Margaret of Geneva
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Margaret of Geneva (c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1179–c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1258[1]), was a countess of Savoy by marriage to Thomas I of Savoy.Template:Sfn She was the daughter of William I, Count of Geneva, and Beatrice de Faucigny (1160–1196).Template:Sfn
Life
Margaret was supposed to become the third wife of Philip II of France.Template:Sfn However, when her father was escorting her to France in May 1195, Thomas I of Savoy carried her off.Template:Sfn Attracted by her beauty, Count Thomas then married her himself,Template:Sfn 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.
After her death, she was buried at Hautecombe Abbey in Savoy.
Issue
The children of Marguerite and Thomas I of Savoy were:
- Amadeus IV of Savoy (1197–1253)Template:Sfn
- Humbert (d. 1223)Template:Sfn
- Thomas, Count of Flanders (c. 1199–1259), count in PiedmontTemplate:Sfn
- Aimone (d. 1237), Lord of ChablaisTemplate:Sfn
- William of Savoy (d. 1239), Bishop of Valence and Dean of VienneTemplate:Sfn
- Peter II of Savoy (1203-1268),Template:Sfn Earl of Richmond and later disputed count of Savoy
- Philip I of Savoy (1207-1285), archbishop of Lyon, later Count Palatine of Burgundy by marriageTemplate:Sfn
- Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury (c. 1207–1270)Template:Sfn
- Beatrice of Savoy (1205 – 4 January 1267), wife of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence.Template:Sfn
- Margaret of Savoy (d. 1273), wife of Hartmann I of KyburgTemplate:Sfn
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