Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy
. Amadeus VI, "The Green Count " (* January 4, 1334 in Chambery, † March 1, 1383 in Campobasso) was Count of Savoy from 1343 to 1383. He received his nickname because he appeared at jousting tournaments in Chambery in a green armor and loved green clothing. Amadeus made his reputation as both a knight and in a campaign against the Ottomans. He introduced a new policy on his house by his Italian possessions gave more attention than those northwest of the Alps.
Life
Amadeus inherited at the age of nine years, the county of his father Aymon. His uncle Ludwig II of Savoy was his guardian by the year 1349. 1355 the Count married to Bonne de Bourbon (1341-1402), daughter of Duke Pierre I de Bourbon and niece of the French king Philip VI. of Valois. With her he had his only surviving child; his successor Amadeus VII of Savoy.
The Earl fought with the king of France against England and against the Marquis of Saluzzo, which was made by him lehnspflichtig, let him take captured by English privateers and free for a ransom of 180,000 guilders. His cousin, James of Piedmont, he sat trapped in 1360 and took his fealty. The Count also wrestled with the Marquis of Montferrat to claim ownership. In martial conducted quarrels he was successful from 1352.
Amadeus acquired the province Faucigny and secured in 1355 in the Treaty of Paris that acquisition as well as the boundaries between Savoy and the Dauphiné from. On July 21, 1356 succeeded the Count, to obtain from the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, the hereditary title of an imperial vicar for the parts belonging to the realm of the ancient kingdom Arelat, so that now owed him, among other things, the Bishop of Geneva tribute.
In 1366 he led a campaign against the Ottomans and the Bulgarians on the western Black Sea coast. In the same year he took the cities Sosopolis, Mesembrija, Skafida, Anchialo and ordered the destruction of the latter to. He failed in the attempt to capture of Varna and then entered into peace with the Bulgarian rulers Ivan Alexander and the despot Dobrotitsa. He was able to rid the Byzantine Emperor John Palaeologus, his cousin, who had called him for help from Bulgarian captivity. In 1367 he defeated the Ottomans at Gallipoli.
He mediated between Milan and the house of Montferrat ( 1379 ), and between Venice and Genoa, after the War of Chioggia ( 1381 ).
Amadeus was the first sovereign who introduced a system of free legal aid for the poor. The Count's management system was reorganized. In 1362 he donated a necklace medal for his knighthood. He was very wealthy and was regarded as one of the greatest princes of his century. He supported Louis, Duke of Anjou in his claim to Naples and died during the campaign of the plague.