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Matilda of Savoy

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Matilda of Savoy
Matilda of Savoy
Electress Palatine
Tenure30 November 1417 – 30 December 1436
Born1390
Died1438 (aged 47–48)
SpouseLouis III, Elector Palatine
HouseSavoy
FatherAmadeo, Prince of Achaea
MotherCatherine of Geneva

Matilda (Mechtilde) of Savoy (1390–1438) was a daughter of Amadeo, Prince of Achaea (also known as Amadeus of Piedmont or Amadeus of Savoy) and Catherine of Geneva. She was the second wife of the Elector Palatine Louis III, whom she married on 30 November 1417.

Children

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Matilda had the following five children:

  1. Mathilde (7 March 1419 – 1 October 1482), married:
    1. in 1434 to Count Louis I of Württemberg
    2. in 1452 to Duke Albrecht VI of Austria
  2. Louis IV, Elector Palatine (1 January 1424 – 13 August 1449)
  3. Frederick I, Elector Palatine (1 August 1425 – 12 December 1476)
  4. Rupprecht (27 February 1427 – 26 July 1480), Prince-elector archbishop of Cologne
  5. Margarete (ca. 1428 – 23 November 1466), a nun at Liebenau monastery

References

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Matilda of Savoy
Born: 1390 Died: 1438
Royal titles
Vacant
Title last held by
Elisabeth of Nuremberg
Electress of the Palatinate
1417–1436
Vacant
Title next held by
Margaret of Savoy