Joan of Geneva
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Joan of Geneva (born c. 1040; died 1095)[1] was a Countess Consort of Savoy; married to Amadeus II, Count of Savoy.
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Joan of Geneva.
According to the much later Chronicles of Savoy, Amadeus married Joan, daughter of "Girard, Count of Burgundy", which scholars have surmised to have been Count . The says only that "the wife of Amadeus [was] from Burgundy", which might refer to Amadeus I.[2] If his wife were Genevan, it would explain how the house of Savoy came so early to possess a large portion of the Genevois.[3] His wife, whatever her name and origins, bore Amadeus II several children, although there is some uncertainty about how many:
- Adelaide, wife of Manasses, sire de Coligny
- Ausilia (also Auxilia or Usilia), second wife of Humbert II de Beaujeu, whom she bore four sons by the last decade of the eleventh century: Guichard, Humbert, Guigues, and Hugh
References[]
- ^ "Jeanne de Genève". Geni.
- ^ Quoted in Previté-Orton, 243: uxor ejus [Amedei] de Burgondia.
- ^ Previté-Orton, 243.
Categories:
- 1040 births
- 1095 deaths
- 11th-century Italian nobility
- 11th-century Italian women
- Countesses of Savoy
- 11th-century French people
- 11th-century French women
- House of Geneva