Editing Savoy (section)

===Early and High Middle Ages===
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[[File:Italy 1494.svg|thumbnail|Duchy of Savoy (red) and other Italian states in 1494.]]
By the 8th century, the territory that would later become known as Savoy was part of [[Francia]], and at the division of Francia at the [[Treaty of Verdun]] in 843, it became part of the short-lived kingdom of [[Middle Francia]]. After only 12 years, at the death of [[Lothair I]] in 855, Middle Francia was divided into [[Lotharingia]] north of the Alps, [[Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)|Italy south of the Alps]], and the parts of Burgundy in the Western Alps, inherited by [[Charles of Provence]]. This latter territory comprised what would become known as Savoy and [[Provence]]. For a short time, this province fell to the Arabs.

From the 10th to 14th century, parts of what would ultimately become Savoy remained within the [[Kingdom of Burgundy-Arles]]. Beginning in the 11th century, the gradual rise to power of the [[House of Savoy]] is reflected in the increasing territory of their [[County of Savoy]] between 1003 and 1416.

The County of Savoy was detached ''de jure'' from the Kingdom of Arles by [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor]] in 1361. It acquired the [[County of Nice]] in 1388, and in 1401 added the [[County of Geneva]], the area of [[Geneva]] except for the city proper, which was ruled by its [[prince-bishop]], nominally under the duke's rule: the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg|bishops of Geneva]], by unspoken agreement, came from the [[House of Savoy]] until 1533.<ref group=n>See the career of the last prince-bishop [[Pierre de La Baume]].</ref>