Adelaide Duchess Of TURIN

Female Abt 1015 - 1091  (76 years)


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  • Name Adelaide Duchess Of TURIN  [1, 2, 3
    • Adelaide was born around 1015 and was the daughter of Odalrico Manfredo II, Margrave of Turin and Susa, and his wife Bertha of Este. Odalrico died while Adelaide was still a young, unmarried woman, and she inherited most of his vast domains in northern Italy.

      Adelaide was a beautiful woman with the soul of a lion. She had learned martial arts as a girl and bore her own arms and armor. she had masculine courage and energy and knew how to rule her inheritance. More than once she waged war on rebels in her own territories, burning Asti, Lodi, and other towns that had risen against her.

      Adelaide had three husbands. the first was Hermann, Duke of Swabia, whom she married in January 1037 and who died of plague in 1038. Her second was Henry of Montferrat, whom she married in 1041 and who died in 1045. Her third husband was Otto of Savoy, whom she married in 1046 and who died about twelve years later. It was through her children with Otto that Adelaide became one of the founders of the house of Savoy.

      Adelaide's involvement in politics did not stop at her own borders. In the struggle between the German emperors and the papacy, she strongly supported the imperial side. In the quarrel between her son-in-law Emperor Henry IV and pope Gregory VII her advice to Henry saved his crown for him. When Henry went to Canossa to seek forgiveness from Pope, Adelaide went with him.

      In her old age, Adelaide brooded over her three marriages. No one today knows what was troubling her. She did decide to seek God's forgiveness by doing works of charity, and she began to give generously to religious institutions. [1]
    Birth Abt 1015  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Female 
    Death 19 Dec 1091  [1, 2, 3
    Person ID I58686  Main Tree
    Last Modified 17 Jan 2016 

    Father Odalrico Manfrido II Margrave Of TURIN   d. 23 Dec 1035 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Bertha Of ESTE   d. 29 Dec 1037 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage Bef 1014  [2
    Family ID F14181  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Hermann IV Duke Of SWABIA,   b. Abt 1015   d. 28 Jul 1038 (Age 23 years) 
    Marriage Jan 1037  [1, 2
    Children 
     1. Gebhard I Count Of SULZBACH   d. Abt 1080, Murdered Find all individuals with events at this location  [Natural]
     2. Hermann I Count Of CASTILE   d. 1038  [Birth]
    Family ID F14213  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Jul 2013 

    Family 2 Henry Margrave Of MONTFERRAT   d. 1045 
    Marriage 1041  [1, 2
    Family ID F14214  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Jul 2013 

    Family 3 Eudes (Odo),   b. Abt 1020   d. Between 19 Jan 1057 and 1058 (Age 37 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1046  [1, 2
    Children 
     1. Margrave of Susa Amadeus II (I),   b. Abt 1046   d. 26 Jan 1080 (Age 34 years)  [Birth]
     2. Bertha Of TURIN,   b. 1051   d. 27 Dec 1087 (Age 36 years)  [Birth]
     3. Adelaide VON SUSA
    Family ID F14215  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Jul 2013 

  • Sources 
    1. [S5452] Alan J. Koman, A Who's Who of Your Ancestral Saints, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. - Baltimore).

    2. [S03311] Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty For Commoners - Fourth Edition, (Name: Name: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc;;).

    3. [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.