List of Famous people with last name Savoy
Honorat II of Savoy
Honorat de Savoie, marquis of Villars was a marshal of France and admiral of France.
Alice of Savoy
Princess Maria Anna Victoria of Savoy
Princess Maria Anna Victoria of Savoy was the daughter of Prince Louis Thomas of Savoy, Count of Soissons, and Uranie de La Cropte de Beauvais (1655-1717).
Humbert I of Savoy
Humbert I, better known as Humbert the White-Handed or Humbert Whitehand was the founder of the House of Savoy. Of obscure origins, his service to the German emperors Henry II and Conrad II was rewarded with the counties of Maurienne and Aosta and lands in Valais, all at the expense of local bishops and archbishops; the territory came to be known as the county of Savoy.
Umberto II, Count of Savoy
Umberto II, nicknamed the Fat, was Count of Savoy from 1080 until his death in 1103. He was the son of Amadeus II of Savoy.
Yolande Louise of Savoy
Yolande Louise of Savoy (1487–1499), was a Duchess Consort of Savoy; married to Philibert II, Duke of Savoy.
Charles II, Duke of Savoy
Charles II or Charles John Amadeus, was the Duke of Savoy from 1490 to 1496 but his mother Blanche of Montferrat (1472-1519) was the actual ruler as a regent. In 1485 his father Charles I had received the hereditary rights to the Kingdoms of Cyprus, Jerusalem, and Armenia which were inherited by young Charles.
Blessed Margaret of Savoy
The Blessed Margaret of Savoy was Marchioness of Montferrat, and a Dominican Sister.
N of Savoy
Amadeus I, Count of Savoy
Amadeus I, nicknamed of the Tail or la Coda, was an early count of the House of Savoy. He was probably the eldest son of Umberto I. 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".