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Adelaide (Bourgogne) di Italia (931 - abt. 999)

Saint Adelaide di Italia formerly Bourgogne
Born in Switzerlandmap
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Daughter of and
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Wife of — married 0947 [location unknown]
Wife of — married 0951 [location unknown]
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Died about at about age 68 in Seltz, Alsacemap
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Biography

Saint Adelaide of Italy, helped strengthen German church while subordinating it to imperial power.

Titles

  • consort of Otto I
  • regent for Otto III

Vitals

German: ADELHEID DIE HEILIGE

Fr: SAINTE ADLAßDE

It: SANTA ADELAIDE

b . 931 Orbe -- in Switzerland

d. 16 Dec 999 Seltz, Alsace

Parents

Rudolf II (d. 937), king of Burgundy and Bertha of Swabia

House: Welf

Marriage

m.1 (947) Lothair II (d.950).[1] Issue:

  • Emma of Italy.

m.2 (Dec 951) Otto I the Great (d.May 7, 973)[2][3]

  • Henry (b. 952)
  • Bruno (b.953)
  • Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. abt 954)
  • Otto II, later Holy Roman Emperor (b.955)

Sainthood

  • 1097 AD: Canonized by Pope Urban II
  • feast: Dec 16

Sources

  1. ↑ father: Hugh of Arles, king of Italy; first marriage at fifteen
  2. ↑ crowned Emperor in Rome, 2 February 962 by Pope John XII, and she was crowned Empress; Among their children, four lived to maturity l after Otto died, Adelaide exercised influence over her son Otto II until their estrangement in 978, when she left the court and lived in Burgundy with her brother King Conrad. At Conrad's urging she became reconciled with her son, and, before his death in 983, Otto appointed her his regent in Italy. With her daughter-in-law, Empress Theophano, she upheld the right of her three-year-old grandson, Otto III, to the German throne. She lived in Lombardy from 985 to 991, when she returned to Germany to serve as sole regent after Theophano's death (991). She governed until Otto III came of age (994), and, when he became Holy Roman emperor in 996, she retired from court life, devoting herself to founding churches, monasteries, and convents.
  3. ↑ 1994-1999 Encyclopædia Britannica; Wikipedia




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Willis-3076 Valerie Willis
Burgundy-245 and Bourgogne-52 appear to represent the same person because: same name - Bourgogne is correct (French spelling of Burgundy)
posted by Valerie Willis

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