Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy

Amadeus VI
Detail of Amadeus in a fresco by Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze in the Spanish Chapel: Allegory of the Active and Triumphant Church and of the Dominican order c. 1365
Count of Savoy
Reign1343–1383
PredecessorAymon
SuccessorAmadeus VII
Born4 January 1334
Chambéry, County of Savoy, Holy Roman Empire
Died1 March 1383(1383-03-01) (aged 49)
Castropignano, Kingdom of Naples
SpouseBonne of Bourbon
IssueAmadeus VII of Savoy
HouseSavoy
FatherAymon, Count of Savoy
MotherYolande of Montferrat

Amadeus VI (4 January 1334[1] – 1 March 1383[2]), nicknamed the Green Count (Italian: Il Conte Verde) was Count of Savoy from 1343 to 1383. He was the eldest son of Aymon, Count of Savoy, and Yolande Palaeologina of Montferrat. Though he started under a regency, he showed himself to be a forceful leader, continuing Savoy's emergence as a power in Europe politically and militarily. He participated in a crusade against the Turks who were moving into Europe.

  1. ^ Cox 1967, pp. 11–13.
  2. ^ Cox 1967, pp. 336–337.