Adelaide (Vermandois) Flandre (abt. 917 - 960)

Born about 0917 in Vermandois, France

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 10 Oct 0960 at about age 43 in Brugge, Flanders

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Biography

Adele was both a Carolingian as well as a Robertian Frankish noblewoman who was the Countess of Flanders (934–960). ^[1]

Name

• Adele^[2]
• Adèle ^[3]

Birth

Since birth order and birth years of the children are unknown, estimate her as the second child, born two years after Eudes, therefore 917.

Cawley estimates a birth year of 910. This reflects a reading of a 907 document which leads him to believe that Adele's mother was already married in 907. ^[4]

Adele, born c. 910–915[1] was a daughter of Herbert II of Vermandois and his wife, Adele, daughter of Robert I of France.[2] She died in 960 in Bruges. ^[1]

Marriage

In 934 Adèle married Arnulf I, count of Flanders. ^[3]

In 934 Adele married Count Arnulf I of Flanders (c. 890 – 965). Her marriage to Arnoul was arranged to seal the alliance made in 934 between her father and her future husband.^[1]

There is no record of additional marriages for Adele.

Death and Burial

She died in 960. ^[3] Adele is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Gand in Bruges, Flemish Region, Belgium.

Issue

Together Adele and Arnulf had the following children:^[1]

1. Hildegarde,[a] born c. 934, died 990; she married Dirk II, Count of Holland. It remains uncertain if Hildegarde was Arnulf's daughter by his first wife, whose name was not preserved, or by his second wife Adele. See: Heather J. Tanner, Families, Friends and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England, C.879-1160 (Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, 2004) p. 55 n. 143 ^[1]
2. Liutgard, born in 935, died in 962; married Wichmann IV, Count of Hamaland.^[1]
3. Egbert, died 953.^[1]
4. Baldwin III of Flanders.[3] (c. 940 – 962). Married Mathilde Billung of Saxony (c. 940 - 1008), daughter of Hermann Billung, and had issue, Arnulf II, Count of Flanders (c. 960 – 987), who succeeded as count after Arnulf I, skipping one generation.^[1]
5. Elftrude; married Siegfried, Count of Guînes.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} Wikipedia. Adele of Vermandois
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Kimball G Everingham, Editor. Salt Lake City, Utah: By the Author, 2013. Volume V, p. 485
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Stewart Baldwin. Heribert II, The Henry Project. First uploaded 23 May 2007, revised 2008, 2011. http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/prov/herib002.htm. Accessed May 24, 2017. jhd
4. ↑ Cawley, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, Medieval Lands Database. Adele of Vermandois. http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HOLLAND.htm#_Toc359915623.

See also:

• https://fasg.org/projects/henryproject/data/adele000.htm
• Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 1 (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 49
• The Annals of Flodoard of Reims, 916–966, eds. & trans. Steven Fanning: Bernard S. Bachrach (New York; Ontario, Can: University of Toronto Press, 2011), pp. 21 n. 77, 92
• Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 5
• Heather J. Tanner, Families, Friends and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England, C.879-1160 (Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, 2004) p. 55 n. 143