Aymon, Count of Savoy

Aymon of Savoy called the Peaceful (* December 15, 1273 in Bourg -en- Bresse, † June 22, 1343 in Hautecombe ) was Count of Savoy and the second eldest son of Amadeus V.

After the death of his brother Edward was in 1329 Aymon, Count of Savoy. Aymon reformed the administration, the judiciary and the financial sector of Savoy. In 1330 he created, for example, the Office of the Registrar of Savoy, an institution that had existed for several centuries. In Chambéry, he established a permanent court, he also tried a more uniform taxation was the first to introduce.

In foreign policy, Aymon reached in 1337 the signing of a peace treaty with the Dauphin Humbert II of Dauphinat In the Hundred Years War between France and England, Aymon tried to neutrality. In 1338 he supported with a small contingent of 200 men, the French King Philip VI. 1339 he participated in Esplechin to the armistice negotiations between France and England in part, as a representative of the King of France.

Aymon married on 1 May 1330 Casale to Vercelli in northern Italy Violanta of Montferrat, a daughter of the Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat. This marriage sprang eleven children.

• Amadeus VI. (* 1334 ), who became his successor
• Blanche (* 1336, † December 31, 1387 ) ∞ 1350 Galeas II Visconti
• Johann (* 1338, † 1339 )
• Catherine?
• Ludwig ( * 1342 ), died in infancy
• Humbert (*, ? † 1374 )
• Ogier (*, ? † July 1372 ) ∞ N.? of Meyria,
• Johann (*, ? † 1349 ), a canon to Lausanne and Geneva,
• Marie, in 1355 became engaged to Andre Bonchristiani of Pisa
• Donata, was sister of Bons- en Bugey
• A daughter whose name is not known, married Ludovic of Lucinge

In addition, Aymon had an illegitimate son named Amadeus, another is not known.

Swell

• Marie José: The house Sayoven, Published by the Foundation Pro Castellione, 1994

• Man
• Graf ( Savoy)
• House of Savoy
• Born in 1273
• Died in 1343