Brief lives of women who reigned or ruled in their own right or by marriage by providing their a) proprietary titles, b) parents/pedigree, c) patrimony and properties, d) persona or personality, e) powers exercised, f) patronages and g) progeny or posterity.
ADA VAN HOLLAND
ADALAIS D'AQUITAINE
ADELA DE CARLAT
Proprietary Titles: Viscountess of Carlat and of Lodeve
Parents/Pedigree: daughter and heiress of Gerbert, Viscount of Carlat and Nobilia
Progeny/Posterity: Married c1050 Berenger II of Millau (d.1097), Viscount of Gevaudan and of Millau, with whom she had 3 children.
ADELA OF ENGLAND (c1062-1137)
a.k.a. Adela of Normandy, Adela of Blois
[Bio1] [Bio2:104-107]
Power Exercised: Countess-Regent of Blois and Chartres, 1095-1098, 1101 when her husband, Etienne II of Blois, went on a crusade; Countess-Regent of Blois and Chartres, c1097-1109 for her son, Thibaut IV of Blois who was a minor when his father was killed in the crusade.
ADELA DE MACON
Attala or Tolana
Adeline of Ardres
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Ardres and of Collewide (Colvida). (See Christine of Marck, Lady of Ardres)
ADELAIDE D'AUXERRE
Countess of Auxerre
Adelaide de Burgundy (931-999)
Saint Adelaide of Italy
Power Exercised: Queen Regent of Italy, 950-951, after the death of her first husband Lothair of Italy
Empress Regent of the Holy Roman Empire, 983-995.
" . . . When her son Otto succeeded his father, her influence waned, however, and she retired to Burgundy. After regaining her son's good graces she became the ruler of Italy. When her son died in 983, the heir apparent was only three years old. Adelaide returned to Germany as regent. . . ." (Klapisch-Zuber: 235)
ADELAIDE DE BURGUNDY (941-?)
Adelaide of Chalon
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Troyes, Countess of Beaume, Countess of Chalon-sur-Saône
ADELAIDE DE BURGUNDY
Proprietary Title: Countess Palatine of Burgundy, 1248-1279
ADELAIDE DE CHALON (c928-c987)
Wera of Chalon
Proprietary Title: Countess of Chalon
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Gilbert of Burgundy and heiress of Chalon
ADELAIDE DE DONZY
Proprietary Title: Countess of Gien
Adelaide I de Normandy (c1026-1090)
Aelis of Normandy
Power Exercised: Regent Countess of Aumale, 1053-1063
ADELAIDE II DE BURGUNDY
Proprietary Title: Countess of Auxerre, 921-936
ADELAIDE II DE NORMANDY
Proprietary Title: Countess of Aumale, 1053-1087
ADELAIDE DE PROVENCE (d.1129)
Adelaide of Forcalquier
Proprietary Title: Lady of Forcalquier, 1065-1129; Countess of Provence.
ADELAIDE DI SAVONA (1074-1118)
Power Exercised: Countess Regent of Sicily, 1101-1112.
ADELAIDE DE SOISSONS (d.1105)
a.k.a. Adela de Soissons
[Gen1]
Proprietary Title: Countess of Soissons, 1057-1079.
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter, and eventual heiress, of Renaud I of Soissons (d.1057).
Partner/Progeny: Married Guillaume (d.1076), known as Busac, Count of Eu, with whom she had 3 sons and 1 daughter.
Notes: "...As for William Busac, he distinctly gained by his exile. A younger son in Normandy, he became the founder of a great house in a foreign land. He took shelter in France, where King Henry received him with all honour, and after a while promoted him to a splendid marriage and a great fief. He bestowed on the exile the hand of Adelaide, heiress of Reginald Count of Soissons, sprung from a younger branch of that house of Vermandois which traced its descent from the direct and legitimate male line of Charles the Great. But the direct line of the banished rebel did not flourish. Two sons succeeded Count William in the possession of Soissons, and the heritage then passed away into the hands of descendants in the female line." (Freeman, pp. 110-120)
Adelaide di Susa (1020-1091)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Turin, Lady of Auriate, Bredulo, Asti, Alba, Albenga and Ventimiglia, 1034-91. (See Society for the Diffusion: 330)
Adelaide de Vermandois (c1062-1122)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Vermandois and Valois, 1085-1101; Countess of Amiens, 1118
Notes: " . . . The woman in question was Adelaide, daughter and heiress of Herbert IV, count of Vermandois (d.1086) and wife of King Philip I's younger brother, Hugh 'the Great,' count of Chaumont-en-Vexin. The most likely reason for her visit to Normandy and sojourn at Bec is suggested by the fact that in 1096 Isabel of Vermandois, daughter of Hugh the Great and Countess Adelaide, married the lord of nearby Brionne, Robert of Meulan. The marriage represented a dazzling triumph for the Beaumont family, ensuring that Robert of Meulan's children would be direct descendants of the Capetian royal house, and more distantly, Charlemagne. . . ." (Vaughn: 144)
References.
Freeman, Edward (1869). The History of the Norman Conquest of England, Its Causes and Its Results (Vol. III). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
No comments:
Post a Comment