_Otto (Eudes) Marquis of Suze and of Ivres_
_Amadeus II C of Savoy & Susa_____|_Adelaide of Turin_________________________
_Humbert II C of Savoy___|
| | _Gerold C of Geneva________________________
| |_Johanna de Geneva________________|_Gisela ___________________________________
_Amadeus III C of Savoy______|
| | _Renaud I C of Burgundy____________________
| | _William I C of Burgundy &Macon___|_Alice of Normandy_________________________
| |_Gislea of Burgundy______|
| | _Adalbert III C of Longwy__________________
| |_Stephanie de Longwy______________|_Clemence de Foix__________________________
_Humbert III C of Savoy_|
| | _Guigues VI "the old" C of Albon___________
| | _Guigues VII "Le Gros" C of Albon_|_Alix de Beaujeu___________________________
| | _Guigues VIII C of Albon_|
| | | | _Artaud Sire d'Annonay_____________________
| | | |_Adelais\Petronel of Turin________|_Petronel of Grenoble______________________
| |_Maud of Albon_______________|
| | _Tancred d'Hauteville______________________
| | _Roger I* C of Sicily_____________|_Fredisinde of Normandy ___________________
| |_Mathilda _______________|
| | _Manfredo* Margrave of Savona______________
| |_Adelaide* of Savona______________|___________________________________________
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|--Thomas C of Savoy
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| _Gerard C of Vienne & Macon__|
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|_Beatrix of Macon_______|
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|_Maurette\ Guyonne de Salins_|
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Quoting from Christipher Cope's, "The Lost Kingdom of Burgundy" :
"The reign of HUMBERT's son, Count Thomas I (1189-1233), opened a
golden age for Savoy for he started the great advance north-westwards
which carried his successors' sway over the Rhone into Bresse and to the
Saone between Macon and Chalon. Even more significant was his victory
over Berthold V of Zahringen which cleared the way for the conquest by
his son Peter II (1263-8) of what is now the cantons of Vaud and
Fribourg. Thomas was also more successful than his father in
reproducing his race for his bride, MARGARET, daughter of the COUNT OF
GENEVOIS, who raised eight sons and six daughters. According to the
chronicler of Hautecombe Abbey, the Westminster of Savoy, MARGARET
was being taken in 1196 to France by her ambitious father to become the
third wife of Richard Lionhart's enemy, PHILIP AUGUSTUS (RIN 3163).
Thomas had fallen passionately in love with her and, ambushing her party
in a narrow gorge in Bugey, defied the KING OF FRANCE and carried her
off to the altar."
Europaische Stammtafeln ii, 190:
"From the time of Thomas I the counts were effectively rulers of a
minor kingdom and there were very few states of any size in which the
central power had so successfully established its authority."
Savoy's greatest days were under Thomas' sons, Peter and Philip. Savoy
prospered and even continued to expand from this time on into the
sixteenth century.
Turton, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 97.