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Personal data Adele Beauclerc [illegitimate] van Engeland van (Adele Beauclerc [illegitimate] van Engeland van) Normandie Princess of England/Normandy 

• Alternative name: Adela Princess Of England
• First name Adele Beauclerc [illegitimate] van Engeland van.
• She was born about 1062 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France.Sources 5, 6
• Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 7, 1893.
• Profession: Moniale,.
• She died on March 8, 1137 in Marcigny sur Loire.Sources 6, 7
• She is buried in Caen, 14000, Basse-Normandie, France.
• A child of Wiliiam 'the conquerer' [illegitimate] de Normandie and Mathilde van Vlaanderen
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of Adele Beauclerc [illegitimate] van Engeland van (Adele Beauclerc [illegitimate] van Engeland van) Normandie Princess of England/Normandy

She is married to Etienne II Henri de Blois.

They got married in the year 1080 at Chartres // Breteuil, Eure, Normandy, France.

Child(ren):

1. Guillaume de Blois  ± 1086-± 1150 
2. Emma de Champagne-Blois  ± 1058-????
3. Adela (Lithuaise) de Blois Champagne  ± 1090-± 1120 
4. Mahaud de Blois  ± 1090-1120 
5. Philip de Blois  ± 1092-????
6. Agnès de Blois  ± 1090-± 1132 
7. Stefan (=Etienne) de Blois  ± 1096-1154 
8. Eléonore de Blois  ± 1090-????
9. Humbert de Blois  ± 1094-????
10. Thibaud IV de Blois  > 1090-1152 
11. Alix de Blois  ± 1100-± 1145
12. Eudes de Blois  ± 1099-1171
13. Gilette de Champagne  < 1102-???? 
14. Henri de Blois  ????-1171
15. Emma de Blois  ± 1080-???? 

Notes about Adele Beauclerc [illegitimate] van Engeland van (Adele Beauclerc [illegitimate] van Engeland van) Normandie Princess of England/Normandy

Princess of England.  died a nun

"Miroir exemplaire, rose de la patrie...
D'éclatante renommée, de brillante lignée"
Baudri, Abbé de Bourgueil, futur Archevêque de Dol
Moniale, elle prend le voile à l'Abbaye Cistercienne de Marcigny (71) en 1122.

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Adela, French ADÉLE (b. 1062?--d. 1137), daughter of William I the Conqueror of England and his wife, Matilda of Flanders, and mother of Stephen, king of England, whose right to the throne derived through her. She was married to Stephen, earl of Meaux and Brie, in 1080 at Breteuil. Upon the death of his father in 1090, her husband succeeded to the earldom of Blois and Chartres. She appears to have played an active role in the administration of her husband's lands, regularly witnessing his charters, took an active interest in civil and ecclesiastical affairs, and was instrumental in rebuilding the catherdral of Chartres in stone. Having inherited her father's appetite and ability to rule, she became regent in 1095 when she persuaded her popular but weak-willed husband to join the First Crusade to the Holy Land. Although in charge of the central funds of the Crusade, Stephen deserted at Antioch in 1098, understandably enough in face of overwhelming odds. Unfortunately for his reputation, the crusaders survived and succeeded in capturing Jerusalem in 1099. After Stephen's return home in 1099, Adela waged a sustained campaign of bullying and moral blackmail that extended into their bedroom where, between intercourse, she would urge Stephen to think of his reputation and return to the Holy Land. In the end, her nagging worked and Stephen departed east once more in 1101, to meet a satisfactorily noble death at Ramlah in 1102. No longer a coward's wife but more congenially a hero's widow, Adela continued to rule Blois-Chartres during the minority of her sons. Anselm, her guest and teacher in 1097, was often entertained by her during 1103 and 1105 and she affected a temporary reconciliation between him and her brother, Henry I, who lavished patronage on her second son, Stephen, and appointed a third, Henry, bishop of Winchester, the richest see in England. In 1107 Adela entertained Pope Pascal during Easter and in the following year was hostess to Bohemund of Antioch. She made her son Theobald her successor in 1109, and persuaded him to join her brother Henry I against France in 1117. In 1120 she retired to the abbey of Marcigny-sur-Loire where she died in 1137. By all accounts a forceful personality, Adela's qualities were not uncommon among women artistocrats, although more often they found an outlet in the running of nunneries. Adela's secular career, as de facto ruler for more than a decade of one of the most powerful principalities of northern France, is exceptional testimony to the power of breeding as well as to her own determination. She was a benevolent patroness of churches and monasteries. Although married to a French count and living to see a son crowned king of England, she chose to be buried beside her mother at Caen under an inscription 'Adela, filia regis'. She was always the Conqueror's daughter. [Sources: Who's Who in Early Medieval England, Christopher Tyerman, Shepheard-Walwyn, Ltd., London, 1996; Encyclopædia Britannica CD, 1997]
SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestal File # 8XJ0-3C (familysearch.org)
WEB:
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Ancestors/D escendants Eustache King of Jerusalem
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