Editing Peter II, Count of Savoy (section)

===Count of Savoy===
[[File:The nineteenth century cenotaph to Peter of Savoy at Hautecombe Abbey.jpg|thumb|The nineteenth century cenotaph to Peter of Savoy at Hautecombe Abbey]]
When Peter's nephew [[Boniface, Count of Savoy]], died without heirs in 1263, the question of the succession to Savoy lay unanswered. Besides Peter, there was another possible claimant, the fifteen-year-old [[Thomas III of Piedmont]] (1248–82), the eldest son of Peter's elder brother [[Thomas, Count of Flanders]]. Peter returned to Savoy and was recognised as count over his nephew. This led to a dispute between Savoy and Piedmont that was to outlast Peter and Thomas.<ref name="Marshall, John 2023"/>

Peter brought many ideas back from his travels around Europe to improve Savoy. He started building castles with a more round form, rather than the square which had existed to that point in Savoy. He divided the county into [[Bailiwick|bailis]] and divided those into [[Castellany|castellanies]]. He also established an office of accounts at [[Chambéry]] to more completely manage financial matters. He was the first count of Savoy to issue laws to cover the whole county.{{sfn|Cox|1967|pp=20–21}} These statutes included the provision that his judges not delay justice which is attributable to the [[Magna Carta]] in England<ref name="Marshall, John 2023"/>

Peter came into conflict with [[Rudolf I of Germany|Rudolf of Habsburg]], and Henri of [[Raron]], [[List of bishops of Sion|Bishop of Sion]].

Peter died without a male heir in 1268, at the castle of Pierre-Châtel, now in [[Virignin]], and was buried in [[Hautecombe Abbey]].<ref name=HDS/> His will left his English lands to Eleanor of Provence, the Queen of England, his niece, modified by a codicil which left his Sussex lands to his nephews, Amadeus and Louis. These bequests were the subject of modification by King Henry III of England who had given the [[Honour of Richmond]] to his son-in-law, [[John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond]] and the Sussex lands to the Lord Edward. But as per his will, he was succeeded as Count of Savoy by his remaining brother, [[Philip I, Count of Savoy|Philip]], former procurator and [[Archbishop of Lyon|archbishop-elect of Lyon]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Chevalier|first=Jules |title=Quarante années de l'histoire des évêques de Valence au Moyen Age: Guillaume et Philippe de Savoie 1226-1267|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hrJmyo2jT-gC&pg=PA101|year=1889|publisher=Picard|location=Paris|language=fr|pages=101-102}}</ref><ref name="Marshall, John 2023"/>