See also
Husband: | Renaud I+ (972-1040) | |
Wife: | Adela +* CAPET (1003-1079) | |
Children: | William I + (1030-1100) | |
Henry of NEVERS (c. 1032-1067) | ||
Guy of NEVERS (1034-1067) | ||
Robert of NEVERS (1035-1098) | ||
Adelaide of NEVERS (c. 1037- ) | ||
Marriage | 25 Jan 1016 |
Name: | Renaud I+ | |
Sex: | Male | |
Father: | Landry IV + (970-1028) | |
Mother: | Mathilde + of BURGUNDY-COMTE (975-1005) | |
Birth | 0972 | |
Occupation | Count of Nevers | |
Title | frm 1000 to 1040 (age 27-68) | Count of Nevers |
Death | 29 May 1040 (age 67-68) | Sauvigny, Le Bougvinon, France |
Name: | Adela +* CAPET | |
Sex: | Female | |
Father: | Robert II +* (972-1031) | |
Mother: | Constance + * of ARLES (986-1034) | |
Birth | 1003 | France |
Occupation | Princess of France | |
Title | Princess of France | |
Death | 8 Jan 1079 (age 75-76) | Monastery de l'Ordrecle, St.Benoist,France |
Alternate Name | Advisa |
Name: | William I + | |
Sex: | Male | |
Spouse: | Ermengarde + of TONNERRE (1032-1083) | |
Birth | 1030 | Nevers, Nievre, France |
Occupation | Count of Nevers | |
Title | Count of Nevers | |
Death | 20 Jun 1100 (age 69-70) | Nevers, Nievre, France |
Name: | Henry of NEVERS | |
Sex: | Male | |
Birth | 1032 (est) | |
Death | 1067 (age 34-35) |
Name: | Guy of NEVERS | |
Sex: | Male | |
Birth | 1034 | Nevers, Nievre, France |
Death | 1067 (age 32-33) |
Name: | Robert of NEVERS | |
Sex: | Male | |
Spouse 1: | Avise of SABLE (1035-1067) | |
Spouse 2: | Berthe + of CRAON (1039-1109) | |
Birth | 1035 | Nevers, Nievre, France |
Occupation | Baron of Craon | |
Death | 1098 (age 62-63) | Kreuznach, Bad Kreuznach, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany |
Name: | Adelaide of NEVERS | |
Sex: | Female | |
Birth | 1037 (est) |
Adela Capet, Adèle of France or Adela of Flanders[1], known also as Adela the Holy or Adela of Messines; (1009 – 8 January 1079, Messines) was the second daughter of Robert II (the Pious), and Constance of Arles. As dowry to her future husband, she received from her father the title of Countess of Corbie.
She was a member of the House of Capet, the rulers of France. As the wife of Baldwin V, she was Countess of Flanders from 1036 to 1067.
She married first 1027 Richard III Duke of Normandy (997 † 1027). They never had children. As a widow, she remarried in 1028 in Paris to Baldwin V of Flanders (1012 † 1067). Their children were:
Baldwin VI of Flanders, (1030 † 1070)
Matilda of Flanders (1032 † 1083). In 1053 she married William Duke of Normandy, the future king of England
Robert I of Flanders, (1033-1093)
Henry of Flanders (c. 1035)
Sir Richard of Flanders (c. 1050-1105)
[edit] Political influence
Adèle’s influence lay mainly in 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.
[edit] Battle of Cassel (1071)
When Adela's third son, Robert the Frisian, was to invade Flanders in 1071 to become the new count (at that time the count was Adela's grandson, Arnulf III), she asked Philip I to stop him. Philip sent troops in order to aid Arnulf, being among the forces sent by the king a contingent of ten Norman knights led by William FitzOsborn. Robert's forces attacked Arnulf's numerically superior army at Cassel before it could organize, and Arnulf himself was killed along with William FitzOsborn. The overwhelming triumph of Robert made Philip invest him with Flanders, making the peace. A year later, Philip married Robert's stepdaughter, Bertha of Holland, and in 1074, Philip restored the seigneurie of Corbie to the crown.
[edit] Church influence
Adèle had an especially great interest in Baldwin V’s church-reform politics and was behind her husband’s founding of several collegiate