Provence both held at different times territories on the Italian side of the Alps. The Italian dominions of the family remained for a long while quite secondary to its Burgundian possessions, and the latter may therefore be traced out first. ♦Advance of Savoy in Burgundy. | Faucigny and the Genevois.♦ The main object of Savoyard policy in this region was necessarily the acquisition of the lands of _Faucigny_ and the _Genevois_. ♦First advance north of the lake.♦ But the final incorporation of those lands did not take place till they were still more completely hemmed in by the Savoyard dominions through the extension of the Savoyard power to the north of the Lake. ♦Grant of Moudon. 1207.♦ This began early in the thirteenth century by a royal grant of _Moudon_ to Count Thomas of Savoy. ♦Romont the northern capital.♦ _Romont_ was next won, and became the centre of the Savoyard power north of the Lake. ♦Peter, Count of Savoy. 1263-1268.♦ Soon after, through the conquests of Peter of Savoy, who was known as the Little Charlemagne and who plays a part in English as well as in Burgundian history, these possessions grew into a large dominion, stretching along a great part of the shores of the Lake of Neufchâtel and reaching as far north as _Murten_ or _Morat_. ♦1239-1268.♦ But it was a straggling, and in some parts fragmentary, dominion, the continuity of which was broken by the scattered possessions of the Bishops of Lausanne and other ecclesiastical and temporal lords. This extension of dominion brought Peter into close connexion with the lands and cities which were afterwards to form the Old League of High Germany. ♦His relations with Bern.♦ Bern especially, the power to which his conquests were afterwards to be transferred, looked on him as a protector. ♦Barons of Vaud. | Union of Vaud with the elder branch. 1349.♦ This new dominion north of the Lake was, after Peter’s reign, held for a short time by a separate branch of the Savoyard princes as _Barons of Vaud_; but in the middle of the fourteenth century, their barony came into the direct possession of the elder branch of the house. The lands of Faucigny and the Genevois were thus altogether surrounded by the Savoyard territory. ♦Faucigny held by the Dauphins of the Viennois.♦ Faucigny had passed to the Dauphins of the Viennois, who were the constant rivals of the Savoyard counts, down to the time of the practical transfer of their dauphiny to France. ♦Savoy acquires Faucigny and Gex. 1355.♦ Soon after that annexation, Savoy obtained _Faucigny_, with _Gex_ and some other districts beyond the Rhone, in exchange for some small Savoyard possessions within the Dauphiny. ♦The Genevois. 1401.♦ The long struggle for the Genevois, the _county_ of Geneva, was ended by its purchase in the beginning of the fifteenth century. This left the _city_ of Geneva altogether surrounded by Savoyard territory, a position which before long altogether changed the relations between the Savoyard counts and the city.