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Boniface, Count of Savoy

Field	Value
name	Boniface
image	Bonifác Savojský.jpg
succession	Count of Savoy
reign	1253–1263
predecessor	Amadeus IV
successor	Peter II
house	Savoy
father	Amadeus IV of Savoy
mother	Cecile of Baux
birth_date	1 December 1244
birth_place	Chambéry, France
death_date	7 June 1263 (aged 18)
death_place	Turin, Italy

Boniface (1 December 1244–7 June 1263) was Count of Savoy from 1253 to 1263, succeeding his father Amadeus IV. He never married and thus left no heir.

Career

Boniface was born in Chambéry on 1 December 1244.

Since he became Count of Savoy at the age of nine, he required a regency. Throughout the decade before his death, Savoy was governed through a joint regency resembling that devised for his grandfather Thomas in 1189, in which authority was shared between his mother, Cecile of Baux, and one of his uncles, Thomas II of Piedmont. Boniface's other uncles, Peter and Philip, disputed this, seeking to divide the county's many properties, but Thomas took it to arbitration per the family treaty of 1234 which had been negotiated by his brother William and won out. Peter and Philip were, however, granted compensation in return, receiving more properties within the county. When Thomas died in 1259, Cecile continued as regent in Savoy. Under her regency, Philip and Peter continued their previous work of expanding the control and influence over the County of Savoy.

Boniface's campaigns in Flanders and Piedmont were not successful. In September 1262, Rudolf of Geneva offered homage to cousin Boniface after yet another round of the war between Peter and their kin in Geneva. On 7 July 1263 in Turin, Boniface was mortally wounded in battle and died aged 18, to be succeeded by his uncle Peter.

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