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• Zij is geboren in het jaar 931 in Orbe.
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  De heilige Adelheid (Orbe, 931 - Seltz, 16 december 999) was een dochter van koning Rudolf II van Opper-Bourgondië en van Bertha van Zwaben.
  
  Na het overlijden van haar vader, huwde haar moeder met Hugo, de koning van Lombardije en werd Adelheid verloofd met zijn zoon Lotharius. Adelheid huwde in 947 met koning Lotharius, maar deze werd in 950 vergiftigd (vermoedelijk) door toedoen van Berengarius, die zich als koning opwierp en Adelheid wilde uithuwelijken aan zijn zoon Adelbert. Toen Adelheid dat weigerde werd ze gevangengezet in Como, maar kon in een bootje over het meer ontsnappen en vluchtte naar Canossa. Daar kreeg ze onderdak bij een lokale edelman Adalbert-Atto die prompt werd belegerd door Berengarius. Vanuit deze benarde positie stuurde Adelheid noodkreten om hulp naar Duitsland.
  
  Nadat keizer Otto I in 951 Noord-Italië had bezet, huwde hij Adelheid. Adelheid kreeg een bescheiden maar actieve rol in het bestuur. Het paar werd in 962 door paus Johannes XII in Rome tot keizer en keizerin gekroond. Na het overlijden van haar man in 973, werd zij regente voor hun zoon Otto II maar kreeg na verloop van tijd conflicten met Otto en haar schoondochter Theophanu. Zij moest zich in 978 terugtrekken in Bourgondië, waar zij talrijke kloosters stichtte. Haar broer Koenraad van Bourgondië wist een verzoening met Otto en Theophanu te bereiken. Na het overlijden van Otto II in 983, werd zij mederegente voor diens zoon, de latere Otto III, en onderkoningin van Italië. Door haar terugkerende conflict met keizerin Theophanu moest ze de wijk nemen naar Lombardije. Toen ook Theophanu overleed (in 991), werd Adelheid wederom regente. In 995 trok zij zich ten slotte terug in het door haar gestichte klooster van Seltz.
  
  Adelheid sprak vier talen en was zeer belezen. Ze werd alom geroemd om haar schoonheid, intelligentie, zedigheid en ze was een begaafd harpiste. Ze gaf steun aan de hervormingen van Cluny, die door Otto II en Theophanu als staatsgevaarlijk werden beschouwd. In 999 werd haar vriend, de aartsbisschop van Ravenna, Gerbert van Aurillac, die ook Otto III had opgevoed, tot paus gekozen onder de naam Sylvester II. Ze was overtuigd van de wederkomst van Christus in het jaar 1000 maar heeft dat net niet meer meegemaakt.
  
  Adelheid werd in 1097 heilig verklaard door paus Urbanus II. Haar feestdag is op 16 december. Adelheid is de beschermheilige van de slachtoffers van mishandelingen, bruiden, keizerinnen en prinsessen, gevangenen, weduwen, ouders van grote gezinnen, stiefouders, bannelingen en bij tweede huwelijken. Ze wordt in de regel met een boot afgebeeld. Haar graf was een belangrijk pelgrimsoord maar werd verwoest tijdens de reformatie. Volgens sommige bronnen ligt het onder de dorpskerk van Selz.

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  Saint Adelaide of Italy (931/932 – 16 December 999), also called Adelaide of Burgundy, was the second wife of Otto the Great, Holy Roman Emperor. Empress Adelaide was perhaps the most prominent European woman of the 10th century; she was regent of the Holy Roman Empire as the guardian of her grandson in 991-995.
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  Life
  
  Born in Orbe, today in Switzerland, she was the daughter of Rudolf II of Burgundy[1] and Bertha of Swabia. Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen,[2] was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy;[1] the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair. They had a daughter, Emma of Italy.
  Marriage to Otto I
  Adelaide and her second spouse Otto I the Great
  
  The Calendar of Saints states that her first husband was poisoned by the holder of real power, his successor, Berengar of Ivrea, who attempted to cement his political power by forcing her to marry his son, Adalbert; when she refused and fled, she was tracked down and imprisoned for four months at Como.
  
