Umberto III "le Saint" Savoie comté de Maurienne et Savoie

   Another name for Umberto was Humbert III comté de Savoie.

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 133:26.
Quoting from Christopher Cope's, "The Lost Kingdom of Burgundy" : "Humbert III, who reigned from 1149 to 1189, . . . was a man of irresolute spirit who was disconsolate at being born a prince and preferred the seclusion of a monestery. He only renounced his chosen state of celibacy so as to give his land an heir . . . " Two wives only a daughter. "Humbert gave up and became a Carthusian monk . . . As the anciant chronicle narrates, the barons, knights, and people of Savoy went to the abbot to beg him to restore their count to them, but his marriage . . . again only produced a daughter; Humbert was about to withdraw to the abbey of Aulps when he was prevailed on to marry yet again, and his fourth wife gave him an heir who fortunately had the kingly qualities which Humbert lacked."

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 133:36, however, has the third wife, Beatrix de Macon as Tomas' mother. Europaische Stammtafeln ii, 190 confirms Beatrix.

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Midieval Lands, Humbert de Savoie.
Humberto de Savoie, son of Amedee III comté de Maurienne et de Savoie & his second wife Mathilde d'Albon [Viennois] (Avigliana 4 Aug 1136-Chambéry 4 Mar 1189, bur Abbaye de Hautecombe). Robert of Torigny names "Humbertus comes Moriennæ" as "filius Amati comitis"[Robert de Torigny, Vol. II, p. 27]. "A. comes et marchio cum uxore sua M." donated property to the monastery of Ripalta, with the support of "eorum filio Umberto", by charter dated 9 Jan 1137[Regesta comitum Sabaudiæ, CCLXXIII, p. 99. "Amedeus comes et marchio et Maies comitissa uxor eius et Umbertus eorum filius" donated property to the monastery of Saint-Maurice by charter dated 30 Mar 1143[Cibrario & Promis (1833), Documenti, p. 60.].

Humberto married Béatrice daughter of Gerard Comte de Mâcon et de Vienne [Bourgogne-Comté] & his wife Guyonne de Salins (-8 Apr 1230). The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines refers to one of the unnamed sisters of "comitem Guilelmum Matisconensem sive Viennensem et Galterum de Salins et quemdam Gerardum et Stephanum Bisuntinensem electum" as mother of "comes Thomas de Sabaudia"[Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 1190, MGH SS XXIII, p. 863]. "Thomas…Mauriannensis comes et marchio Italiæ" confirmed the donations made by "pater meus…[et] domini comitis Humberti…abavi mei" to the canons of Saint-Jean de Maurienne, with the advice of "B. matris mee et…tutore meo Bonifacio marchione Montisferrati", by charter dated 12 Jun 1189[Carutti (1888), Documenti del libro primi, XXXVI, p. 204.]. The necrology of Hautecombe records the death of "Beatrix comitissa" 8 Apr 1230[Wurstenberger (1858), Vol. IV, 74, p. 32].

Umberto married Béatrix de Vienne, daughter of Gerard Comte de Mâcon et Vienne and Maurette de Salins.¹⁰¹⁷ (Béatrix de Vienne was born about 1160 in Vienne, France and died before 8 Apr 1230.)