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Matilda of Savoy

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Noble family
  
House of Savoy

Mother
  
Catherine of Geneva


Died
  
1438

Name
  
Matilda Savoy

Matilda of Savoy

Spouse(s)
  
Louis III, Elector Palatine

Father
  
Amadeo, Prince of Achaea

Matilda (Mechtilde) of Savoy (1390–1438) was a daughter of Amadeo, Prince of Achaea (also known as Amadeus of Piedmont or Amadeus of Savoy) and Catherine of Geneva. She was the second wife of the Elector Palatine Louis III, whom she married on 30 November 1417.

Matilda had the following five children:

  1. Mathilde (7 March 1419 – 1 October 1482), married:
    1. in 1434 to Count Louis I of Württemberg
    2. in 1452 to Duke Albrecht VI of Austria
  2. Louis IV, Elector Palatine (1 January 1424 – 13 August 1449)
  3. Frederick I, Elector Palatine (1 August 1425 – 12 December 1476)
  4. Rupprecht (27 February 1427 – 26 July 1480), Prince-elector archbishop of the Archbishopric of Cologne
  5. Margarete (ca. 1428 – 23 November 1466), a nun at Liebenau monastery

References

Matilda of Savoy Wikipedia