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• Zij is geboren in het jaar 932 in Orbe Castle, Orbe, Vaud, Switzerland.

  Let op: Leeftijd bij trouwen (??-??-947) lag beneden de 16 jaar (15).

• Titel: Holy Roman Empress
• (Relationship) : 34th Great Grandmother.
• (Ancestry) : Ottonian Dynasty.
• (Alternative Name) : Adelaide of Italy.
• (Alternative Name Spelling) : Adelheid.
• Zij is overleden op 16 december 999 in Selz, Alsace, France, zij was toen 67 jaar oud.
• Een kind van RUDOLPH de BURGUNDY en BERTHA von SCHWABIA

Gezin van ADELAIDE de BURGUNDY

(1) Zij is getrouwd met OTTO von SAXONY.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 951 te Saxony, Germany, zij was toen 19 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. OTTO von SAXONY  ± 955-983 

• Het echtpaar heeft gemeenschappelijke voorouders.



(2) Zij is getrouwd met Lothair II of ITALY.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 947, zij was toen 15 jaar oud.




Kind(eren):

1. Emma of ITALY  ± 948-988 


• Het echtpaar heeft gemeenschappelijke voorouders.



Notities over ADELAIDE de BURGUNDY

Adelaide of Italy (931 - 16 December 999), also called Adelaide of Burgundy, was the second wife of Holy Roman Emperor Otto the Great and was crowned as the Holy Roman Empress with him by Pope John XII in Rome on February 2, 962. She was the daughter-in-law of St. Queen Matilda of East Francia. Empress Adelaide was perhaps the most prominent European woman of the 10th century; she was regent of the Holy Roman Empire as the guardian of her grandson in 991-995.

Born in Orbe, modern day Switzerland, she was the daughter of Rudolf II of Burgundy, a member of the Elder House of Welf, and Bertha of Swabia. Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair. They had a daughter, Emma of Italy.

The Calendar of Saints states that her first husband was poisoned by the holder of real power, his successor, Berengar of Ivrea, who attempted to cement his political power by forcing her to marry his son, Adalbert; when she refused and fled, she was tracked down and imprisoned for four months at Como.

According to Adelheid's contemporary biographer, Odilo of Cluny, she managed to escape from captivity. After a time spent in the marshes nearby, she was rescued and taken to a "certain impregnable fortress," likely the fortified town of Canossa near Reggio. She managed to send an emissary to throw herself on the mercy of Otto the Great. His brothers were equally willing to save the dowager queen, but Otto got an army into the field. The widow met her rescuer at the old Lombard capital of Pavia and they married in 951. They had four children. Pope John XII crowned Otto Holy Roman Emperor in Rome on February 2, 962, and, breaking tradition, also crowned Adelaide as Holy Roman Empress.

In Germany, the crushing of a revolt in 953 by Liudolf, Otto's son by his first marriage, cemented Adelheid's position, for she retained all her dower lands. She and their eleven-year-old son, the crown prince who became Otto II, accompanied Otto in 966 on his third expedition to Italy, where Otto restored the newly elected Pope John XIII to his throne (and executed some of the Roman rioters who had deposed him). Adelheid remained in Rome for six years while Otto ruled his kingdom from Italy. Their son Otto II was crowned co-emperor in 967, then married the Byzantine princess Theophanu in April 972, resolving the conflict between the two empires in southern Italy, as well as ensuring the imperial succession. Adelheid and her husband then returned to Germany, where Otto died in May 973, at the same Memleben palace where his father had died 37 years earlier.

Adelaide had long entertained close relations with Cluny, then the center of the movement for ecclesiastical reform, and in particular with its abbots Majolus and Odilo. She retired to a nunnery she had founded in c. 991 at Selz in Alsace. Though she never became a nun, she spent the rest of her days there in prayer. On her way to Burgundy to support her nephew Rudolf III against a rebellion, she died at Selz Abbey on December 16, 999, days short of the millennium she thought would bring the Second Coming of Christ. She had constantly devoted herself to the service of the church and peace, and to the empire as guardian of both; she also interested herself in the conversion of the Slavs. She was thus a principal agent-almost an embodiment-of the work of the pre-schism Orthodox Catholic Church at the end of the Early Middle Ages in the construction of the religious culture of Central Europe. Some of her relics are preserved in a shrine in Hanover. Her feast day, December 16, is still kept in many German dioceses.

In 947, Adelaide was married to King Lothair II of Italy. The union produced one child:

Emma of Italy - born 948, queen of France and wife of Lothair of France

In 951, Adelaide was married to King Otto I, the future Holy Roman Emperor. The union produced four children:

Henry - born 952
Bruno - born 953
Matilda - born 954, the first Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg
Otto II - born 955, later Holy Roman Emperor
SOURCE: Wikipedia


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