Adeliza of Louvain

Events

Date of Birth: about 1103.

Place of Birth: unknown.

This estimated date is given by Huneycutt (ODNB).

Date of Death: 24 March 1151.

The date is given by Huneycutt (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Godfrey (died 1139), count of Lower Lorraine and duke of Brabant.

This relationship is given by Huneycutt (ODNB), by Wertheimer (p. 101), and by the Complete Peerage (1:235).

Mother: Ida de Chiny.

This relationship is given by Weller.

Spouse: Henry I, king of England. Married 29 January 1121.

This relationship is given by Hollister (ODNB), by Wertheimer (p. 101), by Weller (p. 464), and by Huneycutt (ODNB).

Spouse: William d’Aubigny (died 1176), earl of Arundel. Married in about 1138.

This relationship is given by White (ODNB), by Huneycutt (ODNB), by Wertheimer (p. 110), and by the Complete Peerage (1:235).

Children (by William):

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

William d’Aubigny (died 24 December 1193) married Matilda de Saint-Hilaire.

Godefroi.

Alice (died 11 September, about 1188) married (1) John, count of Eu; married (2) Alvred de Saint-Martin.

Olivia.

two other sons.

possibly other daughters.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Adelisa de Louvain” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Hollister, C. Warren. “Henry I (1068/9 - 1135)”, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Huneycutt, Lois L. “Adeliza (c. 1103-1151)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Strickland, Agnes. Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest (Philadelphia, 1848) Volume 1, pp. 119-141.

Weller, Tobias. Die Heiratspolitik des deutschen Hochadels im 12. Jahrhundert. (2004: Böhlau Verlag).

Wertheimer, Laura. "Adeliza of Louvain and Anglo-Norman Queenship" in The Haskins Society Journal: Studies in Medieval History Volume 7 (1995) pp. 101-116.

White, Graeme. “Aubigny, William d’, first earl of Arundel (d.1176)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).