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| Name |
Adelaide (St.) of Italy |
| Suffix |
Empress |
| Birth |
931 |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
16 Dec 999 |
Seltz, Alsace  |
| Notes |
- The Calendar of Saints says her first husband was poisoned by his successor.
When she refused to marry the murderer's son, she was imprisoned. King Otto
the Great freed her and married her. He died and her daughter-in-law forced
Adelaide to quit the royal presence. Throughout these troubles she remained
gracious and loving and ws canonised a hundred years after her death.
16 Dec is her feast day.
http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal7442
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| Person ID |
I6102 |
Glenn Cook Family |
| Last Modified |
19 Jun 2013 |
| Family 2 |
Otto I the Great, King of Germany, b. 23 Nov 912 d. 7 May 973 (Age 60 years) |
| Marriage |
Oct 951 |
| Children |
| | 1. Henry, b. 952 d. 7 Apr 954 (Age 2 years) |
| | 2. Bruno, b. 953 d. 8 Sep 957 (Age 4 years) |
| | 3. Matilda of Quedlinburg, Abbess of Quedlinburg, b. Abt 954 d. 6 Feb 999 (Age ~ 45 years) |
| | 4. Otto II of Saxony, Holy Roman Emperor, b. 955, Saxony, Germany d. 7 Dec 983 (Age 28 years) |
| | 5. William, Archbishop of Mainz d. 2 Mar 968 |
| | 6. Richilde von Saxe, Princess of Germany, b. About 0950 d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Family ID |
F2087 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
19 Jun 2013 |
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| Sources |
- [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).
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