbury
• Margaretha of Savoy (1212–1273) ∞ Hartmann IV. Von Kyrburg (1192–1264)
• Beatrix († 1266), married Raimund Berengar V. a count of Provence . From this marriage arose four daughters who, thanks to a clever marriage policy at the intersection of German and French territorial interests, all rose to be queens:
  • Margaret of Provence ∞ Louis IX. the saint the King of France and had eleven children with them, including the later King of France Philip III. and Robert von Clermont , the founder of the Bourbon dynasty.
  • Eleanor of Provence ∞ Henry III. Plantagenet the King of England and had nine children with him, including the future King of England Edward the Longshangs .
  • Sancha von der Provence ∞ Richard von Cornwall, the Roman-German King, had three sons with him and thus became the ancestral mother of the House of Cornwallis.
  • Beatrix of Provence ∞ Charles of Anjou the King of Naples and Sicily and had seven children with him, including the later King of Naples and Sicily Charles II of Anjou , the later Latin Empress Beatrix and the later Queen of Hungary Isabella.

literature

• Marie José: The House of Savoy. From the origins to the red count. Pro Castellione Foundation, Niedergesteln 1994.
• Georg Lohmeier: The European Kayser and Royal Houses Historical and Genealogical Explanation 1. Stern, Lüneburg 1730, p. 208 f. ( books.google.de )
• Eusèbe-Henri-Alban Gaullieur, Charles Schaub, Heinrich Graefe: Switzerland. Your history, geography and statistics. Geneva 1856, p. 122 f. ( books.google.de )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Thomas I Graf von Savoyen † 1233. manfred-hiebl.de, accessed on November 21, 2015 . 
2. ^ Bernard Andenmatten:  Savoyen (Savoie, Savoia). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 475 f. ( Digitized version ).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} 4053. Thomas I, Count of Savoy. (PDF) on schneidermuch.de

predecessor	Office	successor
Humbert III.	Count of Savoy 1189-1233	Amadeus IV.