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	=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. ===		=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. ===
	<blockquote>Savoy, Allobroges, Sapandia, Sabaudia, a celebrated Sovereign Dukedom in Europe; called by the Natives Savoy, by the Germans Saffoy, by the Spaniards Saboya. It was of old a part of Gallia Narbonensis; and the North part of the Country possessed by the Allobroges: on the North bounded by Vallais, (or Wallisserlandt), Switzerland, and Gex; on the West by Beugey, separated from it by the Rhosne; on the South by Dauphine; on the East by Piedmont and the Dukedom of Milan; a part of it reaching beyond the Alpes. The whole is covered by vast high Hills and Mountains: and as it is thereby made healthful, so it is generally barren; the Valleys excepted. There are some Mines in it, and a great deal of game. Divided ordinarily into six parts; viz. Savoy properly so called, Genevois, Maurienne, Tarantaise, Fossigm; and Chablais. The Inhabitants are dull of apprehension, and no great Soldiers: the chief City, Geneva, is a Free State: the best under the Duke of Savoy is Chambery or Cameraci. The Conquest of this Country for the Romans was begun by Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, in the Year of Rome 631: one hundred and nineteen Years before the Birth of our Saviour. Nero first made it a Roman Province. At the fall of the Roman Empire, it became a part of the Kingdom of Burgundy; and under Rodolph the last King was united to Germany. In the year 999, Berald of Saxony fled hither and settled; whose Son (Humbert) was by Conradus Salicus made Earl of Maurence, a Town in this Country, in the year 1027. From this beginning by Conquests and Marriages, this Family became so considerable, that Sigismond the Emperour Created Amadee (the eighth in the Line,) Duke of Savoy, in the year 1397. (or as others, in the year 1416.) Victor Amadee II. (the present Duke of Savoy) succeeded Charles Emanuel his Father, in the year 1675: being then a Child of nine years of Age; the thirtieth in this Line, and of the Roman Catholick Religion; his usual Residence is at Turin in Piedmont: where he declared War against France Jun. 4. 1690; in Conjunction with the Confederate Princes. But has since lost a considerable part of his Dominions</blockquote>		<blockquote>Savoy, Allobroges, Sapandia, Sabaudia, a celebrated Sovereign Dukedom in Europe; called by the Natives Savoy, by the Germans Saffoy, by the Spaniards Saboya. It was of old a part of Gallia Narbonensis; and the North part of the Country possessed by the Allobroges: on the North bounded by Vallais, (or Wallisserlandt), Switzerland, and Gex; on the West by Beugey, separated from it by the Rhosne; on the South by Dauphine; on the East by Piedmont and the Dukedom of Milan; a part of it reaching beyond the Alpes. The whole is covered by vast high Hills and Mountains: and as it is thereby made healthful, so it is generally barren; the Valleys excepted. There are some Mines in it, and a great deal of game. Divided ordinarily into six parts; viz. Savoy properly so called, Genevois, Maurienne, Tarantaise, Fossigm; and Chablais. The Inhabitants are dull of apprehension, and no great Soldiers: the chief City, Geneva, is a Free State: the best under the Duke of Savoy is Chambery or Cameraci. The Conquest of this Country for the Romans was begun by Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, in the Year of Rome 631: one hundred and nineteen Years before the Birth of our Saviour. Nero first made it a Roman Province. At the fall of the Roman Empire, it became a part of the Kingdom of Burgundy; and under Rodolph the last King was united to Germany. In the year 999, Berald of Saxony fled hither and settled; whose Son (Humbert) was by Conradus Salicus made Earl of Maurence, a Town in this Country, in the year 1027. From this beginning by Conquests and Marriages, this Family became so considerable, that Sigismond the Emperour Created Amadee (the eighth in the Line,) Duke of Savoy, in the year 1397. (or as others, in the year 1416.) Victor Amadee II. (the present Duke of Savoy) succeeded Charles Emanuel his Father, in the year 1675: being then a Child of nine years of Age; the thirtieth in this Line, and of the Roman Catholick Religion; his usual Residence is at Turin in Piedmont: where he declared War against France Jun. 4. 1690; in Conjunction with the Confederate Princes. But has since lost a considerable part of his Dominions</blockquote>

