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Personal data Adelheid van Normandie 

• She was born in the year 1025.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Adelheid van Normandië (ca. 1026 - ca. 1090) was mogelijk een dochter van Robert de Duivel en een onbekende bijvrouw.
  
  Na het overlijden van haar eerste echtgenoot Engelram in 1053 volgde ze deze op als Vrouwe van Aumale. Nadat haar derde echtgenoot door haar (half)broer Willem de Veroveraar in 1069 als graaf van Aumale werd aangeduid, werd ze ook gravin van Aumale.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Adelaide of Normandy (or Adeliza) (c. 1030 - bef. 1090) was the sister of William the Conqueror and was Countess of Aumale in her own right.
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  Life
  
  She was the daughter of Robert the Magnificent,[a] Duke of Normandy and born c.1030[1] Elisabeth Van Houts, in her article Les femmes dans l’histoire du duché de Normandie (or Women in the history of ducal Normandy) mentions Countess Adelaide as one of those notable Norman women who were known to have exerted a strong influence on their children especially with regard to passing on their own family history.[2]
  
  Adelaide's first marriage to Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu potentially gave then Duke William a powerful ally in upper Normandy.[3] But at the Council of Reims in 1049, when the marriage of Duke William with Matilda of Flanders was prohibited based on consanguinity, so were those of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne and Enguerrand of Ponthieu, who was already married to Adelaide.[4] Adelaide's marriage was apparently annulled c.1049/50 and another marriage was arranged for her, this time to Lambert II, Count of Lens, younger son of Eustace I, Count of Boulogne forming a new marital alliance between Normandy and Boulogne.[5] Lambert was killed in 1054 at Lille, aiding Baldwin V, Count of Flanders against Emperor Henry III.[6] Now widowed, Adelaide resided at Aumale, probably part of her dower from her first husband, Engurerand, or part of a settlement after the capture of Guy of Ponthieu, her brother-in-law.[b][5] As a dowager Adelaide began a semi-religious retirement and became involved with the church at Auchy presenting them with a number of gifts.[5] In 1060 she was called upon again to form another marital alliance, this time to a younger man Odo, Count of Champagne.[7] Odo seems to have been somewhat of a disappointment as he appears on only one of the Conqueror's charters and received no land in England; his wife being a tenant-in-chief in her own right.[7]
  
  In 1082 King William and Queen Matilda gave to the abbey of the Holy Trinity in Caen the town of Le Homme in the Cotentin with a provision to the Countess of Albamarla (Aumale), his sister, for a life tenancy.[8] In 1086, as Comitissa de Albatnarla,[8] as she was listed in the Domesday Book, was shown as having numerous holdings in both Suffolk and Essex,[9] one of the very few Norman noblewomen to have held lands in England at Domesday as a tenant-in-chief.[10] She was also given the lordship of Holderness which was held after her death by her 3rd husband, Odo, the by then disinherited Count of Champagne; the lordship then passed to their son, Stephen.[8] Adelaide died before 1090.[11]
  Family
  
  Adelaide married three times; first to Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu (died 1053)[12] by whom she had issue:
  
  Adelaide II, Countess of Aumale, m. William de Bréteuil, Lord of Bréteuil, son of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford.[8]
  
  She married secondly Lambert II, Count of Lens (died 1054),[11] they had a daughter:
  
  Judith of Lens, m. Waltheof Earl of Huntingdon and Northumbria.[13]
  
  Adelaide married thirdly in 1060 Odo II, Count of Champagne (d. aft. 1096),[14] by whom she had a son:
  
  Stephen, Count of Aumale.

• She died in the year 1087, she was 62 years old.
• A child of Robert "de dUivel" van Normandie and Herleva Arlette

Household of Adelheid van Normandie

(1) She is married to Engelram II van Ponthieu.

They got married in the year 1047, she was 22 years old.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. Adelheid II van Ponthieu  
2. Elisende de Ponthieu  1050-???? 

The couple were divorced in 1050.Source 4

Oorzaak: bloedverwantschap

(2) She is married to Lambrecht II van Boulogne.

They got married in the year 1053, she was 28 years old.Source 2

Child(ren):

1. Judith van Boulogne (von Lens)  1054-1086 

(3) She is married to Odo II van Champagne.

They got married in the year 1060, she was 35 years old.Source 2

Child(ren):

1. Steven van Aumale  1065-1127

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