Ancestral Trails 2016 » Victor Amadeus de SAVOY I (1587-1637)

Personal data Victor Amadeus de SAVOY I 


Household of Victor Amadeus de SAVOY I

He is married to Christine Marie de FRANCE.

They got married on February 10, 1619 at Palais du Louvre, Ile de France, France, he was 31 years old.


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Victor Amadeus I (Italian: Vittorio Amedeo I di Savoia; 8 May 1587 - 7 October 1637) was the Duke of Savoy from 1630-37. He was titular King of Cyprus and Jerusalem. He was also known as the Lion of Susa.

He was born in Turin, Piedmont to Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy and Catherine Micaela of Spain, daughter of King Philip II of Spain. He spent much of his childhood at the Spanish court in Madrid, at the court of his grandfather Philip II. He stayed there until the king's death in 1598, when Victor Amadeus was 11. When his brother, Filippo Emanuele, died in 1605, he became legitimate heir to the Duchy of Savoy and received the homage of the court at Racconigi on 21 January 1607.

Victor Amadeus became Duke of Savoy after his father's death in 1630. Charles Emmanuel's policies had brought a great instability in the relationships with both France and Spain, and troops were needed to defend the Duchy. As money was lacking to recruit mercenaries or train indigenous soldiers, Victor Amadeus signed a peace treaty with Spain.

With the Treaty of Cherasco, Savoy was forced to give Pinerolo to France. This gave France a strategic route into the heart of Savoy territory and on into the rest of Italy. The rulers of Savoy from that point resented this loss, and worked for decades with the goal of regaining that loss. Subsequently, under the direction of Cardinal Richelieu, Victor Amadeus attempted to create an anti-Spanish league in Italy. He achieved two victories against the Spanish: In 1636 in the Battle of Tornavento and on 8 September 1637 in the Battle of Mombaldone.

On 25 September of that year, Victor Amadeus fell ill after a dinner offered by the Duke of Créqui. He was carried to Vercelli, where he died on 7 October, aged 50.

In 1619, he married Christine Marie of France (1606-1663), a daughter of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici. Following his death, she served as regent of the Duchy from 1637 to 1663. They had children including:

Stillborn son (1621)
Prince Louis Amadeus of Savoy (Turin, 1622 - Turin, 1628)
Princess Louise Christine of Savoy (Turin, 27 July 1629 - Turin, 14 May 1692), married her uncle Prince Maurice of Savoy
Prince Francis Hyacinth of Savoy (Turin, 14 September 1632 - Castello del Valentino, 4 October 1638), Duke of Savoy
Prince Charles Emmanuel of Savoy (20 June 1634 - Palace of Venaria, 12 June 1675), Duke of Savoy; married first his first cousin Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans and had no issue; secondly married another first cousin Marie Jeanne of Savoy and had issue;
Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy (Turin, 15 November 1635 - Parma, 29 April 1663), married Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma; had two stillborn children; died giving birth to her last child;
Princess Henrietta Adelaide Marie of Savoy (Turin, 6 November 1636 - Munich, 18 March 1676), married Ferdinand Maria of Wittelsbach, Elector of Bavaria and had issue
Princess Catherine Beatrice of Savoy (Turin, 6 November 1636 - Turin, 26 August 1637) twin of the above
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Amadeus_I,_Duke_of_Savoy

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Birthday May 8, 1587

  • Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1587: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 8 » Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
    • July 22 » Roanoke Colony: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
    • October 31 » Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.

Day of marriage February 10, 1619

  • Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1619: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 13 » Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
    • June 10 » Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
    • July 30 » In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.
    • August 28 » Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
    • November 7 » Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
    • December 4 » Thirty-eight colonists arrive at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia. The group's charter proclaims that the day "be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."

Day of death October 7, 1637

  • Stadhouder Prins Frederik Hendrik (Huis van Oranje) was from 1625 till 1647 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
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    • February 15 » Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
    • February 18 » Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
    • May 26 » Pequot War: A combined English and Mohegan force under John Mason attacks a village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Pequots.
    • September 29 » 42-year-old Lorenzo Ruiz dies.


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