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{{Short description|Count of Savoy (1060-1078)}}
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{{Infobox noble
| name = Peter I
| title = [[County of Savoy|Count of Savoy]] and [[Margrave of Turin]]
| image = Pietro I di Savoia Denaro Segusino.jpg
| caption = Coin bearing the stamped image of Peter I, Count of Savoy<!--Coin (''Denaro Segusino'') of Peter I-->
| CoA = 
| tenure = 
| predecessor = [[Otto of Savoy]]
| successor = [[Amadeus II of Savoy]]
| spouse = [[Agnes of Aquitaine, Countess of Savoy|Agnes of Aquitaine]]
| noble family = [[House of Savoy]]
| father = [[Otto I, Count of Savoy]]
| mother = [[Adelaide of Susa]]
| issue = Agnes<br>Alice
| birth_date = {{circa|1048}}
| birth_place = 
| death_date = 9 August 1078
| death_place = 
}}

'''Peter I''' (c. 1048 – 9 August 1078)<ref>Previté-Orton, ''Early History'', p. 205 (birthdate), p. 241 (death date)</ref> was [[count of Savoy]] and [[margrave of Turin]] jointly with his brother [[Amadeus II of Savoy]] from c. 1060 to 1078. He ruled only nominally, as true power was in the hands of his mother, [[Adelaide of Susa]].

Peter presided over court hearings alongside Adelaide and also issued several donation charters with her and his brothers Amadeus II of Savoy and Otto. Shortly before his death, Peter united with Bishop [[Cunibert of Turin]] in an attempt to drive Abbot Benedict II from his abbey of [[Sacra di San Michele|San Michele della Chiusa]].<ref>Previté-Orton, ''Early History'', pp. 240f.; Hellmann, ''Grafen'', pp. 19ff.</ref>

Peter married [[Agnes of Aquitaine, Countess of Savoy|Agnes of Aquitaine]], c.1065.<ref>Previté-Orton, ''Early History'', pp. 205, 231; Patrone, 'Agnese'; {{Cite journal|last=Creber|first=Alison|date=2019-04-22|title=Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Dissolving Royal and Noble Marriages in Eleventh-Century Germany|journal=German History|volume=37|issue=2|pages=149–171|doi=10.1093/gerhis/ghy108|issn=0266-3554}}.</ref> They had two daughters:
*Agnes (d.after 1110), who married [[Frederick of Montbéliard]] in 1080. After marrying Agnes, Frederick became Margrave of Turin (r.1080-1091).<ref>Previté-Orton, ''Early History'', p. 244; Hellmann, ''Grafen'', pp. 25f.</ref>
* Alice (d.ca 1111), who may have married Margrave [[Boniface del Vasto|Boniface of Vasto]] and Saluzzo in 1099

==References==
*[[Charles William Previté-Orton|C.W. Previté-Orton]], ''The Early History of the House of Savoy (1000–1233)'' (Cambridge, 1912), accessible online at:  [https://archive.org/stream/earlyhistoryofho00prevuoft#page/n5/mode/2up archive.org]
*S. Hellmann, ''Die Grafen von Savoyen und das Reich: bis zum Ende der staufischen Periode'' (Innsbruck, 1900), accessible online (but without page numbers) at: [http://www.manfred-hiebl.de/genealogie-mittelalter/savoyen_grafen_von/adelheid_von_turin_+_1091/hellmann.html Genealogie Mittelalter]
*A.M. Patrone, 'Agnes di Poitiers,' in "[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/agnese-di-poitiers_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani]" – Volume 1 (1960)

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==External links==
*[http://www.manfred-hiebl.de/genealogie-mittelalter/savoyen_grafen_von/peter_1_graf_von_savoyen_1078/peter_1_graf_von_savoyen_+_1078.html Peter I, Graf von Savoyen (1059–1078)]

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[[Category:1078 deaths]]
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