			=== 1694. The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary by Louis Moreri. ===
			<blockquote>Savoy, Sabaudia, Sapaudia, a Sovereign Dukedom in Europe. It was of old a part of Gallia Narbonensis, and the Nor•h part of the Country possessed by the Allobroges; and besides them, was inhabited of old by the Centrones, Brannovices, Nantuates, Latobrigi, and Sabaudi; for the Latin Name Sabaudia is no new Name, Prosper Aquitanus having used it above a thousand Years ago. This Dukedom is bounded on the North by the Lake of Geneva and the River Rh•sne, on the West by the River Rhosne, on the South by Dauphine, and on the East by Piedmont and Vallais or Wallisserlandt. The whole Country is very mountainous, and generally barren, the Valleys excepted. It is divided into six Parts, viz. Savoy, properly so called, the Territory of Geneva, La Maurienne, La Tarantaise, Le Fossigni, and Le Chablais. The chief City formerly was Geneva, but that being now a Free-State, the chiefest under the Duke of Savoy is Chamberri, the rest are Jean de Maurienne, Annecy, Cluse, Moustiere, Montmeillan, and Thonon. Savoy, upon the declining of the Roman Empire under Honorius, was left as a Prey to several barbarous Nations, but at last it came under the Dominion of the Princes that at present are possest of it, who derive their Pedigree from one Bertoldus or Beroldus, who in the XI. Century was the Rise of this Family. The Learned are very much at difference about the Birth of this Prince and his Extraction: Some derive it from Ancharius Marquess of Yoree, others from Hugo King of Italy and Duke of Provence; others say he was the Nephew of Hugo Capet, and others make him a Descendant of the Counts of Macon. Above fourscore Historians of several Nations follow Guichenon, who derives his Genealogy from Wittekindus the Great Duke of Saxony and Angria, Grandfather of Hugo Marquess of Italy, who was Father of this Beroldus Earl of Savoy and Maurienne, and had for his Successor Humbert sirnamed White Hands But some French Authors of late have endeavoured to make out, That there was never any such Man as Beroldus of Saxony, and have found that this Humbert was Grandchild of the Emperor Lewis the Son of Boson, the Son of Beuvil Count of Ardenna, and descended from Pharamond, or as others from Charlemagne.

			<nowiki>*</nowiki> Others derive the Name from one Sapaudus, quasi Sapaudia, and say the Country was given by Charlemagne to one of his Sons, adding, its Dominions were larger in 1322 than now. Monetus says, the Length from Lake Lemman to Mount Cenisso is 40 Savoyard or 60 French Leagues, and from one of the Heads of Lake Lemman to the other 20 French Leagues broad, but from the Eastern Bank of the Rhone to the Maritime Alp•s it is half as broad again. The Princes of this Country were formerly called Counts of Maurienne, and Savoy, but were dignified with the Title of Duke by the Emperor Sigismund An. 1417. They now call themselves Dukes of Savoy, Chablais, Aost, and the Canton of Geneva; Princes of Piedmont, Marquises of Saluce, Counts of Geneve, Romont, Nice, Aste and Tende, Barons of Fausigny, Lords of Verceilles, and Marquess of Italy. Hoffm.

