Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy
Antipope 1439 to 1449, count of Savoy · France · Lived 1383 to 1451 · aged 67
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Something wrong?He ruled Savoy for half a century, then tried to rule the Church. The first duke of his house spent his last decade as the final antipope with serious backing - Felix V, an elected rival to Rome who couldn't hold the throne.
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Amadeus inherited the county at eight in 1391 and spent twenty-five years building a state that worked: diplomatic deals, internal reforms, institutions that outlasted him. Emperor Sigismund elevated Savoy to a duchy in 1416, making Amadeus its first duke. He abdicated in 1440 and withdrew to a semi-monastic life. Then the Council of Basel elected him pope in 1439 as Felix V, opposing Eugene IV in a schism that dragged into Nicholas V's reign. He was the last antipope to command real clerical support, though he resigned in 1449, two years before his death.
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