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Birth:          ABT 1160 Montferrat, Italy
Death:          AFT 22 Jul 1202 Montferrat, Italy

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azala%C3%AFs_of_Montferrat
Azalaïs of Montferrat (also Adelasia or Alasia) (1150–1232) was marchioness and 
regent of Saluzzo.
Biography[edit]

Azalaïs was one of at least three daughters of William V of Montferrat and his wife 
Judith of Babenberg. Her brothers included William of Montferrat, Count of Jaffa and 
Ascalon, Conrad I of Jerusalem, and Boniface of Montferrat.

She married Marquis Manfred II of Saluzzo before 1182, in which year she received 
lands in Saluzzo, Racconigi, Villa, Centallo and Quaranta, in case her marriage (like 
that of her sister Agnes) should need to be annulled for reasons of sterility.

Like her brother Boniface, Azalaïs was a patron of troubadours. She is mentioned in 
Peire Vidal's song, Estat ai gran sazo:
Dieus sal l'onrat marquesE sa bella seror...(God save the honoured marquisAnd his 
beautiful sister)[1]
and is the dedicatee of his Bon' aventura don Dieus als Pizas.[2]

Around 1192, she had built the church of San Lorenzo, which she granted to the 
canons of San Lorenzo in Oulx; her eldest son, Boniface, named after her brother, is 
mentioned for the first time in the donation. However, Boniface died in 1212, and with 
the death of her husband in February 1215, Azalaïs became regent of Saluzzo for her 
grandson, Manfred III.

In 1216, she made a treaty with Thomas I of Savoy for a marriage between his son 
Amadeus and her granddaughter Agnes. However, the marriage never took place, 
possibly on grounds of consanguinity, since Azalaïs was a first cousin of Thomas's 
father. Amadeus married Anne of Burgundy, and Agnes became Abbess of the 
Cistercian convent of Santa Maria della Stella in Rifreddo.[3] Azalaïs also made 
political and ecclesiastical agreements with Alba and with the Bishop of Asti.

When young Manfred reached his majority in 1218, Azalaïs returned to church 
patronage. In 1224, she endowed the convent of Rifreddo with the income of the 
church of San Ilario. In 1227, she made further grants to the canons of Oulx. She died 
in 1232, and was buried in the Cistercian abbey of Santa Maria di Staffarda.

Issue[edit]

Manfred and Azalaïs had at least five children:
Agnes m. Comita III, giudice of Logudoro, in Sardinia.
Boniface (the heir, who predeceased his father) m. Maria of Torres (daughter of 
Agnes's husband). They were the parents of Manfred II's successor Manfred III of 
Saluzzo
Margaret m. Geoffrey de Salvaing.
(daughter, given name unknown) m. Marquis William II of Ceva.
Thomas.

Parents
____ Guillaume VI (IV) (ABT 1110 - 1191)
OF BABENBERG Judith (Jutta) (ABT 1117 - AFT 18 Oct 1168)

Siblings
DE MONTFERRAT Adelasia (Azalais) (Alice) (Adelheid) (ABT 1160 - AFT 22 Jul 1202)

Marriage To DE SALUZZA Manfred II (ABT 1140 - AFT 22 Apr 1215)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE SALUZZA Manfred I (ABT 1124 - 1175)
DE ARBOREA Eleanor (ABT 1114 - )

Children by DE SALUZZA Manfred II ABT 1140 - AFT 22 Apr 1215
DE SALUZZO ----- (ABT 1180 - )
DE SALUZZA Bonifacio (ABT 1180 - 1212)

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