Saint Adélaide Empress di Italia
- Born: 931-932
- Marriage: Otto I "the Great" Holy Roman Emperor in Oct 951
- Died: 16 Dec 999, Seltz, Alsace, France at age 68
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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.
Adélaide married Otto I "the Great" Holy Roman Emperor, son of Heinrich I "the Fowler" Holy Roman Emperor and Saint Matilda of Ringleheim, in Oct 951. (Otto I "the Great" Holy Roman Emperor was born on 23 Nov 912 in Saxony and died on 7 May 973 in Memleben, Saxony, Germany.)
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