Amadeus VI of Savoy

Amadeus VI (1334–1383), the Green Count, inherited Savoy in 1343 at the age of nine. His father's will named two cousins as co-regents, neither able to decide anything major alone. In 1350 he married his sister Bianca to Galeazzo II Visconti of Milan and founded the Order of the Black Swan to honour the match.

His greatest undertaking was the Savoyard Crusade of 1366–1367, which he personally financed: he seized Gallipoli from the Ottomans and campaigned in Bulgaria to help the Byzantine emperor John V, though the Turks won back these gains within five years.

At Turin in 1381 he mediated peace between Genoa and Venice. He died in 1383 on campaign in the kingdom of Naples, leaving Savoy to his son Amadeus VII.