Louis, Duke of Savoy

Louis
Etching by Francesco Maria Ferrero di Lavriano (1702)
Duke of Savoy
Reign	1440 - 29 January 1465
Predecessor	Amadeus VIII
Successor	Amadeus IX
Born	(1413-02-24)24 February 1413 Geneva
Died	29 January 1465(1465-01-29) (aged 51) Lyon
Spouse	Anne of Cyprus
Issue	Amadeus IX Louis Philip II Marguerite Charlotte Maria Bona Giacomo
House	House of Savoy
Father	Amadeus VIII
Mother	Mary of Burgundy

Louis I (Ludovico I or Lodovico I in Italian; 24 February 1413 – 29 January 1465) was Duke of Savoy from 1440 until his death in 1465.

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. On 1 November 1433 (or 12 February 1434), at Chambéry, he married Princess Anne of Cyprus, an heiress of the Kingdom of Cyprus and the defunct Kingdom of 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.) The family lived in Allaman Castle, Vaud/Switzerland and as Count de Vaud, Savoy tried to conquer the Duchy of Milan, then under the Repubblica Ambrosiana, but failed.

In 1453 he received the Shroud of Turin from Margaret de Charny. It was held by the House of Savoy until 1946, at the end of the Kingdom of Italy and bequeathed to the Holy See in 1983.

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

Coat of Arms of the Dukes of Savoy

Issue

1. Amadeus IX (Thonon, 1 February 1435 - 30 March 1472), Duke of Savoy.
2. Louis (Thonon, 5 June 1436 - Ripaille, 12 July 1482), Count of Geneva, King of Cyprus.
3. Marie (Morges, March 1437 - Thonon, 1 December 1437).
4. Jean (1437? - 1440).
5. Philip II (Thonon, 5 February 1438 - Torino, 7 November 1497), Duke of Savoy.
6. Marguerite (Pinerolo, April 1439 - Brugge, 9 March 1485), married firstly in December 1458 Giovanni IV Paleologo, Marquis of Montferrat and secondly Pierre II de Luxembourg, Count of St. Pol, of Brienne, de Ligny, Marle, and Soissons.
7. Pierre (Genève, ca. 2 February 1440 - Torino, 21 October 1458), Archbishop of Tarentasia.
8. Janus (Genève, 8 November 1440 - Annecy, 22 December 1491), Count of Faucigny and Geneva, married Helene of Luxembourg, daughter of Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, and his first wife Jeanne de Bar, Countess of Marle and Soissons.
9. Charlotte (Chambéry, 16 November 1441 - Amboise, 1 December 1483), married King Louis XI of France.
10. Aimon (Genève, 2 November 1442 – Genève, 30 March 1443).
11. Jacques (Genève, 29 November 1444 - Genève 1 June 1445).
12. Agnes (Chambéry, October 1445 - Paris, 16 March 1509), married François d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville. Their son is Louis I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville.
13. Jean Louis (Genève, 26 February 1447 - Torino, 4 July 1482), Bishop of Genève.
14. Maria (Pinerolo, 20 March 1448 - 13 September 1475), married Louis of Luxembourg, Count of St. Pol, of Brienne, de Ligny, and Conversano, Constable of France.
15. Bona (Avigliana, 12 August 1449 – Fossano, 17 November 1503), married Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan.
16. Giacomo (Genève, 12 November 1450 - Ham in Picardy, 30 January 1486), Count of Romont, Lord of Vaud.
17. Anne (Genève, September 1452 - Genève, 1 October 1452).
18. François (Annecy, 19 August 1454, - Torino 6 October 1490), Archbishop of Auch and Bishop of Geneva.
19. Jeanne (died at birth, 1455?).

Ancestry

Family of Louis, Duke of Savoy

16. Aimone, Count of Savoy 8. Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy 17. Yolande Palaeologina of Montferrato 4. Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy 18. Peter I, Duke of Bourbon 9. Bonne of Bourbon 19. Isabella of Valois 2. Amadeus VIII of Savoy 20. John II of France = 12 10. John, Duke of Berry 21. Bonne of Bohemia = 13 5. Bonne of Berry 22. John I of Armagnac 11. Joanna of Armagnac 23. Beatrice of Clermont 1. Louis, Duke of Savoy 24. Philip VI of France 12. John II of France 25. Joan of Burgundy 6. Philip II, Duke of Burgundy 26. John of Bohemia 13. Bonne of Bohemia 27. Elisabeth of Bohemia 3. Mary of Burgundy 28. Louis I of Flanders 14. Louis II of Flanders 29. Margaret I, Countess of Burgundy 7. Margaret III, Countess of Flanders 30. John III, Duke of Brabant 15. Margaret of Brabant 31. Marie d'Évreux