CAPET, Adèle Comtesse de Flandre

  General Notes:

Adèle de France, Comtesse de Flander, Comtesse de Corbie.

  Research Notes:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Capet-24
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Biography

Adèle is the second daughter of Robert II (the Pious), and Constance of Arles. In january 1026, she may have been betrothed to Richard, Duc de Normandie (d. Aug 1027), but it's uncertain and there is no evidence that the marriage took place.[2]

What is certain is that Adela did marry Baldwin V, Count of Flanders and had three proven children with him.[4]
Titles

Countess of Normandy (Jan 1027\endash Aug 1027),
Countess of Flanders (1035\endash 1067).[3]
Adela Comtesse de Corbie

Marriage

m. (1028) Baldwin V, Count of Flanders[1][3][4]

Badouin (c. 1030 - d. 17 Jul 1070)
Mathilde (c. 1032 - d. 02 Nov 1083).
Robert (c. 1035 - d. 13 Oct 1093)
(unproven) Henry.[5][5]

Timeline

Church Reform: 1049

Adèle had a strong interest in Baldwin V's church reforms and was behind his 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 retired to the Benedictine convent of Messines, near Ypres. There she later died and was buried at the convent. Honoured as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, her commemoration day is 8 September.[3]

Regent of France: 1060

Adèle's influence lay mainly through 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.[4][3]

Son invades Flanders: 1071

In 1071, Adela's third son, Robert the Frisian, planned to invade Flanders even though at that time the Count of Flanders was Adela's grandson, Arnulf III. When she heard about Robert's plans, she asked Philip I to stop him. Philip sent soldiers to support Arnulf including 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 was killed along with William FitzOsborn. Robert's overwhelming victory led to Philip making peace with Robert and investing him as Count of Flanders. A year later, Philip married Robert's stepdaughter, Bertha of Holland, and in 1074, Philip restored the seigneurie of Corbie to the crown.[3]

Sources

? 1.0 1.1 Cawley, 2006.[1]
? Betrothal, (Cawley (2006) citing Kerrebrouck). In Jan 1026, Richard, duc de Normandie deeded property to a woman he married named Adela, but no proof it was Adela de France. The charter does not name his wife's parents (Cawley, 2006).[2] Baldwin (2006), is even more strict and eliminates Richard all together.[3]
? 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Wikipedia: Adèle of France, Countess of Flanders.
? Cawley names documents which identify Adela, daughter of King Robert, as wife of Baldwin (Balduino, Baudouin) of Flanders.
? Baldwin (2006) mentions that Henry is an alleged / uncertain child, while Cawley (2006), does not list him at all.

Bibliography

"Royal Ancestry" 2013 by Douglas Richardson Vol. I page 17
Baldwin, S. (2006, October 12). "Baldwin (Baudouin) V de Lille (Balduinus Insulanus, Balduinus Pius)." The Henry Project. Web.[6]

Cawley, C. (2006). "Adela de France." Medieval Lands v.4. Fmg.ac.[7]

Wikipedia: Adèle of France, Countess of Flanders

Citations and Notes See also...

Rev. F. O. Morris, ed. A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. London, England: William Mackenzie, 1866?-1880?

Adèle married Baudouin FLANDRE Count of Flanders, son of Baudouin FLANDRE and Otgive DE LUXEMBOURG, in 1028 in Amiens. (Baudouin FLANDRE Count of Flanders was born about 19 Aug 1012 in Flanders, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France and died on 1 Sep 1067 in Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.)