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Amedeo di Saluzzo (1361 – 28 June 1419) was a cardinal during the Western Schism. He was born as the second son of Frederick II, Marquess of Saluzzo and Beatrice...

Victor Amadeus II (Vittorio Amedeo Francesco; 14 May 1666 – 31 October 1732) was the head of the House of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from...

revolt in Aosta Valley against Amadeus, but he was able to crush it with the help of Manfred III of Saluzzo and Boniface II of Montferrat, who were his sons-in-law...

King of Sicily between 1258 and 1259. She was regent of Saluzzo during the minority of her son in 1244. She was a daughter of Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy...

marquess of Saluzzo from 1357 to his death. He succeeded his father, Thomas II of Saluzzo. His mother was Ricciarda Visconti, a daughter of Galeazzo I...

of Savoy and the Dauphins of Viennois. Amadeus also forced the Marquess of Saluzzo to pay him tribute, thus extending his rule to the Italian side of...

father Manfred III. He was also the grandson of Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy. Under the reign of Thomas, Saluzzo blossomed, achieving a greatness which had...

Piedmont and Oneglia, Marquis (of the Holy Roman Empire) in Italy, of Saluzzo, Susa, Ivrea, Ceva, Maro, Oristano, Sezana, Count of Maurienne, Nice, Tende, Asti...

possession of the House of Savoy. It was created when Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, raised the County of Savoy into a duchy for Amadeus VIII. The duchy...

1244) was the third Marquess of Saluzzo, from 1215 to his death. He was the son of Boniface of Saluzzo and Maria di Torres of Sassari (in Sardinia). Since...

Thomas III of Saluzzo (Italian: Tommaso III di Saluzzo) (1356–1416) was Marquess of Saluzzo from 1396 until his death. He was born in Saluzzo in north-western...

1330) was the fifth marquess of Saluzzo from 1296, the son of Thomas I and Luisa of Ceva. Manfred forced the commune of Saluzzo (granted it by his father)...

hunchbacked. In the autumn of 1588, taking advantage of the civil war weakening France, he occupied the Marquisate of Saluzzo, which was under French protection...

Peter I (c. 1048 – 9 August 1078) was count of Savoy and margrave of Turin jointly with his brother Amadeus II of Savoy from c. 1060 to 1078. He ruled only...

Marquess of Saluzzo from 1330 until his death. He was the eldest son of Manfred IV of Saluzzo by his first wife Beatrice, daughter of King Manfred of Sicily...

Marguerite of Burgundy (referred to as Anne by some sources; 1192–1243), was Countess of Savoy from 1233 until her death by marriage to Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy...

Manfred V was marquess of Saluzzo from 1330 and 1332, and later usurper from 1341–1342. He was the second son of Manfred IV of Saluzzo and first by his second...

Azalaïs of Montferrat (also Adelasia or Alasia) (1150–1232) was Marchioness consort of Saluzzo by marriage to Manfred II of Saluzzo, and regent for her...

countered by an alliance between Montferrat, Thomas II, Marquess of Saluzzo, and Humbert II of Viennois. Pope Clement VI spent 1348 negotiating a truce and...

served as dean of the cathedral church of Santa Maria di Saluzzo in Saluzzo. Upon the recommendation of Paleologo's brother-in-law James II of Cyprus, Pope...