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Adela/Adelaide, countess of Flanders

Overview

Title social-status
countess of Flanders
Date of Death
1079

Biography

(See also Genealogical Table(s): 1. 2, 2.4.2.)
Adela was a daughter of Robert II (“the pious”) of France and Constance of Provence; she was married first to Richard III of Normandy, then to Baldwin V of Flanders, with whom she had Baldwin VI and Robert the Frisian, successive counts of Flanders, Matilda, queen of William I of England, and Odo, archbishop of Trier.