Adèle Capet, hertuginne av Flandern

Notater:

Fransk prinsesse. Som medgift til første ekteskap med Richard III av Normandie, ble hun utnevnt av faren til grevinne av Corbie (del av Nord-Frankrike).

Adela Capet, Adèle of France or Adela of Flanders[1], known also as Adela the Holy or Adela of Messines; (1009 – 8 January 1079, Messines) was the second daughter of Robert II (the Pious), and Constance of Arles. As dowry to her future husband, she received from her father the title of Countess of Corbie.


Her family
She was a member of the House of Capet, the rulers of France. As the wife of Baldwin V, she was Countess of Flanders from 1036 to 1067.

She married first 1027 Richard III Duke of Normandy (997 † 1027). They never had children. As a widow, she remarried in 1028 in Paris to Baldwin V of Flanders (1012 † 1067). Their children were:

Baldwin VI of Flanders, (1030 † 1070)
Matilda of Flanders (1032 † 1083). In 1053 she married William Duke of Normandy, the future king of England
Robert I of Flanders, (1033-1093)
Henry of Flanders (c. 1035)
Sir Richard of Flanders (c. 1050-1105)

[edit] Political influence
Adèle’s influence lay mainly in her family connections. On the death of her brother, Henry I of France, the guardianship of his seven-year-old son Philip I fell jointly on his widow, Ann of Kiev, and on his brother-in-law, Adela's husband, so that from 1060 to 1067, they were Regents of France.


Battle of Cassel (1071)
When Adela's third son, Robert the Frisian, was to invade Flanders in 1071 to become the new count (at that time the count was Adela's grandson, Arnulf III), she asked Phillip I to stop him. Phillip sent troops in order to aid Arnulf, being among the forces sent by the king a contingent of ten Norman knights led by William FitzOsborn. Robert's forces attacked Arnulf's numerically superior army at Cassel before it could organize, and Arnulf himself was killed along with William FitzOsborn. The overwhelming triumph of Robert made Phillip invest him with Flanders, making the peace. A year later, Phillip married Robert's stepdaughter, Bertha of Holland, and in 1074, Phillip restored the seigneurie of Corbie to the crown.

Church influence
Adèle had an especially great interest in Baldwin V’s church-reform politics and was behind her husband’s founding of several collegiate churches. Directly or indirectly, she was responsible for establishing the Colleges of Aire (1049), Lille (1050) and Harelbeke (1064) as well as the abbeys of Messines (1057) and Ename (1063). After Baldwin’s death in 1067, she went to Rome, took the nun’s veil from the hands of Pope Alexander II and retreated to the Benedictine convent of Messines, near Ypres. There she died, being buried at the same monastery. Her commemoration day is 8 September.

Adèle giftet seg med Boudewijn V van Rijsel, greve av Flandern 1028, Paris. Boudewijn (sønn av Boudewijn IV van Vlaanderen, greve av Flandern og Ogiva van Luxemburg, grevinne av Flandern) ble født 1013 , Arras; døde 01 Sep 1067. [Gruppeskjema] [Familiediagram]

Notater:

Greve av Flandern.

Robert I of Flanders (1029/1032 – 13 October 1093 in Kassel), known as Robert the Frisian, was count of Flanders from 1071 to 1092.

He was the younger son of Baldwin V of Flanders and Adèle, a daughter of King Robert II of France.

Robert was originally intended to secure the northern borders of Flanders by his marriage to Gertrude of Saxony, Dowager Countess of Holland, but after his brother's death in 1070 he displaced his nephews and became count of Flanders.


Family
By Gertrude of Saxony he had five children:

Robert II
Adela (d. 1115), who first married king Canute (Knud) IV of Denmark, and was the mother of Charles the Good, later count of Flanders. She then married Roger Borsa, duke of Apulia.
Gertrude, who married 1) Henry III, Count of Louvain and had 4 children.[1] 2) Thierry II, Duke of Lorraine, and was the mother of Thierry of Alsace, also later count of Flanders
Philip of Loo, whose illegitimate son William of Ypres was also a claimant to the county of Flanders
Ogiva, abbess of Messines

Count of Flanders
Robert's nephew Arnulf III (son of Baldwin VI of Flanders) succeeded his father in 1070 and was supported by his mother Richilde, Countess of Mons and Hainaut. However, Robert challenged Arnulf's succession to the throne of Flanders and began rallying support mainly in northern Flanders (where the bulk of Arnulf's forces were located). Arnulf's ranks contained individuals such as Count Eustace II of Boulogne, Count Eustace III of Boulogne, and Godfrey of Bouillon.

Moreover, Arnulf was supported by King Philip I of France since Philip's aunt, Adela, married Baldwin V of Flanders. A contingent of ten Norman knights led by William FitzOsborn were among the forces sent by Philip to aid Arnulf. Robert's forces attacked Arnulf's numerically superior army at Cassel before it could organize. Arnulf himself was killed along with William FitzOsborn while Richilde was captured by Robert's forces. However, Robert himself was captured by Eustace II. Ultimately, Richilde was exchanged for Robert's freedom.[1] As a result of the battle Robert became count of Flanders.
(Kilde: Engelsk Wikipedia)

Robrecht giftet seg med Gertrud von Sachsen 1063. Gertrud (datter av Bernhard II Herzog von Sachsen og Eilika von Schweinfurt) ble født 1028-1035; døde 04 Aug 1089 el.1093, Cassel. [Gruppeskjema] [Familiediagram]

Notater:

"Adèle av Flandern, född 1064/1065, död 1115, drottning av Danmark och hertiginna av Apulien. Dotter till Robert I av Flandern och Gertrud av Sachsen.

Adele var första arvtagerska av grevskapet Flandern och blev i Apulien regent åt sonen Vilhelm.

Adele gifte sig första gången 1080/1081 med kung Knut den helige av Danmark (dräpt 1086). Paret fick följande barn:

Karl I av Flandern (1083/1085-1127), greve av Flandern
Cecilia Knutsdotter av Danmark (ca 1085-efter 1131), gift med Erik jarl (död efter 1145)
Ingegärd Knutsdotter av Danmark (född 1081/1086), gift med svensken Folke den tjocke
Adele gifte sig andra gången 1090/1092 med hertig Roger I "Borsa" av Apulien-Calabrien (död 1111). Paret fick följande barn:

Vilhelm II av Apulien-Calabrien (1095/1097-1127), hertig av Apulien-Calabrien."

Navn:
Navnets skrivemåte i Flandern.

Familie/Ektefelle/partner: Knud IV (den hellige), konge af Danmark. Knud (sønn av Svein II Estridsson, konge af Danmark og NN NN - frille til kong Svein Estridsson) ble født 1043; døde 10 Jul 1086, Sankt Albani kirke, Odense; ble begravet , Sankt Knuds Kirke, Odense. [Gruppeskjema] [Familiediagram]

Familie/Ektefelle/partner: Erik Jarl af Falster. Erik døde e. 1145. [Gruppeskjema] [Familiediagram]