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• Roepnaam Adelheid, Blanche.
• Zij is geboren rond 947.
• Zij is overleden in het jaar 1026 in Avignon, Frankrijk.
• Een kind van Fulco II van Anjou en Gerberga van Orléans

Gezin van Adelheid Blanche (Adelheid, Blanche) van Anjou

Zij is getrouwd met Willem I le Libérateur van Provence.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 984.

Kind(eren):

1. Constance Taillefer van Arles  986-1034 
2. Ermengarde   

Notities over Adelheid Blanche (Adelheid, Blanche) van Anjou

Zijn eerste vrouw was Arsinde (ovl. - 983), mogelijk dochter van graaf Arnold II van Comminges. Willems tweede vrouw (huwelijk 984) was Adelheid, dochter van Fulco II van Anjou en gescheiden van Lodewijk V van Frankrijk. Willem was vader van:

mogelijk Odila (976-1032), gehuwd met Miron-Laget van Sisteron en daarna met Laugier van Nice, met wie ze vijf kinderen kreeg

Willem II

Constance (986/987 - 1032), in 1000 gehuwd met Robert II van Frankrijk

mogelijk Ermengarde, gehuwd met Robert I van Auvergne.

Het is duidelijk dat Odila een dochter van Arsinde moet zijn en dat Constance en Ermengarde dochters van Adelheid zouden moeten zijn. Er is onduidelijkheid over wie de moeder van Willem II zou zijn.

Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou[a] (c.?940 –1026) was the countess by marriage of Gévaudan and Forez, of Toulouse, of Provence, and of Burgundy; and queen consort of Aquitaine. She was the regent of Gevaudan during the minority of her sons in the 960s, and the regent of Provence during the minority of her stepson from 994 until 999.

She was the daughter of Fulk II, Count of Anjou and Gerberga and sister of Geoffrey Greymantle.[1] She successfully increased Angevin fortunes being married a total of five times.[2] Her family hadbecome upwardly mobile to the point that, as a member of just the third generation from Ingelger, Adelaied-Blanche had married into the highest ranks of the older nobility of western Francia.[2]

Her first marriage was to Stephen, the powerful Count of Gévaudan[3] and Forez in eastern Aquitaine.[4] She was no more than fifteen at the time[5] and he was much older. Still, they had three children who survived to adulthood.[4] Stephen died in the early 960s[4] and after his death she ruled the lands as countess-regent for her sons William, Pons and Bertrand.[6] She continued to govern Gevaudan and Forez while her remaining two sons learned to rule their father's counties.[6] Additionally, after her oldest son William's death in 975 she raised his infant son Stephen.[6] Her brother Guy(a.k.a. Guido II) was made Count-Bishop of le Puy in 975 amidst local opposition and at his request Adelaide, acting for her sons Guy and Bertrand, led an army to aid him in establishing the "Peace of God" in le Puy.[6]

In 982, as the widow of her second husband, Raymond III, count of Toulouse, she wed Louis V of France, son of Lothair of France.[7] The two were crowned King and Queen of Aquitaine at Brioude by her brother Bishop Guy of le Puy.[7] But the marriage lasted just over a year due to the couple being unable to peacefully live together.[7] There was also a significant age difference—he being just fifteen and Adelaide-Blanche being over forty.[7] Adelaide found herself in a precarious situation with king Lothair but was rescued by Count William I of Provence[b][8] who she subsequently married inc.?984.[9] Count William of Provence died in 994 shortly after becoming a monk at Avignon.[10]

In 1010 king Robert II of France along with Odo II, Count of Blois went to Rome to secure an annulment from Robert's second wife, Constance of Arles, Adelaide-Blanche's daughter by William I. Pope Sergius IV, a friend to the Angevin counts, upheld the marriage and additionally upheld Adelaide's struggle to maintain control of lands at Montmajour Abbey.[11] These lands, at Perth, had been donated by Count William I of Provence with his wife Adelaide-Blanche, as well as by a previous donation by William's father, Boson.[12] A dispute over these lands arose by four brothers, sons of Nevolongus, who pope Sergius threatened with excommunication if they did not withdraw their claim.[12] The claim was withdrawn and the lands remained under the control of Adelaide-Blanche acting as regent for her son William II of Provence.[12]

The cloister of Montmajour Abbey her final resting place.

