Adèle Capet, hertuginne av Flandern

Kvinne 1009 - 1079  (70 år)


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  • Navn Adèle Capet, hertuginne av Flandern 
    Født 1009 
    Kjønn Kvinne 
    Død 08 Jan 1079  Messines Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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.

    Person ID I2255  Kaas | Franske kongelige
    Sist endret 24 Mai 2009 

    Far Robert II Capet, konge av Frankrike,   f. 27 Mar 972, Orléans, Frankrike Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 00 Jul 1031, Melun Find all individuals with events at this location  (Alder 59 år) 
    Mor Constance d’Arles, dronning av Frankrike,   f. 986, Provence, Frankrike Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 el. 25 Jul 1034, Château de Melun Find all individuals with events at this location  (Alder 48 år) 
    Notater 
    • Robert II's tredje ekteskap.
    Famile ID F913  Gruppeskjema  |  Familiediagram

    Familie Boudewijn V van Rijsel, greve av Flandern,   f. 1013, Arras Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 01 Sep 1067  (Alder 54 år) 
    Gift 1028  Paris Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Barn 
    +1. Robrecht I de Fries, greve av Flandern,   f. 1029-32,   d. 13 Okt 1093, Kassel Find all individuals with events at this location
    Sist endret 23 Mai 2009 
    Famile ID F912  Gruppeskjema  |  Familiediagram