Adélaïde de Bourgogne

Events

Date of Birth: about 931.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The estimated date is given by Schlesinger and by Zielinski.

Date of Death: 17 December 999.

Place of Death: Kloster Selz (Elsaß).

The date is given by Baldwin and by Althoff (1984, p. 373). The place is given by Schlesinger and by Zielinski. Schlesinger gives the date as 16 December and Zielinski gives 16/17 December.

Place of Burial: Kloster Selz.

The place is given by Glocker (pp. 96-97) and by Zielinski.

Relationships

Father: Rudolf II, king of Upper Burgundy.

This relationship is given by Schlesinger, by Zielinski, by Glocker (p. 80), by Bouchard (p. 116), and by Baldwin.

Mother: Bertha von Schwaben.

This relationship is given by Schlesinger, by Bühler (p. 213), by Bouchard (p. 116), and by Glocker (p. 80).

Spouse: Lotario II, king of Italy. Married 947.

This relationship is given by Althoff, by Marrocchi, by Zielinski, by Glocker (pp. 81-84), and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Otto I “the Great”, Holy Roman Emperor. Married 951.

This relationship is given by Althoff (NDB), by Zielinski, by Glocker (pp. 85-88), and by Baldwin.

Children (by Lotario):

(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.)

Emma (about 949 - 2 November, after 988) married Lothaire, king of the West Franks.

Children (by Otto):

Heinrich (died 7 April, about 954).

Bruno (died 8 September 957).

Otto II (end 955 - 7 December 983), Holy Roman Emperor, married Theofanu.

Mathilde (perhaps 956 - 7 February 999), abbess of Quedlinburg.

References

Althoff, Gerd. Adels- und Königsfamilien im Spiegel ihrer Memorialüberlieferung: Studieren zum Totengedenken der Billunger und Ottonen. (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1984).

Althoff, Gerd. “Otto I. der Große”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 19 (1998), S. 656-660 [Onlinefassung].

Baldwin, Stewart. “Otto I the Great” in The Henry Project. (2011)

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

Bühler, Heinz. “Richinza von Spietzenberg und ihr Verwandtenkreis” in Adel, Klöster und Burgherren im Alten Herzogtum Schwaben: gesammelte Aufsätze (Weissenhorn: Konrad, 1996).

Cawley, Charles. “ADELAIS of Burgundy” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

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).

MacLean, Simon. Ottonian Queenship. (Oxford University Press, 2017). This book contains an extensive discussion of Adelheid's influence (pp. 95-127).

Marrocchi, Mario. “Lotario II, re d’Italia” in Dizionario degli Italiani Volume 66 (2007).

Schlesinger, Walter. “Adelheid”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 1 (1953), S. 57-58 [Onlinefassung].

Weinfurter, Stefan. "Kaiserin Adelheid und das ottonische Kaisertum" in Frühmittelalterliche Studien Vol 33, pp. 1-19. (1999).

Zielinski, H. "Adelheid, Kaiserin" in Lexikon des Mittelalters Band 1 (Stuttgart 1980).