Events
Date of Birth: unknown, probably about 1010 - 1015.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The range of states is given by Stewart. Glocker (pp. 328-329) gives about 1014.
Date of Death: 8 January 1079.
Place of Death: Messines.
The date and place are given by Stewart. Verhulst and Glocker (pp. 328-329) also give 8 January 1079.
Place of Burial: Messines abbey.
The place is given by pére Anselme (2:716), by Verhulst, and by Stewart.
Relationships
Father: Robert II le Pieux (died 1031), king of France.
This relationship is given by pére Anselme (2:716), by Verhulst, by Lewis (p. 24), by Glocker (pp. 328-329), and by Stewart.
Mother: Constance d’Arles (died 1034).
This relationship is given by pére Anselme (2:716), by Lewis (p. 24), and by Stewart.
Spouse: Baldwin V of Flanders. Married 1029 in Paris.
This relationship is given by pére Anselme (2:716), by Verhulst, by Lewis (p. 24), by Glocker (pp. 328-329), and by Stewart.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Baldwin.)
Baldwin VI (died 17 July 1070), marquis of Flanders, count of Hainaut, married Richilde.
Matilda (died 2 November 1083) married William “the Conqueror”, duke of Normandy, king of England.
Robert “the Frisian” (died 12 or 13 October 1093) married Gertrude, daughter of Bernhard II, duke in Saxony.
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).
Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).
Stewart, Peter. “Adèle of France” in The Henry Project.
Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).
Verhulst, A. "Adela von Flandern" in Lexikon des Mittelalters Band 1 (Stuttgart 1980).