Margaret of Geneva

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Name Margaret Geneva Grandparents Amadeus I of Geneva		Parents William I of Geneva Died 1252

Father William I, Count of Geneva Role Beatrice of Savoy's mother Spouse Thomas, Count of Savoy (m. 1218) Children Beatrice of Savoy, Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy Grandchildren Eleanor of Provence, Margaret of Provence
Great grandchildren Edward I of England

Margaret of Geneva (1180?-1252), countess of Savoy, was the daughter of William I, Count of Geneva, and Beatrice de Faucigny (1160-1196).

She was supposed to become the third wife of Philip II of France. However, when her father was escorting her to France in May 1195, Thomas I of Savoy carried her off. Attracted by her youth and her beauty, Count Thomas then married her himself, claiming that Philip II was already married (the French King had married Ingeborg of Denmark in 1193 but had repudiated her soon thereafter). Margaret's father fell sick and died after the wedding, and her mother died the following year. Margaret was the mother of either 14 or 19 children.

Issue

The children of Marguerite and Thomas I of Savoy were:

Amadeus IV of Savoy (1197–1253)

Helena of Savoy (d. 1230)

Humbert (d. 1223)

Thomas, Count of Flanders, count in Piedmont

Elisabeth of Savoy (d. 1235)

Aimone (d. 1237), Lord of Chablais

Henry (1205-1230), Lord of Lyon

William of Savoy, Bishop of Valence and Dean of Vienne

Amadeus of Savoy, Bishop of Maurienne

Mary of Savoy (d. 1210)

Magdalena of Savoy (d. 1239), abbess of Hautecombe Abbey

Peter II of Savoy, Earl of Richmond and later disputed count of Savoy

Philip I of Savoy, archbishop of Lyon, later Count Palatine of Burgundy by marriage and disputed count of Savoy in 1268

Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury

Beatrice of Savoy (1205 – 4 January 1267), wife of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence. She was married in 1219 and was mother to four queens consort and maternal grandmother of Philip III of France and Edward I of England.

Alasia of Savoy (d. 1250), abbess of St Pierre, Lyon

Agatha of Savoy (d. 1245), abbess of St Pierre, Lyon

Margaret of Savoy (d. 1273), wife of Hartmann I of Kyburg

Avita of Savoy (1215–92), wife of Baldwin de Redvers, 7th Earl of Devon and later of Robert Aguillon (d. 1286)

Margaret was the ancestress of many royal houses, including the Valois and Bourbons. After her death, she was buried at Hautecombe Abbey in Savoy.

References

Margaret of Geneva Wikipedia

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