Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct Ancestor of Retha Zulma Gott
• Name: the Holy
• Occupation: After Baldwin’s death, she went to Rome, took the nun’s veil from the hands of Pope Alexander II and retired to the Benedictine convent of Messines, near Ypres
• Ordained: Saint Adela of Messines is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, and her commemoration day is 8 September
• Religion: Adèle had an especially great interest in Baldwin V’s church-reform politics and was behind her husband’s founding of the Colleges of Aire, Lille and Harelbekeas well as the abbeys of Messines and Ename

Notes:

Buried:
Benedictine convent of Messines

Saint married Duke of Normandy Richard de Normandy, III in Jan 1027. Richard (son of 4th Duke of Normandy Richard Beauclerc, II and Princess of Brittany and Normandy Lady Judith de Bretagne) was born in 1001 in Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 3 Feb 1027 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Saint married Count of Flanders Baldwin de Flanders, V in Aug 1027 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Baldwin (son of Count of Flanders Baldwin de Flanders, IV and Ogive de Luxembourge) was born on 19 Aug 1012 in Belgium; died on 1 Sep 1066 in Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
After the death of Richard III

1. Queen consort of the Kingdom of England Matilda de Flanders was born in 1031 in Belgium; died on 2 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; was buried in Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: the Pious
• Religion: a very devout Catholic, advocating forced conversions of local Jewry, as well as mob violence against Jews who refused, and reinstated the Roman imperial custom of burning heretics at the stake
• _ORDI: 93rd great grandson of Adam and Eve
• _MILT: 1031; His sons turned against him in a civil war over power and property

Notes:

Buried:
Basilica of Saint Denis

Died:
died in the middle of the war with his sons

Robert married Constance True d'Arles de Provence in 1001. Constance (daughter of Margrave William de Provence, I and Queen Consort of Aquitaine Adelaide-Blanche de Anjou) was born on 27 Mar 985 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; died on 25 Jul 1032 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
In 1010 King Robert II went to Rome to secure an annulment from Constance. Pope Sergius IV, a friend to the Angevin counts, upheld the marriage and additionally upheld Adelaide's struggle to maintain control of lands at Montmajour Abbey

Other Events and Attributes:

• _ORDI: 92nd great grandson of Adam and Eve

Notes:

Buried:
Basilica of Saint Denis

Hugh married Queen of the Franks Adelaide de Aquitaine about 968 in Orléans, Loiret, Centre, France. Adelaide (daughter of Duke of Aquitaine Guillaume Tête d'Aquitaine and Adele de Normandy) was born in 945 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; died on 15 Jun 1006 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: the Liberator
• Occupation: founder of the county of Provence
• Religion: Retired to become a Monk
• _MILT: Liberated Provence from the threat from the Saracens (Muslims)

Notes:

Buried:
(Church of Saint-Croix, Sarrians)

William married Queen Consort of Aquitaine Adelaide-Blanche de Anjou in 984. Adelaide-Blanche (daughter of Comte de Anjou Fulk de Anjou, II and Gerberge Gatinals de Maine) was born in 940 in France; died in 1026 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct Ancestor of Mack Ferrin Smith
• Occupation: Countess by marriage of Gévaudan and Forez, Toulouse, Provence, and Burgundy
• Occupation: Regent of Gevaudan during the minority of her sons and Regent of Provence during the minority of her stepson

Notes:

Birth:
(Vermandois)

Notes:

Married:
(against papal advice)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: the Great
• _ORDI: 91st great grandson of Adam and Eve
• Religion: 948; At a church council at Ingelheim the bishops condemned and excommunicated Hugh in absentia, and returned Archbishop Artauld to his see at Reims

Hugh married Hedwig von Sachsen on 14 Sep 938 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Hedwig (daughter of King of Germany Heinrich von Sachsen, I and Mathilde von Ringelheim) was born in 922 in Saxony, Germany; died on 10 May 965 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Count of the Duchy of Aquitaine

Guillaume married Adele de Normandy. Adele was born in 917 in Normandy, France; died in 962 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: le Bon (the good)

Fulk married Gerberge Gatinals de MaineAnjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France. Gerberge (daughter of Viscount of Vienne Ratburnus, I) was born in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France; died on 11 Nov 1009 in Tours, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]