Adelaide, Countess of Aumale

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Adelaide, Countess of Aumale, daughter of Robert I "the Magnificent," Duke of Normandy and another mistress (not Herleve) was born before 1035.1,2 She died between 1081 and 1084.3

Adelaide married (1) Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu, son of Hugh II, Count of Ponthieu and Bertha of Aumale, about 1045.2,3 The marriage of Adelaide and Enguerrand was probably annulled about 1049/50 after the Council of Reims excommunicated Enguerrand on grounds of incest, "evidently because Enguerrand's sister had been married to Adelaide's uncle";4 she married (2) Lambert of Boulogne, Count of Lens, son of Eustace I and Maud of Louvain, between 1050 and 1054;2,3 she married (3) Eudes III, Count of Champagne, son of Ètienne, Count of Troyes and Méaux and Adelaide, about 1060.5

Family 1

Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu d. 25 Oct 1053
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Family 2

Lambert of Boulogne, Count of Lens d. 1054
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Family 3

Eudes III, Count of Champagne d. bt Jan 1096 - 2 Aug 1107
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This person was last edited on30 Mar 2021

Citations

  1. [S520] Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700… ., 8th ed. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), 130-24, further cited as Weis, Sheppard, Beall, and Beall, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed.
  2. [S1947] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Five vols., Salt Lake City, Utah: s.p., 2013), 1:208 (Aumale 1), further cited as Richardson, Royal Ancestry.
  3. [S520] Weis, Sheppard, Beall, and Beall, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 148-22.
  4. [S1954] Stewart Baldwin, The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England: An Experiment in Cooperative Medieval Genealogy on the Internet, https://fasg.org/projects/henryproject/data/rober000.htm, accessed 1 Aug 2016. Hereinafter cited as Baldwin, The Henry Project.
  5. [S1947] Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 1:208-9 (Aumale 1).
  6. [S2084] Charles Cawley and Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, "NORTHERN FRANCE: AMIENS, MONTREUIL, PONTHIEU," Medieval Lands: A Prosopography of Medieval European Noble and Royal Families, ver. 4.3, online (by subscription) http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CONTENTS.htm, accessed Apr 2019, further cited as Cawley & FMG, "NORTHERN FRANCE: AMIENS, MONTREUIL, PONTHIEU."
  7. [S520] Weis, Sheppard, Beall, and Beall, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 148-23.