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Humbert III OF SAVOY (1136-1189)
Name: | Humbert III OF SAVOY 1,2 |
Sex: | Male |
Father: | Amadeus III OF SAVOY (1095?-1148) |
Mother: | Mahaud (Mathilde) D'ALBON ( -aft1145) |
Individual Events and Attributes
Birth | 4 Aug 1136 | Avigliana, Italy |
Occupation | frm 1148 to 1189 (age 11-53) | Count of Savoy, Maurienne and Turin |
Group/Caste Membership | House of Savoy | |
Marriage Count | 4 | |
Child Count | 3 | |
founded | 1188 (age 51-52) | the Monastery of Sant'Antonio di Ranverso |
monk | Haute-Combe | |
Death | 4 Mar 1189 (age 52) | Chambéry, France |
beatified | 1838 (age 701-702) 3 | |
Burial | Cistercian Abbey of Haute-Combe, Savoy |
Additional Information
beatified | Pope Gregory XVI (cultus confirmed) |
Marriage
Coat of Arms for the Counts of Savoy | ||
Spouse | Beatrix OF MACON ( -bef1230) | |
Children | Thomas I OF SAVOY (1178-1233) | |
Marriage | 1175 (age 38-39) |
Individual Note
Umberto III (1135, Avigliana, Piedmont - 1189), surnamed the Blessed, was Count of Savoy from 1148 to 1189. His parents were Amadeus III of Savoy and Mahaut (or Mafalda, or Matilda) of Albon, the sister of Guy IV of Dauphinois. His memorial day is March 4.
According to Cope[1]:
"Umberto III, who reigned from 1149 to 1189...was a man of irresolute spirit who was disconsolate at being born a prince and preferred the seclusion of a monastery. He only renounced his chosen state of celibacy so as to give his land an heir."
His first wife died young; his second marriage ended in divorce. Umberto gave up and became a Carthusian monk. However, the nobles and common people of Savoy begged him to marry yet again, which he reluctantly did. This third wife gave him two more daughters, and Umberto attempted to return to the monastic life yet again. Finally he was prevailed upon to marry for a fourth time, and this wife, Beatrice, produced the son who would ultimately succeed him.
In 1188 he founded the Monastery of Sant'Antonio di Ranverso.
Family
Umberto married four times:
Faidiva of Toulouse (Italian) (d. abt 1154) daughter of Alphonse I of Toulouse
Gertrude of Flanders (m. abt 1155), whom he divorced and confined. She was freed thanks to Robert, bishop of Cambrai and returned to the court of her brother, Philip of Flanders
Clementia of Zähringen (married 1164), daughter of Conrad I of Zähringen. They had 2 daughters:
Sofia, (1165–1202), married Azzo VI of Este
Alicia, (1166–1178), betrothed to John of England
Beatrice of Viennois and had 1 son:
Tommaso (born 1178)
NOTE:
1 Cope, Christopher.The Lost Kingdom of Burgundy4
Sources
1 | Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 130, 133-26; 264, 274C-26. |
2 | "Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dodson". |
3 | "saints.sqpn.com". http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-humbert-iii-of-savoy/. |
4 | "Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_III,_Count_of_Savoy. |