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MEAUX, Adele of

MEAUX, Adele of

Female 934 - 982  (48 years)

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  MEAUX, Adele ofMEAUX, Adele of was born in 934; died in 982.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Relation to Me: 32 GGM
    • Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Chalon and Anjou

    Adele married GEOFFREY, I in Mar in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France. I was born in 938; died on 21 Jul 987. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. ANJOU, Fulk III of  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 970; died in 1040.
    2. 3. ANJOU, Ermengarde-Gerberga of  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 956; died in 1024.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  ANJOU, Fulk III ofANJOU, Fulk III of Descendancy chart to this point (1.Adele1) was born in 970; died in 1040.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Relation to Me: 31 GGF
    • Royalty & Nobility: Count of Anjou
    • Name: The Black

    Notes:

    Celebrated as one of the first great builders of medieval castles. He constructed an estimated 100 of them, along with abbeys, across the Loire Valley in what is now France. He fought successive wars with neighbors in Brittany, Blois, Poitou and Aquitaine and traveled four times to Jerusalem on pilgrimage during the course of his life. Fulk was a natural horseman and a fearsome warrior, with a keen sense of military strategy that saw him get the better of most of his opponents. Fulk was also a devout Christian, and built, enlarged or endowed several abbeys and monasteries, such as the Abbey of Beaulieu-les-Loches, Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, Saint-Aubin, and a convent, Notre Dame de la Charité at Ronceray in Angers. Although he never learned to write, he endowed a school with revenue to provide poor students with an education. Fulk also undertook four pilgrimages to Jerusalem.

    Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 4. ANJOU, Ermengarde d  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1018 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 18 Mar 1076 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France.

  2. 3.  ANJOU, Ermengarde-Gerberga of Descendancy chart to this point (1.Adele1) was born in 956; died in 1024.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Rennes, Regent of Brittany (992–994) and also Countess of Angoulême.

    Family/Spouse: BRITTANY, Conan I. Conan was born in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France; died on 27 Jun 992. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. BRITTANY, Judith of  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 21 Mar 982 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France; died on 16 Jun 1017 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  ANJOU, Ermengarde d Descendancy chart to this point (2.Fulk2, 1.Adele1) was born in 1018 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 18 Mar 1076 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Relation to Me: 30 GGM
    • Royalty & Nobility: Duchess of Burgundy
    • Name: She was sometimes known as Ermengarde-Blanche.

    Notes:

    Married to count Geoffroy of Gâtinais, she was a widow by late 1045 or early 1046 when her mother Hildegarde departed for the Holy Land [Halphen (1906), 293 (act #169); Guillot (1972), 1: 102, n. 453; 2: 159 (act C 242)]. She then became the second wife of duke Robert I of Burgundy, probably not long afterward (since her daughter by that marriage was married in 1067), and died on the same day as her husband, 18 March 1076. As heiress of her brother Geoffroy II Martel, count of Anjou, Ermengarde carried the Angevin possessions to her sons Geoffroy III "le Barbu" and Foulques IV "le Rechin".

    Family/Spouse: GEOFFREY, II. II died between 1043 and 1046. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. ANJOU, Fulk IV of  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1043 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 14 Apr 1109 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France.

    Ermengarde married France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Family/Spouse: ROBERT, I. I (son of FRANCE, Robert II of and ARLES, Constance of) was born in 1011; died on 21 Mar 1076. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 7. DEBOUGGOGNE, Hildegarde Capet  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1056 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France; died in 1104 in Aquitaine, France.

  2. 5.  BRITTANY, Judith ofBRITTANY, Judith of Descendancy chart to this point (3.Ermengarde-Gerberga2, 1.Adele1) was born on 21 Mar 982 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France; died on 16 Jun 1017 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Differentiator: Paternal grandmother of William the Conqueror.[
    • Relation to Me: 30 GGM
    • Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Brittany
    • Name: Judith DeBretagne; Judith of Rennes

    Judith married RICHARD, II in 1000. II (son of RICHARD, I and Living, son of DUKE OF NORMANDY, Richard I "The Fearless" and DE CREPON, Gunnora) was born on 23 Aug 963; died on 28 Aug 1026 in Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. NORMANDY, Robert I Magnificent  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 22 Jun 1000 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; died on 2 Jul 1035.


