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Adelaide DE VERMANDOIS (950-to978)
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
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
1 | Weis, 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. |