Louis, Duke of Savoy

Louis I (Ludovico I or Lodovico I in Italian; 21 February 1412/1413 – 29 January 1465) was Duke of Savoy from 1440 until his death.

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Life

He was born at Geneva the son of Antipope Felix V and Mary of Burgundy; he was the first to hold the title of Prince of Piedmont. He married at Chambéry on 1 November 1433 (or 12 February 1434) Anne of Cyprus, a Princess and an 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. During his reign, the Savoyard troops attempted a conquest of the Milan, then under the Repubblica Ambrosiana, but they failed.

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. Louis died at Lyon in 1465, while returning from France.

Family and issue

Louis and Anne of Cyprus had 18 children, 5 of whom died young:

  1. Amadeus IX (1 February 1435 - 30 March 1472).
  2. Louis of Savoy, Count of Geneva (5 June 1436 - August 1482).
  3. Giovanni (1437–1440).
  4. Maria (1437).
  5. Philip II (5 February 1438 - 7 November 1497).
  6. Marguerite (1439 - 9 March 1483), married firstly in December 1458 Giovanni IV Paleologo (1413–1464), Marquis of Montferrat and secondly Pierre II de Luxembourg, Count of St. Pol, of Brienne, de Ligny, Marle, and Soissons.
  7. Giano, Count of Faucigny and Geneva (8 November 1440 - 22 December 1491).
  8. Pietro, Bishop of Geneva (1440 - 21 October 1458).
  9. Charlotte (1441- 1 December 1483), married King Louis XI of France.
  10. Aimone (1442–1443).
  11. Giacomo (1445 - 20 June 1445).
  12. Agnes (1446 - 15 March 1509), married François d'Orléans-Longueville, Count of Dunois.
  13. Giovanni Ludovico, Bishop of Geneva (1447 - 4 July 1482).
  14. Maria (20 March 1448 - 1475), married Louis of Luxembourg, Count of St. Pol, of Brienne, de Ligny, and Conversano, Constable of France.
  15. Bona (1449–1503), married Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan.
  16. Giacomo, Count of Romont, lord of Vaud (12 November 1450 - 30 January 1486).
  17. Anna (1452).
  18. Francesco, Archbishop of Auch and Bishop of Geneva (1454 - 6 October 1490).

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Notes

Louis, Duke of Savoy
Born: 21 February 1413 Died: 29 January 1465
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Amadeus VIII		 Duke of Savoy
1440–1465		 Succeeded by
Amadeus IX