Her fifth marriage was to Otto-William, Count of Burgundy,[c] who subsequently died 21 September 1026.[13] Adelaide-Blanche herself died in 1026, aged approximately eighty-six.[3] The location of her death was probably at Avignon, since the year of her death is recorded by Arnoux, a monk of the abbey of Saint-André, near Avignon. She was buried in Montmajour Abbey, near Arles, considered at the time as the burial place of the family of counts of Provence.

Marriages and children

She married first, c.?955, Stephen, Count of Gévaudan.[14][15] Children of this marriage were:

William, (c.?955-975).[6]

Pons, Count of Gévaudan and Forez. He died aft. 26 February 1011.[16]

Bertrand, Count of Gévaudan.[16]

Almodis of Gévaudan, she married Adalbert I de Charroux, Count de la Haute March.[16]

Her second marriage was to Raymond III, Count of Toulouse and Prince of Gothia,[2] in 975. He died in 978.

She married as her third husband Louis V of France and the two were crowned King and Queen of Aquitaine but the marriage ended in annulment.[7][15]

As her fourth husband she married, c.?994—996, William I of Provence[10][15] Together they had:

Constance of Arles,[15] who later married Robert II of France.[10]

Ermengarde, she married Robert I, Count of Auvergne.[10]

Tota-Adelaide, she married Bernard I, Count of Besalú.[10]

Her final marriage was to Otto-William, Count of Burgundy. He and Adelaide had no children.[13]

Notes

^ Bernard S. Bachrach refers to her as Adelaide-Blanch throughout his book Fulk Nerra (1993), and in his article 'Henry II and the Angevin Tradition', Albion, 16, 2, (1984), p. 117 n. 35 in writing of Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou states that Angevins were known to give daughters two names, giving her aunt Adelaide-Blanche (the subject of this article) as an example. Constance Bouchard, in Those of My Blood (2001) consistently refers to her as Adelaide-Blanche. In Europäische Stammtafeln (citations below) she is called either Adelaide or Adelaide (Blanche). At least two chronicles, the Chronicle S. Albin and the Chronicle S. Maxent. call her Blanche, See: Norgate, Eng. Under the Angevin Kings, Vol. 1 (1887), p. 191. In the work Rodulfi Glabri Historiarum libri quinque, Ed. & Trans. John France (2002), on pp. 16-17 n. 5 she is referred to as "Adelaide, also called Blanche" while on pp. 106-7 n. 5 she is called "Adelaide-Blanche." Also see the reference to the letter by pope Benedict VIII addressing her as Countess Adelaide, "cognomento Blanche" in the note below. The name Adelaide-Blanche has clearly become the preferred version of her name among leading modern historians andhas historial precedents.

^ Rodulfus Glaber had a somewhat different version. That Lothar's son Louis was wed to a woman from Aquitaine (Adelaide also called Blanche), and she wanting a separation and being a clever woman lured her young husband to Aquitaine where she deserted him and returned to her own family; that it was Lewis who was rescued by his father king Lothar. See: Rodulfi Glabri Historiarum libri quinque, Ed. & Trans. John France (2002), on pp. 16-17 & n. 5.

^ The last of Adelaide-Blanche's marriages has been doubted by some, but it is clear from other sources that Adelaide was the name of his second wife and she was addressed as Countess Adelaide,"cogomento Blanche" in a letter addressed to her husband, herself, and his son Raynald by the pope. See: Bouchard, Those of My Blood (2001), pp. 24-5. The 1016 letter was from Pope Benedict VIII and addressed her specifically as "Adelaidis comitissa, cognomento Blancha"; Letter 16, Patrologia Latina, 139: 1603. See: Constance B. Bouchard, 'The Origins of the French Nobility: A Reassessment', The American Historical Review, Vol. 86, No. 3 (Jun., 1981), p. 516 n. 42; Bouchard, Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198, (1987), p. 270

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