Two documents from the archives of the Alinge (=Allinge) family of Vaud in Switzerland.

1. Letter, signed by, and with the seal of, Louis of Savoy as King of Cyprus.

The letter begins: "Instructions des choses que de la part de nous Loys, roy de Chypres, aura a fere par devers nostre trés amé cousin le duc de Millan, notre trés chier et bien amé conseiller, premier Chambellan & ambass[ad]eur le Sr de Codrée en tochant la requeste que de notre part aura affere contre le person de messier Guiotin de Norès et ses gens faites et expédiees a Chambéry le mai 29 1465…". The instructions were given to Guillaume d’Allinge, Sieur de Codrée; they concern proceedings to be taken against Guiotin de Nores, apparently a member of the Nores family of Cyprus. (See footnote 60 in R. C. Mueller, The Venetian Money Market… Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Nores is mentioned as a Cypriot who deposited 7,000 gold ducats in a Venetian bank in 1474.)

The Dukes of Savoy were connected with the Lusignans of Cyprus through marriage. Louis was the son of Louis of Savoy and of Anne of Lusignan, daughter of King Janus of Cyprus. Louis married his cousin Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus, in 1459. At that time Charlotte, daughter of John II Lusignan, was fighting against her illegitimate half-brother James, who claimed the kingdom of Cyprus. Dukes of Savoy claimed the title of King of Cyprus from that time on.

2. Sutrieu, Martin de. [document signed by Sutrieu as representative of the Duchy of Savoy at Rome entitled "Testes examinati parte spectablilis ducalis consiliarii domii de Alingis domini Coudree, contra venetos".

Depositions concerning an act of Venetian piracy against Queen Charlotte of Cyprus and Jean d’Alinge, chamberlain of the Duke of Savoy, on their journey from Cyprus to Rome.

These two documents come from the archive of d’Alinge, that is, the archives of the Alinge or Allinge family of Vaud in Switzerland, which was closely related to the Duchy of Savoy.