MARGHERITA di SAVOIA, blessed. — Daughter of Amedeo di Savoia, prince of Achaea, and of Caterina di Ginevra, b. at Pinerolo around 1390. In 1403 she married Teodoro II di Monferrato, widowed in 1418. She withdrew to monastic life among the Dominican nuns of Alba, where she d. on 23 November 1464. Her cult was confirmed on 8 October 1669 by Clement IX. Feast on 27 November.
BIBL.: F. G. Allaria, Vita della b. M. di S., 2 vols., Alba 1877; C. Testore, Beati e venerabili di casa Savoia, Turin 1928, pp. 53–71; E. Fedelini, M. di Savoia-Acaia «La Grande», Rome 1940. Francesco Cognasso