			<nowiki>*</nowiki> Schowart treats of their Genealogy thus, That it is certainly one of the ancientest Families in Europe: so that there is no certainty to be had concerning their Original; but this is out of all doubt, says he, That in the beginning of the Eleventh Age Beraldus was Marquess of Italy, Count of Savoy and Maurienne, and died An. 1023. His Son was Humbert I. called White Hands, died in 1048, succeeded by his Son Odo, who to the former Titles had the Addition of Lord of Chablais, Valois, Aost, Marquess of Susa, and Duke of Turin: He died in 1091, succeeded by Amadaeus II. and he by Humbert II. who had the Addition of Lord of Piedmont, &c. and died Nov. 18. 1103, leaving his Provinces to his eldest Son Amadaeus III. who died in an Expedition into the Holy Land at Nicosia in 1149, succeeded by his Son Humbert III, called the Saint, who died March 4. 1186, succeeded by his Son Thomas I. who was made Vicar General of the Empire in Lombardy and Piedmont; he died May 20 1233, leaving a numerous Issue. Amadaeus IV. his Son, had Boniface sirnamed Roland, who died Childless in 1263, succeeded by his Uncle Philip, who died also without Issue Nov. 17. 1285. succeeded by his Brother Thomas II. who died in 1259, leaving 3 Sons, viz. Thomas III. of Savoy, whose Son Philip succeeded his Grand-Uncle Philip in Piedmont, the Marquisate of Susa being excepted: but that Branch failed An. 1418, in Lewis of Savoy. Amadaeus V. second Son to Thomas II. for his gallant Atchievments was called Great, and in 1310 created a Prince of the Empire by the Emperor Hen. VI. and died Oct. 16. An. 1323, succeeded by Edward who died in 1329 without Issue Male. His Brother Aimon the Pacifick succeeded, and died Jun. 24. 1343, leaving a Son called Amadaeus VI. and his Son Amadaeus VII. sirnamed the Red was Father to Amadaeus VIII. who Febr. 19. 1416. was created Duke of Savoy by the Emperor Sigismund. In 1418 he inherited the Land of his Kinsman Lewis in Italy. In 1434 he devolved the Government upon his Son Lewis, and betaking himself to a religious Life, died An. 1451. His Son Lewis marrying Anna Daughter to the King of Cyprus, died in 1465, succeeded by his Son Amadaeus IX. who died in 1472, succeeded by his Son Car. II. who died in 1490, succeeded by Charles John Amadaeus Duke of Savoy and King of Cyprus, who died Childless An. 1496. Philip without Land, second Son to Amadaeus VIII, succeeded in his old Age, and died Nov. 7. 1479, leaving for Heir his Son Philibert II. who died without Children, Sept. 10. 1504, and was succeeded by his Brother Car. III. and he dying in 1553, was succeeded by his Son Emanuel Philibert, who in his Youth applied himself to Military Affairs in the Camp of the Emperour Charles V. He married Margaret Daughter to Francis I. King of France, died Aug. 30. 1580, leaving only one Son, Charles Emanuel, Duke of Savoy and King of Cyprus, of a sublime Wit, happy Memory, and very learned, especially in the Mathematicks: He waged War with France, but unsuccessfully: He married Katharine Daughter to Philip II. of Spain, and died July 26. 1630: His Children were Philip Emanuel Prince of Piedmont, who died in 1605, Victor Amadaeus who succeeded, Emanuel Philibert, who was one of the Knights of Jerusalem, Prince of Oneglia, Viceroy of Sicily, and died at Pannoni in 1624. Margaret married to Francis Gonzaga Duke of Mantua. Isabella married to the Duke of Mutina. Maurice, first Cardinal, then Prince of Oneglia, who died Childless; Mary and Frances both Nuns; Thomas Franciscus Prince of Carignan, and Joanna who died An. 1597. Victor Amadaeus succeeded his Father, and was a great Lover of Peace; but a War breaking out betwixt the French and Spaniard, he sided with the former, and died of a Fever Oct. 7. 1637: He married a Daughter of Henry IV. of France, by whom he had Aloisia Maria Christina married to her Uncle Maurice Prince of Oneglia. Francis who died in 1632. and Charles Emanuel. Margaret married to Rainutius Duke of Parma in 1660. Adelais married to Ferdinand Elector of Bavaria in 1652, and Katharine who died in 1637. Charles Emanuel succeeded his Father, being a Prince of great Endowments both in Body and Mind, and extremely skilful in managing the Great Horse, and all Warlike Exercises, for which he erected an Academy at Turin, and died much lamented June 12. 1675. In 16•3 he married Magdalen Daughter to the Duke of Orleans, and after her death his Kinswoman Mary, Daughter to the D. of Nemours, by whom he had Victor Amadaeus Franciscus II. the present Duke of Savoy, born May 17. 1666, and on April 9. 1684 he married Anna Maria Daugh. to the Duke of Orleans, by whom he has two Daughters, Mary born Decemb. 6. 1685, and another, whose Name we know not, born Aug. 30. 1688. From Thomas Son to Charles Emanuel I. are descended by Mary of Bourbon Daughter to the Count of Soisson, Aloise married to the Marq. of Baden, Emanuel Philibert who married Mary Katharine of Est, Eugenius Mauritius who married Olympia Niece to Cardinal Mazarin, by whom he had Lewis Thomas Count of Soissons, who married Ʋrania Daughter to the Lord of Beauvois, Decemb. 17. 1682. Philip born 1659, and Franciscus Eugenius so much talked of in the present Wars, born in 1665. Schowart Observ. Hist. Geneal. The present Duke of Savoy declared against France, and fell in with the Confederates, Jan. 4. 1690, because of the Unreasonableness of the French King's Demands, who sought no less than to Garrison his Capital City, and had prevail'd with him to persecute his innocent Subjects the Waldenses. The French King being before that time possessed of great part of Savoy, hath seised the whole since, so that the Duke is now confin'd to Piedmont; but in Summer 1692 he marched with 30000 Men into Dauphine, took Ambrun, Gap, &c. spoil'd the Country at pleasure, and would have made further Progress, had he not been taken with the Small Pox, which obliged him to return to Turin.</blockquote>

