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Adèle of Troyes

Female - 979


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  • Name Adèle of Troyes 
    Gender Female 
    Died From 6 Mar 974 to 9 Mar 979 
    Person ID I7136  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Robert de Vermandois,   b. From 931 to 934 
    Mother Adelais alias Wierra 
    Married Bef 18 Jun 950 
    Family ID F3178  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Geoffroi I "Grisegonelle" d'Anjou 
    Married Abt 965 
    Children 
     1. Foulques III "Nerra"
     2. Geoffroi II "Grisegonelle" d'Anjou
     3. Ermengarde of Anjou
     4. Gerberge d'Anjou
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F3175  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “ADÈLE OF TROYES, married about 965 GEOFFROI I GRISEGONELLE, Count of Anjou, 958/960-987, Count of Châlon, 979-987, son of Foulques II the Good, Count of Anjou, by his wife, Gerberge. They had two sons, Foulques III Nerra [Count of Anjou] and Geoffroi, and two daughters, Ermengarde and Gerberge (wife of Guillaume IV, Count of Angoulême). His wife, Adèle, was living 6 March 974. He married (2nd) 20 or 9 March 979 ADÈLE ___, widow of Lambert I, Count of Chalon-sur-Saône (died 22 Feb. 978). They had one son, Maurice. GEOFFROI I, Count of Anjou, was slain in battle at Marcon (near Château-du-Loir) 21 July 987, and was buried at Saint-Martin de Tours. His widow, Adèle, was living in 999.
      Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 6 (1730): 3-21 (sub Anjou). Étienne-Gallois La Champagne et les derniers Carlovingiens (1853): 139-145. Lot Les derniers Carolingiens: Lothaire, Louis V., Charles de Lorraine (954-991) (1891): 323-331. Métais Cartulaire Saintongeais de la Trinité de Vendôme (Archives historiques de la Saintonge et de l’Aunis 22) (1893): 2-11. Cartulaire de l’Abbaye cardinals de la Dinite de Vendôme 1 (1893): 10-11 (Genealogia Comitum Andegavensium). René Poupardin, "Généalogies angevines du XIe Siècle," in Mélanges d'Archéologie et d'Histoire 20 (1900): 199-208. Halphen Recueil d'Annales Angevines et Vendômoises (1903). Halphen & Poupardin Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise (1913): 247-250 (Genealogiæ Comitum Andegavensium). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3 (1984): 49 (sub Vermandois), 116 (sub Anjou). "Notes sur quelques Vicomtes de Châtellerault" in Bull. de la Société des Antiquaires de l'Ouest 16 (1981): 261-270. Bernard S. Bachrach, "Geoffrey Greymantle, count of the Angevins, 960-987: a Study in French Politics," Studies in Medieval & Renaissance Hist. n.s. 7 (1985): 3-65. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): VIII.2, IX.2-IX.4. Bachrach Falk Nerra (1993). Marchegay & Salmon Chroniques d'Anjou (1856). Marchegay & Mabille Chroniques des Églises d'Anjou (1869): 164-165 (Chronicon Vindocinense seu de Aquaria sub A.D. 1187: "Obiit Gosfredus, Andecavorum comes, pater Fulconis ultimi, XII kalendas augusti [21 July], in obsidione Marsonis super Odonem Rufinum facta."). Bouchard Sword, Miter, & Cloister (1987): 307-309. Kerrebrouck La Préhistoire des Capetians (1993). Bouchard Those of My Blood (2001): 19 (chart), 149-154.”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “ROBERT, Count of Meaux, 946-after 966, and, in right of his wife, Count of Troyes, 956-after 966, born between 931 and 934. He married before 18 June 950 ADELAIS (alias WERRA), daughter of Giselbert, Duke of Burgundy, Count of Chalon-sur-Saone, Troyes, Autun, Avalois, and Beaunois, by his wife, Ermengarde. They had one son, Heribert [Count of Meaux and Troyes] and Adele. ROBERT, Count of Troyes and Meaux, probably died after 19 June 966. His wife, Adelais, was living in August 967.
      Étienne-Gallois La Champagne et les derniers Carlovingiens (1853): 139-145. Migne S. Brunonis, Herbipolensis Episcopi; S. Odilonis abbatis Cluniacensis, Bernonis Augiensis Abbatis 1 (Patrologiæ cursus Completus 2nd Ser. 142(1)) (1853): col. 772 Odoranni Monachi Sancti Petri Vivi Senonensis: Chronicon: "Anno 956 Gislebertus comes Burgundionum obiit, et honorem ejus cum cum filia nomine Leudegarde … Aliam vero filiam nomine Werram duidt in matrimonium Robertus comes Trecasinorurn."). Lot Les derniers Carolingiens: Lothaire, Louis V., Charles de Lorraine (954-991) (1891): 323-331. Études d'Histoire du Moyen Age dédiées à Gabriel Monod (1896): 136 (charter of Robert, Count of Troyes, dated 959). Halphen & Poupardin Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise (1913): 247-250 (Genealogiæ Comitum Andegavensium). Brandenburg Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen (1935) VII 5. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3 (1984): 49 (sub Vermandois). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): VII.4, VIII.1-VIII.3. Settipani & von Kerrebrouck La Préhistoire des Capetians (1993). Bouchard Those of My Blood (2001): 149-154. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 308 (Vermandois ped.).”