Paternal Family Tree: Savoy
Around 1155 [his father] Humbert Savoy III Count Savoy [aged 21] and [his step-mother] Gertrude Metz Countess Savoy were married. She by marriage Countess Savoy. She the daughter of Thierry Count Flanders [aged 56] and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex [aged 43]. He the son of [his grandfather] Amadeus Savoy III Count Savoy and [his grandmother] Mahaut Albon Countess Savoy. They were fifth cousin once removed.
In 1164 [his father] Humbert Savoy III Count Savoy [aged 30] and Clementia Zähringen Countess Savoy were married. She by marriage Countess Savoy. He the son of [his grandfather] Amadeus Savoy III Count Savoy and [his grandmother] Mahaut Albon Countess Savoy.
In 1178 Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy was born to Humbert Savoy III Count Savoy [aged 44] and Beatrice Macon Countess Savoy.
On 4th March 1188 [his father] Humbert Savoy III Count Savoy [aged 54] died. His son Thomas [aged 10] succeeded I Count Savoy.
In 1195 Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy [aged 17] abducted [his wife] Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy [aged 15].
In 1195 Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy [aged 17] and Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy [aged 15] were married. She by marriage Countess Savoy. He the son of Humbert Savoy III Count Savoy and Beatrice Macon Countess Savoy.
In 1197 [his son] Amedeo Savoy IV Count Savoy was born to Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy [aged 19] and [his wife] Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy [aged 17]. He married (1) 1217 his fourth cousin Margaret Burgundy Countess Savoy, daughter of Hugh III Duke Burgundy and Beatrice of Albon Duchess Burgundy, and had issue (2) 18th December 1244 Cecilia Baux Countess Savoy and had issue.
Around 1198 [his daughter] Beatrice Savoy Countess Provence was born to Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy [aged 20] and [his wife] Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy [aged 18]. She married 5th June 1219 her fourth cousin Raymond IV Count Provence, son of Alfonso Barcelona II Count Provence and Gersenda II Sabran Countess Provence, and had issue.
Around 1199 [his son] Thomas Savoy II Count Flanders was born to Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy [aged 21] and [his wife] Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy [aged 19]. He married 1252 Beatrice Fieschi and had issue.
In 1203 [his son] Peter of Savoy 1st Earl of Richmond was born to Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy [aged 25] and [his wife] Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy [aged 23].
In 1207 [his son] Archbishop Philip of Savoy was born to Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy [aged 29] and [his wife] Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy [aged 27].
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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Around 1207 [his son] Archbishop Boniface Savoy was born to Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy [aged 29] and [his wife] Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy [aged 27].
In 1209 [his daughter] Alice of Savoy was born to Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy [aged 31] and [his wife] Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy [aged 29].
In 1215 [his daughter] Avita Savoy was born to Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy [aged 37] and [his wife] Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy [aged 35].
Around 1217 Amedeo Savoy IV Count Savoy [aged 20] and Margaret Burgundy Countess Savoy [aged 25] were married. She by marriage Countess Savoy. She the daughter of Hugh III Duke Burgundy and Beatrice of Albon Duchess Burgundy [aged 56]. He the son of Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy [aged 39] and Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy [aged 37]. They were fourth cousins. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King William "Conqueror" I of England.
On 5th June 1219 [his son-in-law] Raymond IV Count Provence [aged 21] and Beatrice Savoy Countess Provence [aged 21] were married. She by marriage Countess Provence. She the daughter of Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy [aged 41] and Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy [aged 39]. He the son of Alfonso Barcelona II Count Provence and Gersenda II Sabran Countess Provence [aged 39]. They were fourth cousins.
On 1st March 1233 Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy [aged 55] died. His son Amedeo [aged 36] succeeded IV Count Savoy.
Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris. January 1236. Anno Domini 1236, which was the twentieth year of the reign of King Henry the Third, he held his court at Winchester at Christmas, where he observed that festival with rejoicings. He was at this time anxiously looking for the return of the special messengers, whom he had sent into Provence to [his son-in-law] Raymond [aged 38], count of that province, with letters containing his own inmost thoughts about contracting a marriage with his daughter [his granddaughter] Eleanor [aged 13]. This said count was a man of illustrious race and brave in battle, but, by continual wars, he had wasted almost all the money he possessed. He had married the daughter [aged 38] of Thomas, the late count of Savoy, and sister of the present count, Amadeus [aged 39], a woman of remarkable beauty, by name Beatrice. This lady had issue by the aforesaid count, two daughters of great beauty, the elder of whom, named Margaret [aged 15], was married to Louis [aged 21], the French king, as we are told by a clerk named John de Gates; and the king of England had now, by the aforesaid messengers, demanded the younger one, a young lady of handsome appearance, in marriage. In order to obtain this favour, he had secretly sent Richard, prior of Hurle, in advance, who faithfully and with diligence brought the matter to a conclusion. On the prior's returning and telling the king the result, the latter sent him back to the count with some other messengers, namely, the bishops Hugh of Ely, and Robert of Hereford, and the brother of Robert de SANFORD, the master of the Knights Templars. These messengers were received by the count on their arrival in Provence with the greatest honour and respect, and from his hands received his daughter Eleanor, for the purpose of being united to the King of England; she was also attended by her uncle, William, bishop elect of Valentia; a man of distinction, and by the count of Champagne, a relation of the English king. The king of Navarre, on learning that they would travel through his territories, went joyfully to meet them, and accompanied them as a guide through his dominions during a journey of five days and more; he also, from his natural generosity, paid all their expenses, both for horses and attendants. Their retinue consisted of more than three hundred horsemen, not including the people who followed them in great numbers. On reaching the boundaries of France, they obtained not only a safe but honourable passage through that country, under conduct of the French king and his queen, the sister of the lady about to be married to the English king, and also of Blanche [aged 47], the French king's mother. They embarked at the port of Sandwich [Note. Should be Wissant], and with full sail made for Dover, Kent [Map], where they arrived, after a quick passage, before they were expected.
In 1252 [his former wife] Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy [aged 72] died.
[his daughter] Margherita Savoy Countess Devon was born to Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy and Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy. She married 1257 Baldwin Redvers 7th Earl Devon, son of Baldwin Redvers 6th Earl Devon and Amice Clare Countess Devon, and had issue.
[his daughter] Ágatha Savoy was born to Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy and Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy.
[his son] Aimone Savoy was born to Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy and Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy.
[his father] Humbert Savoy III Count Savoy and [his mother] Beatrice Macon Countess Savoy were married. She by marriage Countess Savoy. He the son of [his grandfather] Amadeus Savoy III Count Savoy and [his grandmother] Mahaut Albon Countess Savoy.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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[his father] Humbert Savoy III Count Savoy and Faidiva Toulouse Countess Savoy were married. She by marriage Countess Savoy. He the son of [his grandfather] Amadeus Savoy III Count Savoy and [his grandmother] Mahaut Albon Countess Savoy.
[his son] Umberto Savoy was born to Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy and Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy.
[his son] Bishop William of Savoy was born to Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy and Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy.
[his son] Bishop Amadeus of Savoy was born to Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy and Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy.
Kings France: Great x 12 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England [1]
Sanchia Provence Queen Consort Germany [1]
Constance Hohenstaufen Queen Consort Aragon [1]
Joan Capet II Queen Navarre [1]
Constanza Manuel Queen Consort Castile [1]
King John "The Good" II of France [1]
Blanche Bourbon Queen Consort Castile [1]
Martha Armagnac Queen Consort Aragon [1]
Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort Navarre [2]
Yolande of Bar Queen Consort Aragon [1]
Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France [1]
Philippa Lancaster Queen Consort Denmark [1]
Joan Beaufort Queen Consort Scotland [1]
King Richard III of England [2]
Anne Neville Queen Consort England [3]
King Henry VII of England and Ireland [1]
Bianca Maria Sforza Holy Roman Empress [3]
Philip "Handsome Fair" King Castile [2]
Germaine Foix Queen Consort Aragon [2]
Marguerite Valois Orléans Queen Consort Navarre [6]
Queen Anne Boleyn of England [3]
Catherine Parr Queen Consort England [4]
Anne of Cleves Queen Consort England [1]
Mary of Guise Queen Consort Scotland [7]
Queen Catherine Howard of England [2]
Maximilian Habsburg Spain II Holy Roman Emperor [2]
Jane Grey I Queen England and Ireland [5]
Francis II King France King Consort Scotland [1]
Elizabeth Valois Queen Consort Spain [1]
Louise Lorraine Queen Consort France [2]
Maximilian "The Great" Wittelsbach I Duke Bavaria I Elector Bavaria [9]
Maria Anna Wittelsbach Holy Roman Empress [9]
Electress Louise Juliana of the Palatine Rhine [5]
Ferdinand of Spain II Holy Roman Emperor [7]
George Wharton [29]
Margaret of Austria Queen Consort Spain [7]
Anna of Austria Holy Roman Empress [9]
Elisabeth Bourbon Queen Consort Spain [2]
Henrietta Maria Bourbon Queen Consort England [2]
John George Wettin Elector Saxony [3]
Frederick William "Great Elector" Hohenzollern Elector Brandenburg [3]
Eleonora Gonzaga Queen Consort Bohemia [18]
Maria Leopoldine Habsburg Spain Queen Consort Bohemia [7]
Hedwig Eleonora Queen Consort Sweden [3]
Marie Françoise Élisabeth of Savoy Queen Consort of Portugal [11]
Charlotte Amalie Hesse-Kassel Queen Consort Denmark and Norway [3]
Victor Amadeus King Sardinia [17]
Louise of Mecklenburg Güstrow Queen Consort Denmark and Norway [3]
Maria Anna Neuburg Queen Consort Spain [6]
Joseph I Holy Roman Emperor [6]
Charles Habsburg Spain VI Holy Roman Emperor [6]
Francis I Holy Roman Emperor [5]
Adolph Frederick King Sweden [3]
Elisabeth Therese Lorraine Queen Consort Sardinia [5]
President George Washington [2]
King George III of Great Britain and Ireland [6]
Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England [3]
Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway [6]
Marie Sophie Hesse-Kassel Queen Consort Denmark and Norway [9]
Caroline of Brunswick Queen Consort England [6]
Frederick William III King Prussia [3]
Frederica Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort Hanover [6]
Queen Fredrika Dorotea Vilhelmina [6]
King Christian I of Norway and VIII of Denmark [9]
Frederick William IV King Prussia [6]
Frederick VII King of Denmark [15]
Queen Louise Hesse-Kassel of Denmark [18]
King Christian IX of Denmark [9]
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [12]
Queen Sophia of Sweden and Norway [15]
Victoria Empress Germany Queen Consort Prussia [33]
King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [33]
Maria Christina of Austria Queen Consort Spain [9]
Brigadier-General Charles Fitz-Clarence [126]
Victoria Mary Teck Queen Consort England [18]
Frederick Charles I King Finland [18]
Alexandrine Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Denmark [24]
Victoria Eugénie Mountbatten Queen Consort Spain [42]
Louise Mountbatten Queen Consort Sweden [51]
Ingrid Bernadotte Queen Consort Denmark [39]
Philip Mountbatten Duke Edinburgh [60]
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom [508]
Carl XVI King Sweden [81]
Queen Consort Camilla Shand [165]
Diana Spencer Princess Wales [1449]
Great x 4 Grandfather: Humbert "White Handed" Savoy I Count Savoy
Great x 3 Grandfather: Otto Savoy
Great x 2 Grandfather: Amadeus Savoy II Count Savoy
Great x 1 Grandfather: Humbert "Fat" Savoy II Count Savoy
Grandfather: Amadeus Savoy III Count Savoy 10 x Great Grandson of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 4 Grandfather: Otto William Ivrea I Count Burgundy
6 x Great Grandson of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 3 Grandfather: Reginald Ivrea I Count Burgundy
7 x Great Grandson of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ermentrude Countess Burgundy
Great x 2 Grandfather: William I Count Burgundy
8 x Great Grandson of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard "Good" II Duke Normandy
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Normandy Countess Burgundy
8 x Great Granddaughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 4 Grandmother: Judith Penthièvre Duchess Normandy 7 x Great Granddaughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 1 Grandmother: Gisela Ivrea Countess Savoy
9 x Great Granddaughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 2 Grandmother: Ettiennette Countess Burgundy
father: Humbert Savoy III Count Savoy 11 x Great Grandson of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Grandmother: Mahaut Albon Countess Savoy
Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy 12 x Great Grandson of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
mother: Beatrice Macon Countess Savoy