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	Under Savoy is comprehended Genevois, Choblais, Faussigni, Tarentaise, Maurienne, part of Bugey. Chambri is the Capital of the Dutchy and the Seat of a Parliament. Montmelion is the strongest in it, with a Cittadel, which covers the head of almost an inaccessible Mountain, where the Keys of Savoy are said to be kept. Anneci is the Residence of the Bishop of Geneva. Ripaille was the retreat of Felix the Fourth, before and after his Pontificate. This Prince liv'd there with his Friends in such a disapplication from Affairs, that since People say Faire Ripaille, when they are merry, and without disquiet.</blockquote>		Under Savoy is comprehended Genevois, Choblais, Faussigni, Tarentaise, Maurienne, part of Bugey. Chambri is the Capital of the Dutchy and the Seat of a Parliament. Montmelion is the strongest in it, with a Cittadel, which covers the head of almost an inaccessible Mountain, where the Keys of Savoy are said to be kept. Anneci is the Residence of the Bishop of Geneva. Ripaille was the retreat of Felix the Fourth, before and after his Pontificate. This Prince liv'd there with his Friends in such a disapplication from Affairs, that since People say Faire Ripaille, when they are merry, and without disquiet.</blockquote>

			=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. ===
			<blockquote>Savoy, Allobroges, Sapandia, Sabaudia, a celebrated Sovereign Dukedom in Europe; called by the Natives Savoy, by the Germans Saffoy, by the Spaniards Saboya. It was of old a part of Gallia Narbonensis; and the North part of the Country possessed by the Allobroges: on the North bounded by Vallais, (or Wallisserlandt), Switzerland, and Gex; on the West by Beugey, separated from it by the Rhosne; on the South by Dauphine; on the East by Piedmont and the Dukedom of Milan; a part of it reaching beyond the Alpes. The whole is covered by vast high Hills and Mountains: and as it is thereby made healthful, so it is generally barren; the Valleys excepted. There are some Mines in it, and a great deal of game. Divided ordinarily into six parts; viz. Savoy properly so called, Genevois, Maurienne, Tarantaise, Fossigm; and Chablais. The Inhabitants are dull of apprehension, and no great Soldiers: the chief City, Geneva, is a Free State: the best under the Duke of Savoy is Chambery or Cameraci. The Conquest of this Country for the Romans was begun by Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, in the Year of Rome 631: one hundred and nineteen Years before the Birth of our Saviour. Nero first made it a Roman Province. At the fall of the Roman Empire, it became a part of the Kingdom of Burgundy; and under Rodolph the last King was united to Germany. In the year 999, Berald of Saxony fled hither and settled; whose Son (Humbert) was by Conradus Salicus made Earl of Maurence, a Town in this Country, in the year 1027. From this beginning by Conquests and Marriages, this Family became so considerable, that Sigismond the Emperour Created Amadee (the eighth in the Line,) Duke of Savoy, in the year 1397. (or as others, in the year 1416.) Victor Amadee II. (the present Duke of Savoy) succeeded Charles Emanuel his Father, in the year 1675: being then a Child of nine years of Age; the thirtieth in this Line, and of the Roman Catholick Religion; his usual Residence is at Turin in Piedmont: where he declared War against France Jun. 4. 1690; in Conjunction with the Confederate Princes. But has since lost a considerable part of his Dominions</blockquote>

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	<blockquote>SAVOY, Sabaudia.		<blockquote>SAVOY, Sabaudia.

	THE Province of Savoy is one of the most Illustrious Sovereign Dutchies of Europe, being bounded on the North by the Lake of Geneva, Switzerland and the County of Burgundy, on the West by the Province of Dauphine, on the South by part of Dauphine and of Piedmont, and on the East by the same Principality of Piedmont. It is extended from South-east to North-west, for the space of about 34 Leagues, and 24 from West to East.		THE Province of Savoy is one of the most Illustrious Sovereign Dutchies of Europe, being bounded on the North by the Lake of Geneva, Switzerland and the County of Burgundy, on the West by the Province of Dauphine, on the South by part of Dauphine and of [[Piedmont]], and on the East by the same Principality of Piedmont. It is extended from South-east to North-west, for the space of about 34 Leagues, and 24 from West to East.

