Umberto II, Count of Savoy
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: ''Umberto II''), nicknamed the Fat (1065, Carignano,
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– 19 October 1103C.W. Previte-Orton, ''The Early History of the House of Savoy'', (Cambridge University Press, 1912), 276–277.), was Count of Savoy from 1080 until his death in 1103. He was the son of
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. He was married to
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, daughter of
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, and had seven children: * Amadeus III of Savoy (1095-1148) * William,
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, (d. 1154), married to Louis VI of France * Agnes, (d. 1127), married to Archimbald VI, lord of Bourbon * Umberto * Reginald * Guy, abbey of Namur


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