Princess Adele (Alix) De FRANCE

1009 - 1097  (87 years)

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

  
  

  Father	Robert II "The Pious", King Of France,   b. 27 Mar 972, Orl?ans, Loiret, France ,   d. 20 Jul 1031, Melun Castle, Melun, Aquitaine, France  (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Constance DE ARLES,   b. Abt 973, Tolouse, Arles, France ,   d. 25 Jul 1032, Melun, Seine-Et-Marne, France  (Age ~ 59 years)
  Alt. Marriage	1000	Melun, Seine-et-Marne, ?le-de-France, France   [2]
  Married	1001
  	NOTE MARRIED
  Family ID	F4185	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Ad?le 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).Ad?le 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] Ad?le'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.[4Ad?le 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 Flandri? Bertiniana names "filiam Rodberti regis Francorum Adelam" wife of "Balduinum Insulanum"[231]. The Genealogi? 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 Odgev? comitiss? 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

  [S1160] accessed 30 Dec 2022), entry for Adele (Alix) De FRANCE, person ID LDHQ-P5F. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] accessed 13 Dec 2022), entry for Robert II "The Pious", person ID LD9R-RB7. (Reliability: 3).