Adèle de Troyes

Also known as Adelais de Vermandois and Adela de Meaux.

Events

Date of Birth: about 950.

The estimate is given by Settipani (p. 232).

Place of Birth:. unknown.

Date of Death: after 6 March 974.

The date is given by Baldwin. Settipani (p. 232) gives in 974, after 6 March.

Relationships

Father: Robert, count of Meaux and of Troyes.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:49, 6:7), by Settipani (p. 232), by Bouchard (p. 19), and by Baldwin.

Mother: Adélaïde dite Werra, daughter of Giselbert, count of Chalon and of Troyes, duke of Burgundy.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:49, 6:7), by Settipani (p. 232), and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Geoffroy I “Grisegonelle”, count of Anjou.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (6:7), by Settipani (p. 232), by Bouchard (p. 19), and by Baldwin.

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.)

Foulques III “Nerra” (died 1040), count of Anjou, married (1) Elizabeth de Vendôme; married (2) Hildegarde de Lorraine.

Geoffroy.

Ermengarde married Conan I de Rennes.

Gerberge married Guillaume IV, count of Angoulême.

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. “Adèle de Troyes” in The Henry Project.

Bouchard, Constance Brittain. “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).

Settipani, Christian (with Patrick Van Kerrebrouck). La préhistoire des Capétiens 481-987. Première Partie (Volume 1 of Nouvelle Histoire Généalogique de l’Auguste Maison de France, 1993).