Amadeus III. received from Henry V. of Germany the investiture of all Savoy as an Imperial county. Amadeus recovered elso in part his ancestral Italian dominions, above all, the city of Turin, of which he was acknowledged lord in the year 1131. Count Amadeus III. proceeded with the crusade to Syria, and died of disease at Nicosia in the island of Cyprus, in the year 1148. He was the founder of the magnificent abbey of Hautocombe in Savoy, which was for ages after the burial-place of his deacendanta. His daughter Matilda married Affonso L, the founder of the Portuguese monarchy.
1149-88. Humbert Ill., called 'the Saint,' son of Amadeus succeeded him as count of Savoy and marquis of Italy. He compelled Manfred, marquis of Saluzzo, to acknowledge himself his vassaL But the emperor Frederick L deprived him of part of his dominions, among the rest of Turin, creating the bishop of that city prince of the empire. Frederie also burnt the town and castle of Suss in 1174, when the archives of the house of Savoy are said to have perished in the flames. Humbert was fond of religious retirement, and spent much of his time in the abbey of Hautecombe, He (lied in 1188.
1188.1233. Thomas L succeeded his father Humbert III. Philip of Swabia restored to him all the titles and prerogatives of which his father had been deprived by Frederio I. Thomas purchased the seignory of Chambery, and enlarged the town and built the castle. Until this time Aiguebelle had been the capital and residence of the count, of Savoy. Count Thomas died in January, 1233.
1233-53. Amadeus 1V., eon of Thomas, recovered the dominion over Turin, and be was created by Frederick II. duke of tho Chablais and of Aosta. He died in 1253, and was buried at Hantecombe. Amadeus gave up to his brother Thomas, count of Flanders, the 'utile dominium ' of his Italian states with the title of count of Piedmont, retaining however the suizeraintd for himself.
1253-63. Boniface, the infect son of Amadeus, was placed under the guardianship of his uncle Thomas, count of Flanders. The people of Turin having revolted again and being supported by the free city of Asti, took Thomas prisoner. When Boniface became of age. he crossed the Alps, and laid siege to Turin, but the Marquis of Moutferrato, and Charles, count of Anjou, marched against him and took him prisoner. Bonifacs died in prison at Turin, and left no issue.
126368. Peter, eon of Count Thomas I., and uncle of Boniface, born In 1203, succeeded to his nephew. By affinity, he was uncle of Henry IIL of England, who had married Eleanor of Provence, daughter of Beatrix of Savoy, Peter's sister. In 124] Peter had repaired to England, and had been received with great honours by Henry and his consort. Henry made him earl of Richmond, and gave him for his residence a palace near London on the banks of the Thames, which was from that circumstance called Savoy House. Peter, first care on his accession was to reduce the city of Turin, in which he succeeded after a loug siege. Peter afterwards obtained the inheritance of Hartmann, count of Kyburg, who had married Peter's sister, and who died without issue in 1264. This inheritance extended along the northern banks of the Lake of Geneva, and through this and the grant. of former emperors to Peter's ancestors the house of Savoy became posse/1(0d of the whole of the Barony, now the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Peter died in the castle of Chinon on the shore of the Lake of Geneva, in 1263, and was buried at Hautecombe. He left only one daughter by his wife Agnes. heiress of the barony of Faucleny. This daughter, -Beatrix, made subsequently is donation of that barony to Amadeus V.
1268-84. Philip L, Peter's brother, succeeded him as count of Savoy in his old age. Ile died at the castle of Roussillon in the Bogey, leaving no issue.
1295-1323. Amadeus V., styled the Great, son of Thomas, oount of Flanders, succeeded his uncle Philip. Ha made frequent wars with the dauphin of Vienne and with the counts of Geneva, whom be repeatedly defeated. He gave Piedmont in fief to his nephew Philip, who, having married, In 1304, Isabella of Villehsrdouin, heiress of the principalities of Aehala and Mores, received the investiture of the same from Charles IL of Anjou, king of Naples and count of Provence. In 1323 he went to Avignon, to induce Pope John XXII. to preach a crusade in order to save the Byzantine empire, and whose emperor, Andronicus the Younger, married Anna of Savoy, daughter of Amadeus. Amadeus fell ill and died at Avignon, 1323.