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DE CHALON, Adelaide

Female 914 - 967  (53 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  DE CHALON, Adelaide was born in 914; died in 967.

    Adelaide married VERMANDOIS, Robert deFrance. Robert (son of VERMANDOIS, Herbert II and ADELE, son of VERMANDOIS, Herbert II and OF FRANCE, Hildebranda) was born in 918; died in 968. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. MEAUX, Adele of  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 934; died in 982.
    2. 3. TROYES, Adelaide of  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 955; died in 991.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  MEAUX, Adele ofMEAUX, Adele of Descendancy chart to this point (1.Adelaide1) 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. 4. ANJOU, Fulk III of  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 970; died in 1040.
    2. 5. ANJOU, Ermengarde-Gerberga of  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 956; died in 1024.

  2. 3.  TROYES, Adelaide of Descendancy chart to this point (1.Adelaide1) was born in 955; died in 991.

    Family/Spouse: CHARLES. (son of FRANCE, Louis IV of, son of FRANCE, Louis IV of and SAXONY, Gerberga of) was born in 953 in Laon, Aisne, Picardie, France; died in 993 in Orléans, Loiret, Centre, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. LORRAINE, Gerberga of Lower  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 980; died in 1018.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  ANJOU, Fulk III ofANJOU, Fulk III of Descendancy chart to this point (2.Adele2, 1.Adelaide1) 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. 7. 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. 5.  ANJOU, Ermengarde-Gerberga of Descendancy chart to this point (2.Adele2, 1.Adelaide1) 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. 8. 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.

  3. 6.  LORRAINE, Gerberga of LowerLORRAINE, Gerberga of Lower Descendancy chart to this point (3.Adelaide2, 1.Adelaide1) was born in 980; died in 1018.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Relation to Me: 30 GGM
    • Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Louvain

    Family/Spouse: LAMBERT, I. I was born in 950 in Louvain, Duchy of Lotharingia, East Francia, France; died on 12 Sep 1015 in Florennes, County of Namur, Duchy of Lower Lorraine, Holy Roman Empire, Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 9. LAMBERT, II  Descendancy chart to this point died on 19 Jun 1054.


Generation: 4

  1. 7.  ANJOU, Ermengarde d Descendancy chart to this point (4.Fulk3, 2.Adele2, 1.Adelaide1) 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. 10. 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. 11. 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. 8.  BRITTANY, Judith ofBRITTANY, Judith of Descendancy chart to this point (5.Ermengarde-Gerberga3, 2.Adele2, 1.Adelaide1) 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. 12. 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.

  3. 9.  LAMBERT, IILAMBERT, II Descendancy chart to this point (6.Gerberga3, 3.Adelaide2, 1.Adelaide1) died on 19 Jun 1054.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Royalty & Nobility: Between 1033 and 1054; Count of Louvain

    Family/Spouse: VERDUN, Oda of. Oda (daughter of GOTHELO, Duke of Lorraine I and Living) was born in 990; died in 1062 in Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 13. HENRY, II  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1020; died in 1078.


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