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Adelaide DE VERMANDOIS (950-to978)

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      Illustration of the tomb of Adele of Meaux with her effigy    
 
Name: Adelaide DE VERMANDOIS 1
Sex: Female
Father: Robert OF TROYES & MEAUX (920?-967)
Mother: Adelaide OF BURGUNDY (bef932- )

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth 0950
Death frm 0975 to 0978 (age 24-28)
Occupation Countess Consort of Anjou

Marriage

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      Fulk Nerra's castle keep at Loches.    
 
Spouse Geoffroy I "Greymantle" OF ANJOU ( -987)
Children Ermengarde OF ANJOU ( - )
Fulk III OF MAINE ( -1040)
Marriage 0979 (age 28-29)

Individual Note

Adele of Meaux (c. 950-c. 980) Also known as "Adele of Vermandois" was a daughter of Robert of Vermandois and Adelaide-Werra de Chalon.

 

She married twice, first to Lambert, Count of Chalon, and then to Geoffrey I of Anjou, and had children with each.

 

Children:

 

With Lambert of Chalon:

 

Hugh I of Autun, Bishop of Auxerre (-1039)

Mahaut of Autun, Count of Chalon (-1019)

Aelis of Chalon, who married Guido I of Macon

 

With Geoffrey I of Anjou:

 

Gottfried of Anjou (-987)

Fulk III of Anjou (972-1040)

Ermengarde of Anjou, who married Conan I of Rennes

Gerberga (b. 973), married Count William IV of Angoulême2

Sources

1Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 116, 118-20; 118, 121-20.
2"Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_of_Meaux.