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Birth:          ABT 1000 
Death:          ABT 1052 
Burial:         Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoy

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_I,_Count_of_Savoy
Amadeus I (c. 975 – c. 1052), nicknamed of the Tail or la Coda (Latin caudatus, 
"tailed"), was an early count of the House of Savoy. He was probably the eldest son 
of Umberto I.[1] His nickname derives from an anecdote, preserved only in a 
thirteenth-century manuscript, that when he met the Emperor Henry III at Verona in 
1046, he refused to enter the emperor's chambers without his large train of knights, 
his "tail".[1]

Amadeus is first attested in a document of 8 April 1022, when, along with his younger 
brother Burchard, bishop of Belley, he witnessed a donation of Lambert, bishop of 
Langres, to his father.[1] Probably sometime after this and before 1030, Amadeus, 
Burchard, and a third brother, Otto, joined their father in witnessing a donation made 
by one Aymon de Pierrefort to the Abbey of Cluny. In a further two undated charters of 
probably about the same period, Amadeus together with his brothers Otto and Aymon 
and his father made donations to the Abbey of Cluny and the church of Saint-Maurice 
at Matassine.[1] Amadeus and his father also witnessed another donation, made by 
several nobleman, to the Abbey of Savigny.

The first record of Amadeus's marriage and use of the comital title ("count", Latin 
comes) comes from a single document dated 22 October 1030. On that date, at 
Grenoble, the count and his wife, Adelaide,[2] of unknown family, gave the church of 
Matassine to Cluny. The act was witnessed by one Humbert and his wife Ausilia—who 
were perhaps Amadeus's father and mother—and also by his brother Otto and by the 
King of Burgundy and his queen, Rudolf III and Ermengarda.[1] Although the 
document of 1030 does not demonstrate that Amadeus and his father both held the 
rank of count simultaneously, Humbert's diploma of 1040 for the Diocese of Aosta was 
confirmed by his eldest son bearing the title count.[1] On 21 January 1042 Amadeus, 
Otto and Aymon confirmed another diploma of their father favouring the church of 
Saint-Chaffre. On 10 June Count Amadeus, Count Humbert and Otto donated the 
church of Echelles to the church of Saint-Laurence in Grenoble. For the following 
decade there is no notice of Amadeus's activities, and his last action was record on 
10 December 1051. In this document he is called "Count of Belley" (comes 
Bellicensium), but it is almost certainly the same Count Amadeus as the son of 
Humbert I.[1]

Amadeus died shortly after 1051 and, according to fourteenth-century sources, was 
buried in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. His son Humbert had predeceased him, but he left 
behind a son, Aymon, who became Bishop of Belley. He may have had a daughter who 
married into the family of the Counts of Geneva. He was succeeded by his brother 
Otto in the countship.[1]
[birth cannot be 975; link to his father confirms his father born c. 980]

Parents
____ Humbert (Umberto) I "Bianca Mano" (ABT  970 - ABT 1045)
____ Auxilia (ABT  975 - )

Siblings
OF SAVOY Amadeo I (ABT 1000 - ABT 1052)
OF SAVOY Otto (Odo) (Eudes) I (ABT 1020 - 19 Jan 1058)

Marriage To OF ALBON Adelaide (ABT 1010 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by OF ALBON Adelaide ABT 1010 - 
____ Tietburge (Thietburga) (ABT 1030 - )

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