Azalaïs de Provence

Also known as Adélaïde and Alix.

Countess of Provence

Countess of Forcalquier

Countess of Avignon

Events

Date of Birth: about 1054.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 196).

Date of Death: 1038.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 196).

Relationships

Father: Guillaume VI Bertrand, count.

This relationship is given by Manteyer (p. 310, p. 312), by Pécout (p. 61), by Salazar y Acha (p. 196), and by Poly (p. 34).

Mother: Azalaïs.

This relationship is given by Manteyer (p. 310), by Salazar y Acha (p. 196), and by Poly (p. 34). Salazar y Acha calls her Adelaida de Righino de Canavese.

Spouse: Ermengol IV “el de Gerb”, count of Urgell.

This relationship is given by Monfar y Sors (p. 356), by Manteyer (p. 312, p. 318), by Pécout (p. 61), by Salazar y Acha (p. 196), and by Poly (p. 34).

Children:

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

Adelaida (born 1081).

Guillaume I (born 1082 - died 1129), count of Provence, married Garsende d’Albon.

Sancha (born about 1085), married Ripert Rambaud.

References

Manteyer, Georges de. La Provence du premier au douzième siècle (Paris: 1908).

Monfar y Sors, Diego. Historia de los Condes de Urgel. Tomo I (Barcelona 1853).

Pécout, Thierry. L’invention de la Provence: Raymond Bérenger V (1209-1235) (Perrin, 2004).

Poly, Jean-Pierre. La Provence et la société féodale 879-1166 (Paris:1976).

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).

Varano, Mariacristina . “Espace religieux et espace politique en pays provençal au Moyen Âge (IXeXIIIe siècles). L’exemple de Forcalquier et de sa région”. Archéologie et Préhistoire. Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I, 2011 (thesis).