Adela of Normandy

Events

Date of Birth: probably at the end of 1067 or the beginning of 1068.

Place of Birth: Normandy.

The date is given LoPrete (pp. 23-24). Huneycutt gives about 1067 and Werner gives about 1065.

Date of Death: 1137, perhaps on 8 March.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Huneycutt and by LoPrete (p. 416). Werner gives 8 March 1138 in Marcigny (Sâone-et-Loire).

Place of Burial: Marcigny.

The place is given by Huneycutt, who notes that a later tradition, based on a misidentification, purports that she was buried at Holy Trinity, Caen. The place is also given by LoPrete (p. 417).

Relationships

Father: William I “the Conqueror”, king of England.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:838), by Huneycutt, by LoPrete (pp. 22-24), and by Baldwin.

Mother: Matilda of Flanders.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:838), by Huneycutt, by LoPrete (pp. 22-24), and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Étienne, count of Blois. Married 1080.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:838), by Huneycutt, by LoPrete (pp. 34-60), and by Keats-Rohan (p. 223).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Guillaume, married Agnès de Sully.

Thibaut IV (died 10 January 1152), count of Blois, married Mathilde von Sponheim.

Eudes.

Mathilde (died 25 November 1120) married Richard d’Avranches, earl of Chester.

Éléonore married Raoul (I) “le Valiant”, count of Vermandois.

Stephen (died 25 October 1154), king of England, married Mathilde, countess of Boulogne.

Henry (died 8 August 1171), bishop of Winchester.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Baldwin, Stewart. “William 'the Conqueror' (Guillaume 'le Conquérant')"” in The Henry Project.

Huneycutt, Lois L. “Adela, countess of Blois (c. 1067-1137), in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Lane, Henry Murray. The Royal Daughters of England. (1910).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

LoPrete, Kimberly A. Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c. 1067 - 1137) (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007).

Werner, K.F. "Adela von England" in Lexikon des Mittelalters Band 1 (Stuttgart 1980).