Charles II or Charles John Amadeus (Carlo Giovanni Amedeo in Italian) b.1489-d.1496, was the Duke of Savoy from 1490 to 1496 but his mother Blanche of Montferrato[?] was the actual ruler as a regent.
... French Reformed refugees to England, Germany, Switzerland, Africa and America. A free (meaning, not state controlled) synod of the Reformed Church emerged in 1848 ...