Amadeus III of Savoy

Amadeus III (1095–1148) became Count of Savoy and Maurienne in 1103, ruling at first through a regent. In 1128 he enlarged his lands with the New Chablais, and he restored Saint-Maurice d'Agaune and founded Hautecombe Abbey.

After his men killed his wife's brother Guigues IV of Albon at Montmélian, he escaped French retaliation by promising to take the cross. He joined the Second Crusade in 1147 with Louis VII, led the vanguard in Anatolia, and died of exhaustion at Nicosia in Cyprus in April 1148. His son Humbert III succeeded him.