Adele Le Capet, Countess Of Normandy b. Abt 1009 France d. 8 Jan 1079 Flanders, Belgium: Our Family History

Abt 1009 - 1079 (70 years)

Name	Adele Le Capet
Title	Countess Of Normandy
Birth	Abt 1009	France [1]
Gender	Female
Death	8 Jan 1079	Flanders, Belgium [1]
Person ID	I7361	footsteps \| Ancestors, Robert Capet II
Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

Father	Robert Capet, King of France , II, b. 27 Mar 972, France d. 20 Jul 1031, Melun, Île-de-France, France (Age 59 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Constance D'Arles, Reine Des Francs , b. 27 Mar 973, Midi-Pyrénées, France d. 28 Jul 1032, Melun, Île-de-France, France (Age 59 years)
Relationship	natural
Marriage	1000	Île-De-France, France
Family ID	F1566	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Baudouin Flandre, Count Of Flanders , b. Abt 19 Aug 1012, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France d. 1 Sep 1067, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France (Age 55 years)

Marriage 1028

Children

+	1. Matilda of Flanders, Queen Consort of England , b. Abt 1031, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France d. 2 Nov 1083, Normandie, France (Age 52 years)

Family ID F4470 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 21 Apr 2025

Notes

Adele had a strong interest in Baldwin V's church reforms and was behin d h i s f o u nding of several collegiate churches. Directly or indirectly, s h e w a s r e sponsible for establishing the Colleges of Aire (1049), Lille ( 1 0 5 0 ) a n d H arelbeke (1064) as well as the abbeys of Messines (1057) a n d E na m e ( 1063).

After Baldwin's death in 1067, she went to Rome, took the nun's veil fr o m t h e h a nds of Pope Alexander II and retired to the Benedictine conven t o f M e s s ines, near Ypres. There she later died and was buried at the c on ve n t . H onoured as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, her commemora t i o n d a y is 8 September.

Adele's influence lay mainly through her family connections. On the dea t h o f h e r b rother, Henry I of France, the guardianship of his seven-yea r - ol d s o n Philip I fell jointly on his widow, Ann of Kiev, and on his b r o t h e r-in-law, Adela's husband, so that from 1060 to 1067, they were Re g e n t s o f France.

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