Frederick II of Saluzzo

Frederick II (1332–1396) succeeded his father Thomas II as Marquess of Saluzzo in 1357, inheriting a marquisate weakened by civil war and on poor terms with Savoy. With enemies all around him in Piedmont, he looked to the French court for protection. In April 1375 he swore fealty to the Dauphin of France and placed the whole marquisate under him.

In 1376 he went to Paris and had the quarrel with Savoy heard before the Parlement. The fighting did not stop: in 1394 Savoyard troops captured his son Thomas and held him for almost two years.

It was the first step on a road that ended in the sixteenth century with Saluzzo absorbed into the French state. He married Beatrice of Geneva and was succeeded by his son Thomas III.