Otto (; ; 1023 – 1057/1060) was
count of Savoy
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from around 1051 until his death. Through marriage to
Adelaide
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, the heiress of
Ulric Manfred II, he also administered the
march of Susa from around 1046 until his death.
Family
He was a younger son of
Humbert the White-Handed and his wife, Ancilla of Lenzburg. Through Humbert's service to the
German emperors, the family was granted the
counties
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of
Maurienne
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Location
The Maurienne val ...
,
Aosta
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and
Sapaudia
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Name
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(
Savoy
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), all at the expense of local bishops or archbishops. Otto inherited the family's realms after the death of his brother
Amadeus 1051.
In 1046, he married Adelaide, heiress of the
march of Susa and
county of Turin
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. They had:
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Peter
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(d. 1078)
*
Amadeus (d. 1080)
* Otto
*
Bertha (d. 1087), wife of
Henry IV of Germany
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Adelaide
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(d. 1080), married
Rudolf of Swabia
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Rule
Through his marriage to Adelaide, Otto obtained extensive possessions in northern Italy. Thereafter, the
House of Savoy
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concentrated its expansion efforts towards Italy instead of north of the Alps as it had done before. Savoy's lands occupied much of modern
Savoy
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and
Piedmont
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, although several other small states could be found between them. In the 1050s, Otto allowed coins to be minted at Aiguebelle. The archbishop of
Vienne, Léger, who had sole right of minting in the region, complained to
Pope Leo IX
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, so Otto forbade further coining at Aiguebelle.
Notes
References
Sources
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External links
Oddo, Graf von Savoyen (1051–1059)(in German)
Othon de Savoie(in French)
*G. Sergi, 'Oddone di Moriana-Savoia,' in
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani – Volume 79 (2013)
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Nobility from Turin
11th-century counts of Savoy
1020s births
11th-century deaths
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Jure uxoris officeholders