Amédée Ier of Savoy

Amédée Ier of Savoy , called the Tail (towards 1016 - 1051),

second count de Savoie and of Maurienne of 1047 with 1051
wire of Humbert-with-White-Hands and its Ancilia wife of Aoste (or of Lenzbourg).

Amédée Ier married a named princess Adalgide, Adèle or Adelaide, but did not have children, and to its death, the crown passed to the hands of his/her brother Othon, Oddon or Eudes.

Another source gives him three children:

Humbert († 1051)
Aymon († 1060), bishop of Belley
Thiberge, married about 1053 in Louis Ier († 1060) lord of Faucigny, then in Gérold II († 1080), count de Genève.

Succession of Savoy generally being done in male primogeniture, and Aymon, monk, not being able to inherit the county, the county passed to Othon Ist.

Its reign

Its nickname of the Tail comes from the time of the crowning of the sovereign of the Holy roman Empire Henri III the Black, in which it took part, followed by a many continuation of gentilhommes, to which it was given the nickname of “ tail ”. The chroniclers report that to Vérone, it was presented to the council followed its gentilhommes. With the usher who requested it “to want to make withdraw this large troop which estait with its tail”, it insisted and made great noise. The emperor, informed, said: “that one lets it return and that it leaves its tail outside”, it with what the count Amédée exclaimed: “If my prick does not enter there with me, I will not enter there there, and leaves you”, then the emperor ordered that the door was opened to the count and with his tail.

“One day Occurred, tells Paradin, that the count presented himself to the door of the room where tenoit the council, and having run up, the door presented was incontinent for him, for its person only, requesting it the usher of the council to want to make withdraw this large troop which estoit with its tail; with what not wanting to agree, did not want the usher to allow the entry: it persisted still so haultement that the emperor oyant the noise asked that it estoit, the usher answers that it estoit the count de Maurienne who menoit after oneself a great number of gentlemen. At the time, known as the emperor, that one lets it enter and that it leaves his tail outside: what having heard, the count answered with dissatisfaction: if my prick does not enter there with me, I will not enter there there and leaves you. Then the emperor ordered that the door was opened to the count and with his tail. ”

He founded the priory of Le Bourget and he took the control of the fort of Hermillon close to Saint-Jean-with-Maurienne. Under its reign, the exodus from the peasants, too many began in the narrow valleys, towards the grounds of altitude in the mountains, which hitherto were covered with immense and thick forests. The first plates of altitude were conquered by the peasants of the Vallée of Arve and the Faucigny. To their example, the peasants of Maurienne, Tarentaise left to the conquest pionnière the heights their valleys.

To its death in 1051, the succession passed to his/her brother Othon Ier of Savoy (1023 - 1060).

Under its reign, lived:

Guillaume della Chiusa, monk Benedictine, author of the oldest chronicle of Savoy in Latin worms. Originating in the Valley of Maurienne, he says to have written his chronicles starting from oral traditions, because all the documents of its monastery were set fire to or devastated by the Sarrasins.

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