  From it she was rescued by a priest named Martin, who dug a subterraneous passage, by which she escaped, and remained concealed in the woods, her rescuer supporting her, meantime, by the fish he caught in the lake. Soon, however, the Duke of Canossa, Alberto Uzzo, who had been advised of the rescue, arrived and carried her off to his castle,[3] where she was besieged by Berengar. She managed to send an emissary to throw herself on the mercy of Otto the Great. His brothers were equally willing to save the dowager queen, but Otto got an army into the field: they subsequently met at the old Lombard capital of Pavia and were married in 951;[1] he was crowned emperor in Rome, 2 February 962 by Pope John XII, and, most unusually, she was crowned empress at the same ceremony.[1] Among their children, four lived to maturity: Henry, born in 952; Bruno, born 953; Matilda, the first Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, born about 954; and Otto II, later Holy Roman Emperor, born 955.
  
  In Germany, the crushing of a revolt in 953 by Liudolf, Otto's son by his first marriage, cemented the position of Adelaide, who retained all her dower lands. She accompanied Otto in 966 on his third expedition to Italy, where she remained with him for six years.
  Court of Otto III
  
  When her husband Otto I died in 973 he was succeeded by their son Otto II, and Adelaide for some years exercised a powerful influence at court. Later, however, her daughter-in-law, the Byzantine princess Theophano, turned her husband Otto II against his mother, and she was driven from court in 978; she lived partly in Italy, and partly with her brother Conrad, king of Burgundy, by whose mediation she was ultimately reconciled to her son; in 983 Otto appointed her as his viceroy in Italy. However, Otto died the same year, and although both mother and grandmother were appointed as co-regents for the child-king, Otto III, Theophano forced Adelaide to abdicate and exiled her. When Theophano died in 991, Adelaide was restored to the regency of her grandson.[2] She was assisted by Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz. In 995 Otto III came of age, and Adelaide was free to devote herself exclusively to works of charity, notably the foundation or restoration of religious houses.
  Retirement
  
  Adelaide had long entertained close relations with Cluny, then the center of the movement for ecclesiastical reform, and in particular with its abbots Majolus and Odilo. She retired to a nunnery she had founded in c. 991 at Selz in Alsace.[4] Though she never became a nun, she spent the rest of her days there in prayer. On her way to Burgundy to support her nephew Rudolf III against a rebellion, she died at Selz Abbey on December 16, 999, days short of the millennium she thought would bring the Second Coming of Christ. She had constantly devoted herself to the service of the church and peace, and to the empire as guardian of both; she also interested herself in the conversion of the Slavs. She was thus a principal agent—almost an embodiment—of the work of the Catholic Church during the Early Middle Ages in the construction of the religion-culture of western Europe.[5] A part of her relics are preserved in a shrine in Hanover. Her feast day, December 16, is still kept in many German dioceses.
  Issue
  
  In 947, Adelaide was married to King Lothair II of Italy. The union produced one child:
  
  Emma of Italy - born 948, queen of France and wife of Lothair of France
  
  In 951, Adelaide was married to King Otto I, the future Holy Roman Emperor. The union produced five children:
  
  Henry - born 952
  Bruno - born 953
  Matilda - born 954, Abbess of Quedlinburg
  Otto II - born 955, Holy Roman Emperor
  
  Legacy
  
  Adelaïde is the heroine of Gioacchino Rossini's 1817 opera, Adelaide di Borgogna.
  
  Adelaide is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented as one of the 999 names on the Heritage Floor

• Zij is overleden op 16 december 999 in Seltz, zij was toen 68 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Rudolph II van Bourgondië en Bertha van Zwaben
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 5 november 2012.

Gezin van Adelheid van Bourgondie

(1) Zij is getrouwd met Lotharius II van Italie.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 947, zij was toen 16 jaar oud.Bron 3

Kind(eren):

1. Emma van Italie  948-1005 

(2) Zij is getrouwd met Otto I "de Grote" van Saksen-Ludolf.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 951, zij was toen 20 jaar oud.Bron 1

Kind(eren):

1. Hendrik van Saksen-Ludolf  952-954
2. Bruno van Saksen-Ludolf  953-957
3. Mathilda van Quedlinburg  954-999
4. Otto II "de Rode" van Saksen-Ludolf  955-983 

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