Aymon II was the Count of Geneva

Count of Geneva

The County of Geneva, largely corresponding to the later Genevois province, originated in the tenth century, in the Burgundian Kingdom of Arles which fell to the Holy Roman Empire in 1032.-History:...

 from 1265. He was the son and heir of Count Rudolf

Rudolf of Geneva

Rudolf or Rudolph was the Count of Geneva from 1252 until his death in 1265. He was the eldest son of William II, and was described by a Renaissance historian as “the more quarrelsome son of a quarrelsome father.” He was a constant warrior, and his most frequent foes were of the House of...

, but died heirless himself and was succeeded by his brother Amadeus II

Amadeus II of Geneva

Amadeus II was the Count of Geneva, which included the Genevois, but not the city of Geneva, from 1280. He was the second son of Count Rudolf and succeeded his heirless brother Aymon II.-Alliance and war :...

. According to one modern historian, he was “overawed by the power of the count of Savoy”, and did little during his fifteen-year reign to recover the lands and jurisdictions lost to the Savoyards by his father and grandfather.

In 1279 Aymon married Constance, a daughter of Gaston VII of Béarn

Gaston VII of Béarn

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 and viscountess in her own right of Marsan

Marsan

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 and Bigorre

Bigorre

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. The marriage was arranged by Gaston's second wife, Beatrice “la Grande Dauphine”, who as a daughter of Peter II of Savoy and widow of Guigues VII of Viennois, was related to two traditional rivals of the counts of Geneva. Constance was twice widowed herself, having been married very briefly to Alfonso, a son of James I of Aragon

James I of Aragon

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, and to Henry of Almain

Henry of Almain

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, son of Richard, King of Germany

Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall

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. She bore him no children.

Late in his life, Aymon may have become involved an anti-Angevin

Capetian House of Anjou

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 alliance under the auspices of the Crown of Aragon

Crown of Aragon

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. In 1280, Peter III of Aragon

Peter III of Aragon

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 (James's son), who had a claim on the Kingdom of Sicily

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, then ruled by an Angevin, sent a secretive message, "to treat of certain affairs", to several princes who were threatened by Angevin power in the County of Provence and the Piedmont

Piedmont

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. Dalmau de Villarasa, the ambassador bearing the letters, was accredited to, among others, the count of Geneva.