PONTHIEU, Countess Adelaid^[1]

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• Name	PONTHIEU, Adelaid
  Prefix	Countess
  Birth	1029	Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
  Gender	Female
  Death	1090	Aumale, Seine Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France
  Burial	Sep 1090
  WAC	25 Jul 1924
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  Person ID	I28807	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	NORMANDY, Duke Robert I ,   b. 22 Jun 1000, Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, Franced. 2 Jul 1035, Nicaea, Bursa, Turkey (Age 35 years)
  Mother	FALAISE, Harlette de ,   b. 9 Jun 1003, Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, Franced. 23 Apr 1078, Grestain, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	1023	France   [2, 3, 4]
  Notes	~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 1 Aug 1924, SLAKE.
  Family ID	F15136	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	PONTHIEU, Count Enguerrand II ,   b. 1025, Normandy, Neustria, France Normandy, Neustria, Franced. 1053, Siege, Arques, Normandy, France (Age 28 years)
  Marriage	1045	Normandy, France
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married , Normandy, France.
  Family ID	F16147	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 2	BOULOGNE, Count Lambert de ,   b. 3 Sep 1028, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Franced. 12 Mar 1054, Lille, Nord, France (Age 25 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1053	Normandy, France
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married , Normandy, France.
  Children	1 son and 3 daughters
  + 1. FITZGILBERT, Emma Auberee ,   b. Abt 1034, Meules, Normandy, France Meules, Normandy, Franced. 1080 (Age 46 years) + 2. BOULOGNE, Countess Judith ,   b. May 1054, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Franced. 1086, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England (Age 31 years)   3. AUMALE, Count Stephen Etienne ,   b. 1061, Aumale, Haute-Normandie, France Aumale, Haute-Normandie, Franced. 21 Apr 1127, North Riding, Yorkshire, England (Age 66 years) + 4. MONTREUIL, Countess Elizabeth de Ponthieu ,   b. 1049, St. Pol-sur-Mer, Nord, France St. Pol-sur-Mer, Nord, Franced. St. Pol-sur-Mer, Nord, France
  Family ID	F16148	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 3	AUMALE, Count Eudes III ,   b. 1020, Aumale, Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure, France Aumale, Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure, Franced. 1096, Aumal Seine-Maritime, Haute, Normandie, France (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1056	Normandy, France
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married , Normandy, France. ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 16 Aug 1994, SLAKE.
  Family ID	F16149	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Not to be confused with Adeliza (died before 1113, was a daughter of King William the Conqueror and his wife, Queen Matilda of Flanders) or Alice of Normandy (c. 1002 – 1038, was the daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy (972–1026) and Judith of Brittany). also know as: Adeliza Aumale, Adela de Lens, Adbehahide von England, Adelaide de Ghent, Countess of Aumale, Princess of Normandie, Countess of Ponthieu Adelaide of Normandy (or Adeliza) (c. 1030 – bef. 1090) was the sister of William the Conqueror and was Countess of Aumale in her own right. She was a natural daughter of Robert the Magnificent,[a] Duke of Normandy and born c.1030[1] Elisabeth Van Houts, in her article Les femmes dans l’histoire du duché de Normandie (or Women in the history of ducal Normandy) mentions Countess Adelaide as one of those notable Norman women who were known to have exerted a strong influence on their children especially with regard to passing on their own family history.[2] Adelaide's first marriage to Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu potentially gave then Duke William a powerful ally in upper Normandy.[3] But at the Council of Reims in 1049, when the marriage of Duke William with Matilda of Flanders was prohibited based on consanguinity, so were those of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne and Enguerrand of Ponthieu, who was already married to Adelaide.[4] Adelaide's marriage was apparently annulled c.1049/50 and another marriage was arranged for her, this time to Lambert II, Count of Lens, younger son of Eustace I, Count of Boulogne forming a new marital alliance between Normandy and Boulogne.[5] Lambert was killed in 1054 at Lille, aiding Baldwin V, Count of Flanders against Emperor Henry III.[6] Now widowed, Adelaide resided at Aumale, probably part of her dower from her first husband, Enguerrand, or part of a settlement after the capture of Guy of Ponthieu, her brother-in-law.[b][5] As a dowager Adelaide began a semi-religious retirement and became involved with the church at Auchy presenting them with a number of gifts.[5] In 1060 she was called upon again to form another marital alliance, this time to a younger man Odo, Count of Champagne.[7] Odo seems to have been something of a disappointment as he appears on only one of the Conqueror's charters and received no land in England; his wife being a tenant-in-chief in her own right.[7] In 1082 King William and Queen Matilda gave to the abbey of the Holy Trinity in Caen the town of Le Homme in the Cotentin with a provision to the Countess of Albamarla (Aumale), his sister, for a life tenancy.[8] In 1086, as Comitissa de Albatnarla,[8] as she was listed in the Domesday Book, was shown as having numerous holdings in both Suffolk and Essex,[9] one of the very few Norman noblewomen to have held lands in England at Domesday as a tenant-in-chief.[10] She was also given the lordship of Holderness which was held after her death by her 3rd husband, Odo, the by then disinherited Count of Champagne; the lordship then passed to their son, Stephen.[8] Adelaide died before 1090.[11] Family Adelaide married three times; first to Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu (died 1053)[12] by whom she had issue: Adelaide II, Countess of Aumale, m. William de Bréteuil, Lord of Bréteuil, son of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford.[8] She married secondly Lambert II, Count of Lens (died 1054),[11] they had a daughter: Judith of Lens, m. Waltheof Earl of Huntingdon and Northumbria.[13] Adelaide married thirdly in 1060 Odo, Count of Champagne (d. aft. 1096),[14] by whom she had a son: Stephen, Count of Aumale.

  
  

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  [S72] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998). [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Robert l; Male; Death: 02 JUL 1035; Spouse: Harlette De Falaise; Marriage: 1023 Of H, , , France; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 26 Sep 2004 [S112] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998). [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Robert l; Male; Death: 02 JUL 1035; Spouse: Harlette De Falaise; Marriage: 1023 Of Falaise,C, , , France; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 26 Sep 2004