Adelaide/Adeliza/Adelida, royal nun

Overview

Title social-status

royal nun

Date of Death

lived in the 11th century

Biography

(See also Genealogical Table(s): 2, 2.4.2.)
Adelaide was a daughter of William I (“the conqueror”) and Matilda of Flanders, and a self-consecrated nun, who may have lived for a time at Holy Trinity, Caen, where she was buried. She was an older sister of William II, of Henry I, and of Adela of Blois.

Letters to Adelaide/Adeliza/Adelida, royal nun

A letter from Anselm of Bec (of Canterbury) (c.1071)