General Notes

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ID: I21330
Name: Humbert I (The White Handed) Of Savoy
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 972 in Geneva, Switzerland
Birth: ABT 972 in Chambery, Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France
Death: 1 JUL 1042
Death: ABT 1 JUL 1042
Event: TITL Count of Nyon on Lake Geneva

Note:
Founder of the House Of Savoy
Much aid was given the German ruler by a Burgundian noble, Count Humbert White Hands of Savoy; for these services the count was rewarded with large gifts of land. The ancestors of this Humbert came apparently from eastern Saxony, not far from Magdeburg; the earliest known members of the family are the brothers Amadeus and Humbert, who are mentioned in the second half of the tenth century. The oldest possessions of the line of Savoy were the counties of Maurienne (the upper valley of the River Arc), Savoy (the district between Arc, Isre, and the middle course of the Rhone), and also Belley, with Bugey as its chief town.

Catholic Encyclopedia
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13492a.htm
Humbert I, Count of Savoy, byname HUMBERT THE WHITEHANDED, Italian UMBERTO BIANCAMANO (d. c. 1048), count of Savoy and founder of the house of Savoy, whose services to the Holy Roman emperor Conrad II were rewarded with the cession of lands that placed him in control of the strategic Alpine passes between Italy and France.

Humbert, whose origins are surrounded by controversy but who may have been the son of the semilegendary hero Bérold of Saxony, ally of King Rudolf III of Burgundy, made his appearance in history when Rudolf died in 1032, leaving his domains to Conrad II. Already holder of extensive territories commanding the Little St. Bernard Pass, Humbert also gained control of the Great St. Bernard Pass and the northern approach to the Simplon Pass as a result of family connections and through his alliance with Conrad, who wanted the Alpine routes in friendly hands. In 1033 he led troops of Archbishop Heribert of Milan and Margrave Boniface of Tuscany, defending Conrad's inheritance against Eudes (Odo) of Champagne, whom he pursued into Lorraine, defeated, and killed. When Everard, bishop of the neighbouring region of Maurienne, bordering on the northern approach to the Mont-Cenis pass, refused to pay homage to Conrad, Humbert seized and burned the city of Saint-Jean de Maurienne in 1035. Rewarded with new territories, Humbert, as Conrad's most faithful vassal, exercised power over lands that sealed Lombardy off from France while making it accessible to the Emperor. [Encyclopaedia Britannica 97 CD, HUMBERT I]


Father: Berthold (De Maurienne) Of Savoy b: ABT 945 in Provence, France
Mother: Hinna Von Scheyern b: ABT 945

Marriage 1 Ancelie Von Lenzburg b: ABT 974 in Geneva, Switzerland
Children
Amadeus I Of Savoy b: ABT 1010
Odo I De Maurienne b: ABT 1002 in Chambery, Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France[Berthold (De Maurienne) Of Savoy.ged]