	This Province was heretofore inhabited by divers People, viz. The Centrones, Brannovicii, Antuates, or Nantuales, Latobriges, Alobroges & Savoyards, constituting part of Gallia Narbonnensis, and of Gallia Celtica, or Lugdunensis. Afterward it was subject to the Romans, until the declining of that Empire, under the Reign of Honorius, it became a Prey to many Barbarous Nations. Some time after it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Burgundy, and from thence pass'd under the Dominion of those Princes, that are the present Possessors thereof. Berold, or Bertold, who lived in the beginning of the XIth Century, is the Stock from whence sprang this most Noble Family. Howsoever different the Opinions of Historians may seem to be with respect to these Circumstances, we ought to adhere to that of Guichenon, confirm'd and authoriz'd by above 80 other Authors of the German, Italian, French and Savoisian Nations. They unanimously agree, that this Berold was descended from Wittikind, the great Duke of Saxony and Angria, the Father of Wittibert Duke of Angria, who begat Bruno and Valpert. This last in like manner Duke of Angria and Count of Ringolbert, left Immed Duke of Eugern, to whom Hinna Countess of Chiren, brought forth Hugh Marquess of Italy, the Father of the said Berald, Count or Earl of Savoy and Maurienne, after whom succeeded Humbert, sir-nam'd White-hands. Their Successors added divers Demeans to their former Possessions, and the Emperor Sigismund erected them into a Dutchy, A. D. 1416, in favour of Amedeo VIII. The Dukes of Savoy, who derive the original of their Extraction from the House of Saxony, are at present stiled Kings of Cyprus, ever since Lewis of Savoy married the only Daughter of John King of that Island. They also bear the Title of Vicars of the Empire since the time of Amedeo the Great. Some Writers, particularly Mr. Chorier and Du Bouchet affirm, that there never was any such Person as the above-mention'd Berold of Saxony; and that Humbert was the Grand-son of the Emperor Lewes the Son of Boson.		This Province was heretofore inhabited by divers People, viz. The Centrones, Brannovicii, Antuates, or Nantuales, Latobriges, Alobroges & Savoyards, constituting part of Gallia Narbonnensis, and of Gallia Celtica, or Lugdunensis. Afterward it was subject to the Romans, until the declining of that Empire, under the Reign of Honorius, it became a Prey to many Barbarous Nations. Some time after it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Burgundy, and from thence pass'd under the Dominion of those Princes, that are the present Possessors thereof. Berold, or Bertold, who lived in the beginning of the XIth Century, is the Stock from whence sprang this most Noble Family. Howsoever different the Opinions of Historians may seem to be with respect to these Circumstances, we ought to adhere to that of Guichenon, confirm'd and authoriz'd by above 80 other Authors of the German, Italian, French and Savoisian Nations. They unanimously agree, that this Berold was descended from Wittikind, the great Duke of Saxony and Angria, the Father of Wittibert Duke of Angria, who begat Bruno and Valpert. This last in like manner Duke of Angria and Count of Ringolbert, left Immed Duke of Eugern, to whom Hinna Countess of Chiren, brought forth Hugh Marquess of Italy, the Father of the said Berald, Count or Earl of Savoy and Maurienne, after whom succeeded Humbert, sir-nam'd White-hands. Their Successors added divers Demeans to their former Possessions, and the Emperor Sigismund erected them into a Dutchy, A. D. 1416, in favour of Amedeo VIII. The Dukes of Savoy, who derive the original of their Extraction from the House of Saxony, are at present stiled Kings of Cyprus, ever since Lewis of Savoy married the only Daughter of John King of that Island. They also bear the Title of Vicars of the Empire since the time of Amedeo the Great. Some Writers, particularly Mr. Chorier and Du Bouchet affirm, that there never was any such Person as the above-mention'd Berold of Saxony; and that Humbert was the Grand-son of the Emperor Lewes the Son of Boson.

