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Yolande Palaeologina of Montferrat

Countess of Savoy (1318–1342)

Summary

Countess of Savoy (1318–1342)

Field	Value
consort	yes
name	Yolande
succession	Countess of Savoy
image	Aimon Yolanda.jpg
caption	Tomb of Aimone and Yolande
reign	1 May 1330 – 24 December 1342
spouse	Aimone, Count of Savoy
issue	Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy
Bianca, Lady of Milan
house	Palaeologus-Montferrat
father	Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat
mother	Argentina Spinola
birth_date	June 1318
birth_place	Moncalvo
death_date	24 December
death_place	Chambery
place of burial	Hautecombe Abbey

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Yolande Palaiologina or Violant (Moncalvo, June 1318 – Chambery, 24 December 1342) was the Countess consort of Savoy by marriage to Aimone, Count of Savoy. She was the daughter of Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat, and Argentina Spinola (1303-1356), a Genoese lady, daughter of Opicino Spinola. She received the name Yolande from her paternal grandmother Irene of Montferrat.

Life

On 1 May 1330 Yolande married Aimone, Count of Savoy; from her marriage she became countess of Savoy, Aosta and Moriana. Her marriage was arranged to seal the newly found peace between her family and the counts of Savoy, and on the basis that the latter would succeed to Montferrato in case of extinction in the male line of the Palaeologus-Montferrat family. According also to this act of inheritance in Montferatto, when the male line died out of the House of Palaeologus-Montferrat with the death of Boniface IV of Montferrat two centuries later, Charles III, Duke of Savoy, laid claim to Montferrato through Yolande his great-great-great-great grandmother. However it was claimed by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

After failing to produce a child for the count in the first few years of marriage, she went to the shrine of the Virgin Mary at Bourg-en-Bresse, which was considered at the time to help marriages become fruitful. Not long after, she conceived a son, Amadeus. She returned to the shrine after his birth, and was pleased to then conceive a daughter.

Yolande died whilst giving birth to her son Louis on 24 December 1342, and she was buried in a chapel at Hautecombe Abbey.

Issue

They had:

Amadeus VI (Amadeo VI) (1334–1383)
Bianca (1336–1388), married in 1350 to Galeazzo II Visconti, Lord of Milan
John (1338–1345), died young
Catherine (1341), died young
Louis (b. 24 December 1342), died young

References

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