Wheeler/Ethridge/Zeller/Dunkin Family Tree » Adelaide of Aquitaine (± 945-1004)

Personal data Adelaide of Aquitaine 


Household of Adelaide of Aquitaine

She is married to Hugh Capet of France.

They got married in the year 969.


Child(ren):

  1. Hedwige Capet  ± 961-1013 
  3. Guerinfrey of Aumale  ± 982-1061 
  4. Gisèle of France  ± 965-1002 


Notes about Adelaide of Aquitaine

Adelaide was the daughter of William III, Duke of Aquitaine and Adele of Normandy, daughter of Rollo of Normandy. Her father used her as security for a truce with Hugh Capet, whom she married in 969.[2]
In 987, after the death of Louis V, the last Carolingian king of France, Hugh was elected the new king with Adelaide as queen. The couple were proclaimed as the new monarchs at Senlis and blessed at Noyon. As such, they had become the founders of the Capetian dynasty of France.[1] Apparently, Hugh trusted in Adelaide's judgement and allowed her to take part in government. He asked her to negotiate on his behalf with the regent of the Holy Roman Empire, Empress Theophanu, committing himself beforehand to any agreement they reached.[1]
Adelaide's son, Robert, came into conflict in the late 990s with Gerbert, the Archbishop of Reims. Gerbert took refuge with Otto III, Theophanu's son and the new Holy Roman Emperor, and Adelaide attempted to recall the former to Reims, but Gerbert resisted this command in a letter dated to the spring of 997.[3]
Issue[edit]
Adelaide and Hugh had at least three children that lived to adulthood:
•Hedwig, Countess of Mons (or Hadevide, or Avoise) (c. 969–after 1013), wife of Reginar IV, Count of Mons
•Robert II (972–1031), the future king of France. Crowned co-king in 987, in order to consolidate the new dynasty.
•Gisèle, Countess of Ponthieu (c. 970–1002), wife of Hugh I, Count of Ponthieu

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Adelaide of Aquitaine

Ebles de Poitiers of Aquitaine
876-935
Emilienne
± 879-935
Rollo Rognvaldsson
± 864-931
Poppa Senlis
± 889-930

Adelaide of Aquitaine
± 945-1004

969

Hugh Capet of France
939-996

Hedwige Capet
± 961-1013
Robert II Capet of France
972-1031
Guerinfrey of Aumale
± 982-1061
Gisèle of France
± 965-1002

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