Ancestral Trails 2016 » ADELAIDE CAPET (1009-????)

Personal data ADELAIDE CAPET 

• She was born in the year 1009 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France.
• Title: Countess of Contenance, Countess of Flanders, Duchess of Normandy
• (Relationship) : 28th, 29th & 30th Great Grandmother.
• (Alternative Name) : Alix, Adelaide, Adela, Alais, Aelis Capet.
• She died on January 8, 1078/79 in Monastaere de L'Ordre de St Benoist, Messines, France, she was 69 years old.Source 1
• A child of ROBERT I CAPET and CONSTANCE d'ARLES

Household of ADELAIDE CAPET

(1) She is married to RICHARD de NORMANDY.

They got married January 1026/27, she was 17 years old.

• The couple has common ancestors.



(2) She is married to BALDWIN de FLANDERS.

They got married in the year 1028 at Amiens, Somme, Picardie, France, she was 19 years old.




Child(ren):

1. BALDWIN de FLANDERS  1029-1070 
2. ROBERT de FLANDERS  1035-1093 
3. MATILDA de FLANDERS  1031-1083 


• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about ADELAIDE CAPET

Adèle of France, known also as Adela the Holy or Adela of Messines; (1009 - 8 January 1079, Messines), was, by marriage, the Duchess of Normandy (January 1027 - August 1027), Countess of Flanders (1035-1067).

Adèle was the second daughter of Robert II (the Pious), and Constance of Arles. She is usually identified with the noble Adèle who in January 1027 married Richard III, Duke of Normandy. The marriage was short-lived for on 6 August of that same year Richard III suddenly died. Adèle of France married Baldwin V, Count of Flanders in 1028.

Adèle's influence lay mainly through her family connections. On the death of her brother, Henry I of France, the guardianship of his seven-year-old son Philip I fell jointly on his widow, Ann of Kiev, and on his brother-in-law, Adèle's husband, so that from 1060 to 1067, they were Regents of France.

In 1071, Adèle's third son, Robert the Frisian, planned to invade Flanders even though at that time the Count of Flanders was Adèle's grandson, Arnulf III. When she heard about Robert's plans, she asked Philip I to stop him. Philip sent soldiers to support Arnulf including a contingent of ten Norman knights led by William FitzOsborn. Robert's forces attacked Arnulf's numerically superior army at Cassel before it could organize, and Arnulf was killed along with William FitzOsborn. Robert's overwhelming victory led to Philip making peace with Robert and investing him as Count of Flanders. A year later, Philip married Robert's stepdaughter, Bertha of Holland, and in 1074, Philip restored the seigneurie of Corbie to the crown.

Adèle had a strong interest in Baldwin V’s church reforms and was behind her husband’s founding of several collegiate churches. Directly or indirectly, she was responsible for establishing the Colleges of Aire (1049), Lille (1050) and Harelbeke (1064) as well as the abbeys of Messines (1057) and Ename (1063). After Baldwin’s death in 1067, she went to Rome, took the nun’s veil from the hands of Pope Alexander II and retired to the Benedictine convent of Messines, near Ypres. There she later died and was buried at the convent. Honoured as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, her commemoration day is 8 September.

Family
Her possible first marriage was in 1027 to Richard III, Duke of Normandy (died 1027). They had no children.

Her marriage in 1028 was to Baldwin V, Count of Flanders (died 1067).[3] Their children were:

Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (c. 1030-1070).[3]
Matilda of Flanders (c. 1032-1083). In c. 1053 she married William, Duke of Normandy, the future King of England and had issue.
Robert I, Count of Flanders (c. 1035-1093).
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adela_of_France


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