A feudal county of the Holy Roman Empire straddling the western Alps between France and Italy, built by the House of Savoy from its 1003 founding into the nucleus of the later Savoyard state.
Elevated to the Duchy of Savoy in 1416 by Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, continuing the same House of Savoy dynasty under a higher rank — the Duchy is a separate future record, not yet added.
The atlas holds 5 border frames for County of Savoy — the shape you scrub through changes in 1003 · 1033 · 1150 · 1190 · 1290.
The standard English-language political history of the County of Savoy's formative first two centuries, spanning into this bucket's window.