Margaret (Beatrix) OF GENEVA (1180?-1257)

	Tomb of Margaret of Geneva

Individual Events and Attributes

Marriage

	Coat of Arms for the Counts of Savoy		Beatrix of Savoy, Countess of Provence

Individual Note

Marguerite of Geneva (died 1252) was the daughter of William I, Count of Geneva and Beatrice de Faucigny. She was supposed to become the third wife of Philip II of France but was abducted by Thomas I of Savoy in 1195, while on her way to Paris. 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).

She was the direct matrilineal ancestor of Mary, Queen of Scots.

The children of Marguerite and Thomas I of Savoy were:

Amadeus IV of Savoy (1197–1253)

Humbert (d. 1223)

Thomas, Count of Flanders, count in Piedmont

Aimone (d. 1237), Lord of Chablais

William of Savoy, Bishop of Valence and Dean of Vienne

Amadeus of Savoy, Bishop of Maurienne

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

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)

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Marguerite (Beatrix) of Geneva³

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