Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy

Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy
Count of Savoy
Coat of Arms of the Counts of Savoy
Spouse(s)	Bonne of Berry
Issue Amadeus VIII of Savoy Bonne Joan
Noble family	House of Savoy
Father	Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy
Mother	Bonne of Bourbon
Born	March 1360 Chambéry
Died	1 November 1391

Amadeus VII (March 1360, Chambéry^[1] – November 1, 1391), known as the Red Count, was Count of Savoy from 1383 to 1391.^[2]

Amadeus was the son of Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy and Bonne of Bourbon. Amadeus VII was known for his hospitality, for he would entertain people of all stations and never turned a person from his table without a meal.^[3]

He married Bonne of Berry, daughter of John, Duke of Berry, who was the younger brother of Charles V of France.^[4] They had three children:

• Amadeus VIII, later known as Antipope Felix V, married Mary of Burgundy (1380–1422), daughter of Philip the Bold^[4]
• Bonne (d. 1432) married to Louis of Piedmont, the final of the Savoy-Archaea Branch; see also Thomas II of Savoy
• Joan (d. 1460) married to Giangiacomo Paleologo, marquis of Montferrat.

Upon his death at age 29 from tetanus,^[5] controversy arose because of his will. Amadeus VII left the important role of guardian of his son and heir, Amadeus VIII, to his own mother, a sister of the powerful Duke de Bourbon, instead of following the tradition of appointing the child's mother, who was a daughter of the equally powerful Duke de Berry. It took three months of negotiations to restore peace in the family.^[6]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy

16. Thomas, Count of Flanders               8. Amadeus V, Count of Savoy                       17. Beatrice Fieschi               4. Aymon, Count of Savoy                             18. Guy II de Baugé               9. Sybille of Bâgé                       19. Dauphine de Lavieu               2. Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy                                   20. Andronikos II Palaiologos               10. Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat                       21. Irene of Montferrat               5. Yolande Palaeologina of Montferrat                             22. Opicino Spinola               11. Argentina Spinola                       23. Violante Saluzzo               1. Amadeus VII of Savoy                                         24. Robert, Count of Clermont               12. Louis I, Duke of Bourbon                       25. Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon               6. Peter I, Duke of Bourbon                             26. John II, Count of Holland               13. Mary of Avesnes                       27. Philippa of Luxembourg               3. Bonne of Bourbon                                   28. Philip III of France               14. Charles, Count of Valois                       29. Isabella of Aragon               7. Isabella of Valois                             30. Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol               15. Mahaut of Châtillon                       31. Marie of Brittany

Notes

1. Cox 1967, p. 145.
2. "Amadeus VII." The Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 3 August 2012
3. Tuchman 1978, p. 426.
4. Vaughan 2002, p. 53.
5. European Cases of the Reincarnation Type By Ian Stevenson, M.D., p. 19.
6. Tuchman 1978, p. 503.

References

• Cox, Eugene L. (1967). The Green Count of Savoy. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. LCCN 67-11030.
• Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim (1978). A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. New York: Knopf.
• Vaughan, Richard (2002). Philip the Bold: The Formation of the Burgundian State. Boydell Press.