Adela/Adelaide, countess of Flanders

Overview

Title social-status

countess of Flanders

Date of Death

1079

Biography

(See also Genealogical Table(s): 1. 2, 2.4.2.)
Adela was a daughter of Robert II (“the pious”) of France and Constance of Provence; she was married first to Richard III of Normandy, then to Baldwin V of Flanders, with whom she had Baldwin VI and Robert the Frisian, successive counts of Flanders, Matilda, queen of William I of England, and Odo, archbishop of Trier.

Letters to Adela/Adelaide, countess of Flanders

A letter from Anselm of Bec (of Canterbury) (c.1077-78)
A letter from Gregory VII, pope (1076)