Philibert II, Duke of Savoy

Philibert succeeded as Duke of Savoy in 1497. He married Margaret of Austria in 1501, and their union gave her an influential place in Savoyard government before his death in 1504.

Margaret later commemorated him through the royal monastery at Brou. His marriage to Margaret of Austria shaped her Savoyard experience and the memorial and political identity she carried into her later regency. Philibert II, Duke of Savoy was born in Pont-d’Ain.

In Rozsa Gaston’s Margaret of Austria, Returned to her Habsburg family, Margaret is sent into two further dynastic marriages: first to John, Prince of Asturias, and then to Philibert II of Savoy.