Humbert III of Savoy

Humbert III (1136–1189), called the Blessed, inherited the County of Savoy in 1148 at the age of twelve. Pious, he endowed Hautecombe Abbey and was later the first prince buried there. After his third wife died in 1173, he retired to Hautecombe, but the nobility persuaded him to marry again.

He backed the Guelph cause against Emperor Frederick Barbarossa; imperial troops burned Susa, and Henry VI later seized most of his lands, leaving him only the Susa and Aosta valleys. His fourth wife bore him his heir Thomas. Humbert died at Chambéry on 4 March 1189.