biography
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Amadeus VI
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known as the Green Count
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pronunciation:
[amaydayoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1334–83)
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| biography:
| Count of Savoia, born in Chambéry, Savoy, SE France. He succeeded his father, Aimone, in 1343 and pursued a policy of balance between France, Visconti, and empire. He gained vassalage of Piedmont and Saluzzo (1365), fought the Turks at Constantinople (1366–7), and conquered Gallipoli freeing Emperor John V Palaeologus. In Italy he fought against the Visconti, conquering territories in the Biella (1378) and Vercelli (1379) regions. He mediated between Venice and Genoa (Peace of Turin, 1381) and died while taking part in an expedition with Louis of Anjou against Charles III of Durazzo. |
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