Peter II of Savoy
Peter II (b.
1203-d.
1268) was Count of Savoy from
1263 to
1268. Surnamed
the Little, he was elected(?) to succeded
Boniface who was killed in battlefield.
married to Agnes of Faucigny and had a daughter:
- Beatrice d. 1310, married
- 1. in 1241 to Guigues VII, Dauphin of Viennois (1237-1270)
- 2. in 1273 to Gaston, Viscount of Bearn
- and had 2 children whose father was either Guigues or Gaston:
- John I d. 1282, (Dauphin of Viennois 1270-1282 ?)
- Anne, married in 1273 to
- Humbert I, Sire of La Tour-du-Pia, Dauphin of Viennois {1282-1307)
He was the uncle of
Eleanor of Provence, queen-consort of
Henry III of England, and came with her to London. King Henry made Peter Earl of Richmond and gave him (in
1246) the land between the
Strand and the
Thames where Peter built the
Savoy Palace in
1263.