Adelaide of Susa

Events

Date of Birth: about 1020.

Place of Birth: Turin.

Wolf gives a date of about 1015 - 1018.

Date of Death: 19 December 1091.

(supposed) Place of Death: Canischio in Canavese.

The date is given by Creber. Previté-Orton (pp. 250-251) states that she died in December 1091, but that the day is doubtful. He also states that the place may be Canischio “if we give credence to an otherwise absurd legend.” Sergi (Lexikon) gives 19 December, 1091, but does not give the place.

Relationships

Father: Olderic Manfred, margrave of Susa and of Turin.

This relationship is given by Cognasso, by Wolf, by Creber, and by Sergi.

Mother: Berta degli Obertenghi.

This relationship is given Cognasso, by Creber, and by Wolf.

Spouse: Hermann IV, duke of Swabia. Married 1035.

This relationship is given by Previté-Orton (pp. 189 - 213), by Cognasso, by Creber, and by Sergi.

Spouse: Henry, margrave of Montferrat. Married 29 January 1042.

This relationship is given by Previté-Orton (pp. 189 - 213), by Cognasso, by Creber, and by Sergi.

Spouse: Otto, count of Maurienne. Married about 1046.

This relationship is given by Guichenon (1:197), by Cognasso, by Creber, and by Sergi.

Children (by Otto):

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

Peter I (about 1048 - 9 August 1078), count of Savoy, marquis of Susa, married Agnes of Aquitaine.

Amadeus II (about 1049 - 26 January 1080), count of Savoy, marquis of Susa, married Jeanne.

Bertha (21 September 1051 - 27 December 1087) married Henry IV, king of Germany, emperor.

Adelaide (about 1052 - early 1079) married Rudolf von Rheinfelden, duke of Swabia in about 1062.

Otto.

References

Cognasso, Francesco. “Adelaide” Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 1 (1960).

Creber, Alison Madeleine. Adelaide of Turin (c. 1014/24-1091): Imperial Politics and Regional Power in Eleventh-Century Northern Italy (PhD thesis, King’s College London; 2017).

Dufour, Jean. "Louis VI, roi de France (1108-1137), à la lumière des actes royaux et des source narratives" in Comples rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 134e année, N.2, 1990. pp. 456-482.

Guichenon, Samuel. Histoire généalogique de la royale maison de Savoie Tome 1 (Turin, 1778).

Previté-Orton, Charles William. The Early History of the House of Savoy (1000 - 1233). (Cambridge University Press: 1912).

Sergi, G. "Adelheid, Grafin von Turin, Tochter des Markgrafen von Turin, Olderich Manfred" in Lexikon des Mittelalters Band 1 (Stuttgart 1980).

Sergi, Giuseppe. “Oddone de Moriana-Savoia” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 79 (2013).

Wolf, Armin. Ahnen deutscher Könige und Königinnen: Alternativen zu dem Werk von Eduard Hlawitschka. 2010. Selbstverlag des Herold, Berlin.