DUCHY OF SAVOY

:''For the early history of Savoy, before it was raised to a duchy, see County of Savoy and March of Turin.''
The independent 'Duchy of Savoy' (, ) continued under the House of Savoy from 1416 to 1714.

Contents

History

List of Dukes of Savoy

External links

History

First occupied by France under the reign of Francis I of France in 1536, the Duchy of Savoy was given a parliament based in Chambéry. In 1559, the occupation ceased and parliament was replaced by a senate. In 1601, following a 13-year conflict with France, Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy gave the territories of Bresse, Bugey, Valromey and Gex to Henry IV of France in exchange for the marquisate of Saluzzo.
A second French occupation in 1630 forced the Duke of Savoy to cede the fortress of
Pinerolo to France (Treaty of Cherasco in 1631). Refusing an alliance with France, the Duchy of Savoy was again occupied from 1690 to 1696 and from 1703 to 1713.
At the end of the War of the Spanish Succession with the treaty of Utrecht in 1713,
the Duke of Savoy regained his original possessions and received the Kingdom and the title of
King of Sardinia in 1718 — and would later become King of Italy in 1861.
In 1792, following the French Revolution, the original Duchy of Savoy was occupied
and became the French ''département'' of Mont-Blanc, but in 1814, with the Congress of Vienna, the King of Sardinia regained his possessions.

List of Dukes of Savoy

★ Amedeo VIII : 1391–1440, duke from 1416

★ Lodovico : 1440–65

★ Amedeo IX : 1465–72

★ Filiberto I : 1472–82

★ Carlo I : 1482–90

★ Carlo (II) Giovanni Amedeo : 1490–96

★ Filippo II : 1496–97

★ Filiberto II : 1497–1504

★ Carlo III : 1504–53

★ Emanuele Filiberto : 1553–80

★ Carlo Emanuele I : 1580–1630

★ Vittorio Amedeo I: 1630–37

★ Francesco Giacinto : 1637–38

★ Carlo Emanuele II : 1638–75

★ Vittorio Amedeo II : 1675–1732, as first king of Piedmont-Sardinia 1720–30; also king of Sicily, 1713–18

External links

★ Kelley L. Ross, "Francia Media" website: genealogical and territorial disambiguation of Lorraine and Burgundy, with a section on Counts and Dukes of Savoy