Margaret of Savoy, Countess of Saint-Pol

Margaret was born in April 1439 in Turin, Italy, the eldest surviving daughter and one of the nineteen children of Louis I, Duke of Savoy and Princess Anne of Cyprus.

Margaret brought a dowry of 100,000 scudi, and in return received Trino, Morano, Borgo San Martino, and Mombaruzzo.

Two and a half years later, on 12 July 1466, Margaret married her second husband, Peter II of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol and Soissons,[1] the second eldest son of Louis of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol and Brienne and Jeanne de Bar, Countess of Marle and Soissons.

They had: Margaret died at Bruges on 9 March 1484[3] and less than six months after her husband Pierre, and she was buried at the Abbey of Happlaincourt.

Margaret was survived by her two daughters, Marie and Françoise, her three sons having died in early infancy.