Louis, Duke of Savoy

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Louis (Ludovico or Lodovico in Italian) (1413 – 1465) was Duke of Savoy from 1440 until his death.

He married Anne of Lusignan (1419-1462), a heiress of Cyprus and Jerusalem (she was the secondary heiress all her lifetime, as her niece Queen Charlotte of Cyprus outlived her) and a daughter of King Janus of Cyprus. They had 19 children, 5 of whom died young:

Amadeus (1435-1472)
Maria (1436-1437)
Louis (b.1436-d.1482), married Queen Regnant Charlotte of Cyprus.
Philip (1438-1497)
Margaret (1439-1483)
Giano, Count of Geneva (1440-1491)
Pietro, Bishop of Geneva (1440-1458)
Janus, Count of Faucigny, Governor of Nice. (1440-1491)
Charlotte (b.1441-d.1483), married Louis XI of France
Aimone (1442-1443)
Giacomo d. 1445
Agnese (1445-1508)
Giovanni Ludovico, Bishop of Geneva (1447-1482)
Maria (1448-1475)
Bona (b.1449-d.1503), married Galeazzo Maria Sforza, duke of Milan
Giacomo, Count of Romont, lord of Vaud (1450-1486)
Anne (1452-1452)
Francesco, Archbishop of Auch & Bishop of Geneva (1454-1490)
Giovanna d. young.

In 1453 he received, from Margaret de Charny, the Shroud of Turin, which would be property of the house of Savoy until 1946, at the end of the Kingdom of Italy. The Shroud of Turin was bequeathed to the Holy See in 1983. He may also have been one of Leonardo da Vinci's later patrons.