PARIS, Adelaide of
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Name PARIS, Adelaide of Adelaide of Paris - Wikipedia Birth 848 Paris, Île-de-France, France Gender Female Relation to Me 34 GGM Royalty & Nobility Queen consort of the Franks Death 901 Paris, Île-de-France, France Person ID I135 My Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
Father PARIS, Adalard of, b. 830 d. 890 (Age 60 years) Relationship natural Family ID F1838 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family LUDWIG, Louis II, b. 1 Sep 846 d. 10 Apr 879, Compiègne, Oise, Picardie, France (Age 32 years)
Other Partners: BURGUNDY, Ansgarde of m. 862Marriage 864 Paris, Île-de-France, France Married 875 Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France Children 1. FRANCE, Ermentrude of, b. 27 Sep 865, Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France d. 897, Moselle, Lorraine, France (Age 31 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 2. CHARLES, III, b. 17 Sep 879, Picardie, France d. 7 Oct 929, Péronne, Somme, Picardie, France (Age 50 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 3. DEFRANCE, Carloman, b. La Chapelle, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France d. France [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F63 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
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Event Map Birth - 848 - Paris, Île-de-France, France Marriage - 864 - Paris, Île-de-France, France Married - 875 - Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France Death - 901 - Paris, Île-de-France, France = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - Adelaide was the daughter of the count palatine Adalard of Paris. Her great-grandfather was Bégon, Count of Paris. Her great-grandmother, Alpaïs, wife of Bégon, was the illegitimate daughter of Louis the Pious by an unnamed mistress.
Adelaide was chosen by Charles the Bald, King of Western Francia, to marry his son and heir, Louis the Stammerer, despite the fact that Louis had secretly married Ansgarde of Burgundy against the wishes of his father. Although Louis and Ansgarde already had two children, Louis and Carloman,[1] Charles prevailed upon Pope John VIII, to dissolve the union. This accomplished, Charles married his son to Adelaide in February 875.
However, the marriage was called into question because of the close blood-kinship of the pair. When on 7 September 878 the pope crowned Louis (who had succeeded his father in the previous year), the pope refused to crown Adelaide.[2]
When Louis the Stammerer died in Compiegne on 10 April 879, Adelaide was pregnant, giving birth on 17 September 879, to Charles the Simple.[3] The birth of this child led to a dispute between Adelaide and Ansgarde. Ansgarde and her sons accused Adelaide of adultery; Adelaide in turn disputed the right of Ansgarde's sons to inherit. Eventually, Adelaide succeeded in winning the case; but despite this, Ansgarde's sons Louis and Carloman remained kings until their deaths without heirs in 882 and 884 respectively, with the crown then being contested between Odo, Count of Paris and Charles the Fat.
Charles eventually succeeded to his father's throne in 898; his mother assisted in crowning him. She died in Laon on 10 November 901 and was buried in the Abbey of Saint-Corneille, Compiègne, Picardy.
- Adelaide was the daughter of the count palatine Adalard of Paris. Her great-grandfather was Bégon, Count of Paris. Her great-grandmother, Alpaïs, wife of Bégon, was the illegitimate daughter of Louis the Pious by an unnamed mistress.