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Princess Adele (Alix) De FRANCE

Princess Adele (Alix) De FRANCE

Female 1009 - 1097  (87 years)

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  • Name Adele (Alix) De FRANCE 
    Prefix Princess 
    Born 3 May 1009  Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Christened 21 May 1009  Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    FamilySearch ID LDHQ-P5F 
    _UID B9E906A6D31C4BEFB367E3535B84079C4962 
    Died 8 Jan 1097  Messines, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I25437  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 30 Dec 2022 

    Father Robert II "The Pious", King Of France,   b. 27 Mar 972, Orléans, Loiret, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Jul 1031, Melun Castle, Melun, Aquitaine, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years) 
    Mother Constance DE ARLES,   b. Abt 973, Tolouse, Arles, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Jul 1032, Melun, Seine-Et-Marne, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 59 years) 
    Alt. Marriage 1000  Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Married 1001 
    • NOTE MARRIED
    Family ID F4185  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Richard III Duke Of NORMANDY,   b. Abt 997, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Aug 1028  (Age ~ 31 years) 
    Married Jan 1026  Paris, France (Contract-Not Married) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • NOTE MARRIED
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F11498  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Count Baldwin (Baudouin) V FLANDERS,   b. 19 Aug 1012, Bihorel, Seine-Maritime, Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Sep 1067, Lille, Nord, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Married 1028  Paris, Seine, Ile-DE-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Baldwin (Baudouin) DE FLANDERS,   b. 1030,   d. 17 Jul 1070  (Age 40 years)
     2. Countess Matilda LE CHAUVRE, Queen Of England,   b. 24 Nov 1031, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Nov 1083, Caen, Calvados, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years)
     3. Oda DE FLANDRE,   b. 1035, Gent, Flandre-Orientale, Belgique Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1082  (Age 47 years)
     4. Robert DE FLANDERS,   b. 1035,   d. 13 Oct 1093  (Age 58 years)
     5. Constance VAN IEPER VAN LOON,   b. Abt 1036, Ieper, Flandre occidentale, Belgique Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1094, Bailleul, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 58 years)
     6. Adeilheid DE FLANDRE,   b. Abt 1047,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 30 Dec 2022 
    Family ID F11499  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Adèle of France[a] known also as Adela the Holy or Adela of Messines; (1009 – 8 January 1079, Messines), she was the Countess 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.[1] In January 1027 she married Richard III, Duke of Normandy.[2] The marriage was short-lived for on 6 August of that same year Richard III suddenly died.[2] Adela then married Baldwin V, Count of Flanders in 1028.[3]

      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, Adela's husband, so that from 1060 to 1067, they were Regents of France.[4Adèle 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.[5]


      ADELA de France, daughter of ROBERT II King of France & his third wife Constance d'Arles (1009-Messines 8 Jan 1079, bur Messines, Benedictine monastery). The Genealogica Comitum Flandriæ Bertiniana names "filiam Rodberti regis Francorum Adelam" wife of "Balduinum Insulanum"[231]. The Genealogiæ Scriptoris Fusniacensis names "Alam comitissam Flandrensem" the daughter of King Robert[232]. Corbie was her dowry[233]. The Liber traditionum of Gant Saint-Pierre commemorates the donations of "Baldwinus junior marchysus filius Baldwini marchysi et Odgevæ comitissæ cum conjuge sua Adala", undated[234]. She founded the Benedictine monastery at Messines near Ypres. The necrology of the abbey of Saint-Denis records the death "VI Id Jan" of "Adelaidis comitissa"[235].
      Count Baudouin V & his wife had three children

  • Sources 
    1. [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 30 Dec 2022), entry for Adele (Alix) De FRANCE, person ID LDHQ-P5F. (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Dec 2022), entry for Robert II "The Pious", person ID LD9R-RB7. (Reliability: 3).