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Adelgida/Adela

Overview

Title social-status
Countess of Savoy and Belley
Date of Birth
early 11th century

Biography

(See also Genealogical Table(s): 5.)
Adelgida/Adela  was the wife of Amadeus I, count of Savoy and Belley (successor and son of Humbert I, “Whitehands”).    Adelgida is not otherwise identified, but she is likely to be of high birth;  she is described in one donation as "illustrissima,"  most illustrious.  She and Amadeus were married by 1030 and had two sons, Humbert and Aymon, and perhaps a daughter. *