1823.29. Edward, son of Amadeus, succeeded him. He had to repel the repeated attack, of the dauphin of Vienne, the count of Geneva, and the baron of Fancigny, who were leagued against him. At last, through the mediation of Philip of Valois, king of France, peace was made. The count of Savoy, in 1328, led a body of men to Join king Philip against the Flemish, and contributed to the defeat of the latter by the French at Mont Cassel. After the termination of that war Count Edward went to Paris, where he fell ill and died, in November 1329, leaving no male issue.
1330-43. Aymon, Edward's brother, was proclaimed his successor by the states of Savoy, in preference to Edward's daughter, who was married to the Duke of Brittany. His reign was peaceful. He applied himself to improve the administration. He created the office of chancellor as the head of the judicial order ; and he also established a supreme council of justice at Chamb6ry, to hear appeals from the local courts. Aymon married Yolanda, daughter of Theodore Palcco logua, marquis of Moutferrato, and son of Andronicus tho Elder, emperor of Constantinople. He died at 31ontmelian in 1343.
1343-83. Amadeua VL, son of Aymou, succeeded. His long reign was eminently successful. He drove away the Anjou(' from Southern Piedmont; he defeated the Marquis of Montferrato, who was leagued egainat him with the Visconti of Milan ; ho received the voluntary allegiance of Chieri, Mondovi, and other towns; and he consolidated and greatly extended the dominion of the house of Savoy on the Italian aide of the Alps.
1383-91. Amadeus VII. succeeded his father Amadeus VI. He soon after proceeded to the assistance of Charles VL of France against the united Flemish and English, and distinguished himself in several actions. On his return home, he made the important acquisition of the county of Nice, the people of which chose him for their sovereign in 1388. Amadeus VII. died in 1391 of a fall from his horse, while hunting the boar in the forest of Lornes in the Chablais.
1391-1440. Amadeus VIII., son of the preceding, succeeded his father. By the extinction of the line of the couuta of Geneva, he inherited the county of Genevois, and the suzeraintd• over the impe rial city of Geneva. He purchased the valley of Ossola from the sirisona. He obliged the marquises of Saluzzo and of Ceva to swear allegiance to him ; and lie obtained of Filippo Maria Visconti, duke of Milan, the cession of the town of Vercelli and its territory west of the Sesia. In 1418, Louis of Savoy, prince of Melva and Achaia, and
prince of Piedmont, dying without issue, Amadeus, his next heir, reunited the principality of Piedmont to his other duminions, which thus extended without interruption from the shores of the Lake of Geneva to those of the Mediterranean Sea, and Rhoue to the Sesia. The • emperor Sigisruund, on passing through Chambery, formally created Amadeus duke of Savoy, in 1416, confirming all former investitures granted by his predecessors, and moreover debarring all subjects of the house of Savoy from appealing to tho imperial chamber from judgments pronounced by the duke or his successors. Amadeus VIII. collected the edicts and statutes of his ancestors, and from them compiled a code of laws for all Savoy, under the title of ' Statute Sabaudite,' which he published in 1430. After the death of his wife, Maria Beatrix of Burguudy, in 1434, he retired to the hermitage of Ripaille, leaving the administration of his state to his son Ludovic. In 1439, the council assembled at Basle called him to the Papal chair, which he filled with the title of Felix V. till 1449, when he resigned the tiara to Pope Nicholas V., and retired again to Ripaille. He died in January 1451, at Geneva.
1440-65. Ludovic, son of Amadeus VIII., assumed the ducal crown in consequence of his father's abdication in 1440. He married Anna de Lusignan, of the royal dynasty of Cyprus. His second son, likewise named Ludovie, married Charlotte, heiress of that kingdom, and he was crowned King of Cyprus in 1558; but he and his wife were soon after driven away by Charlotte's illegitimate brother, uud the island ultimately fell into the hands of the Venetians. The title of King of Cyprus and Jerusalem is still assumed by the representa tive of the dynasty of Savoy. Ludovic established the university of Turin; he created a supreme court of justice for l'iedmont, called a Senate ; and he admitted the barons of Piedmont to the first offices of the state, which bad been till then monopolised by the Savoyards. Ludovic died at Lyon, in January 1465, whilst proceeding to the court of his son-in-law Louis Xl. of France.