Amadeus I, Count of Savoy

thumb|413x413px|Portrait of Amadeus, painted centuries after his death

Amadeus I (c. 1016 – c. 1051), nicknamed of the Tail or la Coda (Latin , "tailed"), was an early count of the House of Savoy. He was probably the eldest son of Humbert I. His nickname derives from an anecdote, preserved only in a thirteenth-century manuscript, that when he met the Emperor Henry III at Verona in 1046, he refused to enter the emperor's chambers without his large train of knights, his "tail". of unknown family, gave the church of Matassine to Cluny. The act was witnessed by one Humbert and his wife Ausilia—who were perhaps Amadeus's father and mother—and also by his brother Otto and by the king and queen of Burgundy, Rudolf III and Ermengarda.