Generation: 4

  1. 6.  ANJOU, Fulk IV ofANJOU, Fulk IV of Descendancy chart to this point (4.Ermengarde3, 2.Fulk2, 1.Adele1) was born in 1043 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 14 Apr 1109 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Differentiator: Fulk may have married as many as five times; there is some doubt regarding the exact number or how many he repudiated.
    • Relation to Me: 29 GGF
    • Name: le Réchin The nickname by which he is usually referred has no certain translation. Philologists have made numerous very different suggestions, including "quarreler", "rude", "sullen", "surly" and "heroic". He was noted to be " a man with many reprehensible, even scandalous, habits" by Orderic Vitalis.
    • Royalty & Nobility: Between 1068 and 1109; Count of Anjou

    Notes:

    In 1096 Fulk wrote an incomplete history of Anjou and its rulers titled Fragmentum historiae Andegavensis or "History of Anjou." The authorship and authenticity of this work is disputed. Only the first part of the history, describing Fulk's ancestry, is still in existance. The second part, supposedly describing Fulk's own rule, has not been recovered. If he did write it, it is one of the first medieval works of history written by a layman.

    The younger brother of count Geoffroy III "le Barbu", Fulk rebelled against his brother and captured him in 1067, and then again in 1068, when he imprisoned his brother again (not releasing him until 1096), and assumed control of the Angevin possessions. He persuaded the French king Phillipe I to accept this arrangement by ceding his paternal heritage of Gâtinais to the king. His later years were troubled by rebellion from his elder son Geoffroy (IV) Martel, who predeceased him, and Fulk was succeeded by his second son Foulques V in 1109.

    Family/Spouse: MONTFORT, Bertrade of. Bertrade (daughter of DE MONTFORT, Simon I and Living) was born in 1059 in Île-de-France, France; died on 14 Feb 1117 in Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 9. ANJOU, King of Jerusalem, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine Foulques V le Jeune Count of  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1092 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 10 Nov 1143 in `Akko, Hazafon, Israel.

  2. 7.  DEBOUGGOGNE, Hildegarde Capet Descendancy chart to this point (4.Ermengarde3, 2.Fulk2, 1.Adele1) was born in 1056 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France; died in 1104 in Aquitaine, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Relation to Me: 29 GGM
    • Royalty & Nobility: Duchess of Gascony and Aquitaine.

    Hildegarde married PIERRE, Guillaume VIII in Sep 1068 in Gironde, Gironde, Aquitaine, France. Guillaume (son of WILLIAM, V and AGNES) was born in 1025; died on 25 Sep 1086 in Chizé, Deux-Sèvres, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 10. DE AQUITAINE, Guillaume IX  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 22 Oct 1071; died on 10 Feb 1126 in Israel; was buried in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France.

  3. 8.  NORMANDY, Robert I MagnificentNORMANDY, Robert I Magnificent Descendancy chart to this point (5.Judith3, 3.Ermengarde-Gerberga2, 1.Adele1) was born on 22 Jun 1000 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; died on 2 Jul 1035.

    Notes:

    Died:
    Nicea, Bithynia, Turkey

    Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 11. WILLIAM, I  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 14 Oct 1028 in Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 9 Sep 1087 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; was buried in Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France.
    2. 12. OF NORMANDY, Adelaide  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Normandy, France; died in 1065 in Marcigny, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France.

    Robert married DEFALAISE, Harlette in 1023 in Graz-Umgebung, Steiermark, Austria. Harlette was born in 1003; died in 1050 in Mortain, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 12. OF NORMANDY, Adelaide  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Normandy, France; died in 1065 in Marcigny, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France.


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