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The Duchy of Savoy (Italian: Ducato di Savoia; French: Duché de Savoie) was a territorial entity of the Savoyard state that existed from 1416 until 1847 and was a possession of the House of Savoy. It was created when Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor , raised the County of Savoy into a duchy for Amadeus VIII .
Project to join Chablais and Faucigny to Switzerland as new cantons, 1860. This map shows the neutral zone established in 1815, illustrated by a red line running from Ugine to the Avant Pays, crossing the Chaîne de l'Épine. The King of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel I, also called for Swiss neutrality to extend to the northern part of the Duchy of ...
A map of Italy in 1494. By the time Amadeus VIII came to power in the late 14th century, the House of Savoy had gone through a series of gradual territorial expansions and he was elevated by Sigismund, the Holy Roman Emperor, to the Duke of Savoy in 1416. [9]
In 1771 he also abolished real-estate mainmorte on private estates. In this year he also declared that all duties of peasants towards their lords could be redeemed on terms to be set by negotiation between peasant and seigneur. If no agreement was reached, the duke himself would set the terms. This provision gave leverage to the peasants.
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Savoy (/ s ə ˈ v ɔɪ /; [2] French: Savoie ⓘ) [n 1] is a cultural-historical region in the Western Alps.Situated on the cultural boundary between Occitania and Piedmont, the area extends from Lake Geneva in the north to the Dauphiné in the south and west and to the Aosta Valley in the east.
The County of Savoy was elevated to a duchy at the beginning of the 15th century, bringing together all the territories of the Savoyard state and having Amadeus VIII as its first duke. [1] In the 18th century, Duke Victor Amadeus II annexed the Kingdom of Sardinia to the historical possessions of the Duchy, and from then on, the Savoyard dukes ...
The Duchy of Savoy and the other Italian states in 1494. In 1416, the county of Savoy, under Amadeus VIII the Peaceful, and surrounded by the duchies of Milan and Burgundy and the French Dauphiné, was granted the status of duchy within the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Sigismund. In 1418, the Duke of Savoy inherited the Italian province of ...