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<blockquote>Savoy.

THis Country, formerly the abode of the Allobroges, is said to have been called Savoy, after one of its Princes had drove away the Robbers. It is full of Mountains, which we generally call the Alpes, tho' several Branches there have their peculiar Names. Mount Cenis, and the lesser St. Bernard, make the two principal Passages for Italy. 'Tis very cold in these parts; the Inhabitants, by reason of their drinking the Snow-water, are subject to the Goitre, which is a swelling of the Throat, proceeding from the crudity of that Water. Nevertheless there are several Places in this Country both very pleasant and very fertile. The Mountains have Marmotes, which are seldom seen elsewhere: they are great Rats, who have short Legs, rugged Hair, the Mouth and Ears of a Squirrel, four Teeth long and cutting; they sleep full six Months of the Year, without taking in any Food or Nourishment.

Savoy is reckon'd for the Principal and most Noble Dutchy of Christendom; It's certain, that its Dukes have had Alliances with all that's Royal in Europe. After the Houses of England and France, that of Savoy is one of the most ancient: Ame the eighth had reason to say, that he had Princes to his Vassals: Most of the Gentlemen of his Dominions come from the Emperours of the East and West, from the Kings of Italy, from the Princes of Morea, from the Counts of Geneva. The Power of the Dukes of Savoy is so much the more considerable, in that they are Masters of several Passages from France into Italy, by the possession of Piedmont, of the County of Niece, and other Seigneuries.

Under Savoy is comprehended Genevois, Choblais, Faussigni, Tarentaise, Maurienne, part of Bugey. Chambri is the Capital of the Dutchy and the Seat of a Parliament. Montmelion is the strongest in it, with a Cittadel, which covers the head of almost an inaccessible Mountain, where the Keys of Savoy are said to be kept. Anneci is the Residence of the Bishop of Geneva. Ripaille was the retreat of Felix the Fourth, before and after his Pontificate. This Prince liv'd there with his Friends in such a disapplication from Affairs, that since People say Faire Ripaille, when they are merry, and without disquiet.</blockquote>