- Adelaide of Anjou
Adelaide [Variously given as Alice, Adelais, Adalais, or Azalais.] (c. 947–1026), [ [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ANJOU,%20MAINE.htm#AdelaisM1M2LouisVFranksdied987M3M4 Adélaïde Blanche d'Anjou] ] called the White, ["la Blanche."] was the daughter of
Fulk II of Anjou andGerberga of Maine . She was therefore the sister of Geoffrey Greymantle. She was married five times to some of France's most important noblemen.Her first marriage, probably before 960, was to
Stephen, Viscount of Gévaudan . Her second marriage was to Raymond III,Count of Toulouse andPrince of Gothia , in 975. He died in 978.In 982, she married Louis, the young son of
Lothair of France , and the two were jointly crowned Monarchs of Aquitaine on the same day atBrioude . The large difference in age between the spouses was cause for a quick divorce in 984.She fled then to
Arles , where she contracted, against papal advice, a marriage withWilliam I of Provence in 984. She gave him a daughter,Constance of Arles , who later marriedRobert II of France .Her final marriage was to
Otto-William, Duke of Burgundy .Notes
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* [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ANJOU,%20MAINE.htm#AdelaisM1M2LouisVFranksdied987M3M4 Foundation for Medieval Genealogy on Adelaide of Anjou]
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