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Family of Renaud I+ and Adela +* CAPET

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

Husband: Renaud I+

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

Wife: Adela +* CAPET

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

Child 1: William I +

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Spouse: Ermengarde + of TONNERRE

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

Child 2: Henry of NEVERS

Name: Henry of NEVERS
Sex: Male
Birth 1032 (est)
Death 1067 (age 34-35)

Child 3: Guy of NEVERS

Name: Guy of NEVERS
Sex: Male
Birth 1034 Nevers, Nievre, France
Death 1067 (age 32-33)

Child 4: Robert of NEVERS

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Robert of NEVERS

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

Child 5: Adelaide of NEVERS

Name: Adelaide of NEVERS
Sex: Female
Birth 1037 (est)

Note on Wife: Adela +* CAPET

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