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- BIOGRAPHY
Aimon was the elder son of Raoul, comte de Genève, and Marie de Coligny, dame de Varey. He was the count of Geneva from his father's death in 1265. 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.
On 16 September 1271 Aimon married Agnes von Mömpelgard, dame d'Aresches et de Roulans, daughter of Amédé III von Mömpelgard, sire de Montfaucon, and Mathilde, Gräfin von Saarbrücken. Their daughters Jeanne and Agathe would have progeny, Jeanne marrying Philippe de Vienne, sire de Pagny, and Agathe marrying his brother Jean de Vienne, sire de Mirebel.
Agnes died in 1278, and in September 1279 Aimon married Constance de Montcada, vicomtesse de Gevaudan, comtesse de Bigorre, widow of Alfonso, infante of Aragón, and Henry of Alamayne, and daughter of Gaston VII de Montcada, 19.vicomte de Béarn, and Mathe de Mastas, comtesse de Bigorre. The marriage was arranged by Gaston's second wife Beatrix de Savoie, dame de Faucigny, regent of Dauphiné, who as a daughter of Peter II de Savoie and widow of Guigues VII, dauphin de Viennois, comte d'Albon et Grenoble, was related to two traditional rivals of the counts of Geneva. Constance bore him no children.
Later in his life, Aimon may have become involved in an anti-Angevin alliance under the auspices of the Crown of Aragón. In 1280 Pedro III 'the Great', king of Aragón (son of Jaime I 'the Conqueror'), who had a claim on the kingdom of Sicily, then ruled by an Angevin, sent a secret message, 'to treat of certain affairs', to several princes who were threatened by Angevin power in the county of Provence and the Piedmont. Dalmau de Villerasa, the ambassador bearing the letters, was accredited to, among others, the count of Geneva.
Aimon died on 18 November 1280. He was succeeded by his brother Amédée II.
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