CHAMPAGNE, Countess Alix Adele

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• Name	CHAMPAGNE, Alix Adele
  Prefix	Countess
  Christening	1140	Temple de Paris, Le Chesnay, Yvelines, Île-de-France, Francia
  Birth	11 Jun 1140	Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France
  Gender	Female
  Burial	Jun 1206	Pontigny, Yonne, Bourgogne, France
  Death	4 Jun 1206	Isle, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France
  WAC	18 Mar 1921
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  _TAG	Temple
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  Person ID	I46826	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	BLOIS, Count Thibaud II ,   b. 2 Apr 1090, Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, Franced. 10 Jan 1152, Lagny Sur Marne, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France (Age 61 years)
  Mother	CARINTHIA, Countess Mathilde ,   b. Abt 1097, Kärnten, Austria Kärnten, Austriad. 13 Dec 1161, Fontrevault Abbey, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	1123
  Family ID	F15673	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	FRANCE, King Louis VIII ,   b. 1119, Rheims, Marne, France Rheims, Marne, Franced. 18 Sep 1180, Paris, France (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	13 Nov 1160
  Children	1 son and 2 daughters
  + 1. FRANCE, Princess Alix ,   b. 4 Oct 1160, Paris, Île-de-France, France Paris, Île-de-France, Franced. 18 Jul 1221, Angoulême, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France (Age 60 years) + 2. CAPET, Philippe Augustus II ,   b. 21 Aug 1165, Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, Ile-de-France, France Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, Ile-de-France, Franced. 14 Jul 1223, Mantes, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France (Age 57 years) + 3. FRANCE, Princess Agnes Anna ,   b. 1171, Paris, Seine, France Paris, Seine, Franced. Abt 1240 (Age 69 years)
  Family ID	F24110	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Adela of Champagne (French: Adèle; c. 1140-4 June 1206), also known as Adelaide and Alix, was Queen of France as the third wife of Louis VII. She was the daughter of Theobald II, Count of Champagne, and Matilda of Carinthia, and was named after her grandmother, Adela of Normandy. Louis and Adela married on 18 October 1160, five weeks after his previous wife, Constance of Castile, died in childbirth. Queen Adèle was the mother of Louis VII's only son, Philip II, and of the Byzantine empress Agnes. Adela was active in the political life of the kingdom, along with her brothers Henry I, Theobald V, and Guillaume aux Blanches Mains. Henry and Theobald were married to daughters of Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Adela and her brothers felt their position threatened when the heiress of Artois, Isabella of Hainault, married Adèle's son Philip. Adèle formed an alliance with Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy, and Philip of Flanders, and even tried to interest Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. War broke out in 1181, and relations became so bad that Philip attempted to divorce Isabella in 1184. Although her power decreased after the accession of Philip in 1180, Queen Adela acted as regent in 1190 while Philip was away on the Third Crusade. She returned to the shadows when he returned in 1192 but participated in the founding of many abbeys. Queen Adela died on 4 June 1206 in Paris, Île-de-France, France, and was buried in the church of Pontigny Abbey near Auxerre.