Humbert II (
Italian
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: ''Umberto II''), nicknamed the Fat (c. 1065 – 19 October 1103
[C.W. Previte-Orton, ''The Early History of the House of Savoy'', (Cambridge University Press, 1912), 276–277.]), was Count of
Savoy
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from 1080 until his death in 1103. He was the son of
Amadeus II of Savoy.
He was married to
Gisela of Burgundy
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,
daughter of
William I, Count of Burgundy
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, and had seven children:
*
Amadeus III of Savoy (1095–1148)
* William,
Bishop of Liège
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*
Adelaide
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, (d. 1154), married to
Louis VI of France
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* Agnes, (d. 1127), married to Archimbald VI, lord of
Bourbon
* Umberto
* Reginald
* Guy, abbey of
Namur
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References
1060s births
1103 deaths
11th-century counts of Savoy
12th-century counts of Savoy
People from Carignano
11th-century French nobility
12th-century French nobility
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