Adeliza de Normandy

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Adelaide or Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror, being the illegal daughter of Robert, Duke of the Normans, by Herleve or Harlotte, daughter of Fulbert or Robert, a pelliparius of Falaise, and is mentioned in the Domesday Book as "Comitissa de Albamarla," and as holding some manors in Essex and Suffolk. In 1082, William, King of the English, and Maud, his wife, gave to the Abbey of La Trinité at Caen the bourg of Le Homme (de Hulmo) in Ctentin, "sed et Comitissa A. de Albamarla concedente eo videlicet pacto ut ipsa teneret in via sua."

Adelaide, married as her first husband, Enguerrand II, comté de Ponthieu, who died without male issue when he was killed in 1053. Her second husband, Lambert, comte de Lens en Artois, who also died without male issue and was killed in 1054. For her third husband, she married Eudes, the disinherited comté de Champagne, who had taken refuge in Normandy. Adeliza died before 1090.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Aumale), Vol. I, pp. 351-352

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands.
Robert de Torigny names "Aeliz" as the daughter of Duke Robert II "de alia concubina" from Herleve [227]. She retained the title Comtesse d'Aumâle after her first marriage. The foundation charter of Saint-Martin d´Auchy names "Engueranni consulis qui filius fuit Berte supradicti Guerinfridi filie et Adelidis comitisse uxoris sue sororis…Willelmi Regis Anglorum" [228]. Her second marriage is deduced from the same charter of Saint-Martin d´Auchy which also names "Judita comitissa domine supradicte filia"[229]. Orderic Vitalis calls her "the king's sister" when referring to her marriage to Eudes Comte de Troyes [230]. She married, as her first husband, Enguerrand II comte de Montreuil, son of Hugues de Ponthieu comte de Montreuil and his wife Berthe d'Aumale. Her second husband was Lambert de Boulogne, comte de Lens, son of Eustache comte de Boulogne and his wife Mathilde de Louaine. Adeliza's third husband was Eudes III comte de Troyes et d'Aumale, son of Etienne I comte de troyes and his wife Adela.

Adeliza married Lambert Comte de Lens et Artois, son of Eustace I Comte de Boulogne and Maud de Louvain.⁵²⁹ (Lambert Comte de Lens et Artois was born in Lens, Normandy, France and died in 1054 in Battle of Lille, Phalampin, France ⁵²⁹.)

Adeliza next married Enguerran comte de Montreüil, son of Hugues II comte de Montreüil and Bertha d' Aumâle.

Adeliza next married Eudes comté de Champagne et Aumale, son of Étienne comté de Champagne and Adela. (Eudes comté de Champagne et Aumale was born about 1037 in Champagne, France and died after 1115.)