Adelaide of Tours

Female Abt 820 - Abt 866  (~ 46 years)


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  1. 1.  Adelaide of Tours was born Abt 820 (daughter of Hugh of Tours and Bava); died Abt 866.

    Notes:

    Adelaide of Tours (c.820-c.866) was a daughter of Hugh of Tours and his wife Bava.

    She married first Conrad I, Count of Auxerre with whom she had two children, Hugh and Conrad the Younger.

    After his death she probably married Robert the Strong, whose children Odo and Robert I of France are perhaps hers. Since Robert was born in 866, well after her first husband died, he is more likely to be her offspring. His grandson was Hugh Capet, the first King of the House of Capet.

    Adelaide — Conrad, I Count of Auxerre. Conrad (son of Welf, I of Altorf and Hedwig) died 876. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Conrad, II Duke of Transjurane Burgundy

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Hugh of Tours was born Abt 780; died 20 Oct 837.

    Notes:

    Hugh (or Hugo) (c. 780 - 20 October 837) was the count of Tours and Sens during the reigns of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, until his disgrace in February 828. He was probably a son of Count Haicho of the House of the Etichonen.

    Hugh had many possessions in Alsace, including the Sens. He also held the convent of St-Julien-d'Auxerre. He appeared in 811 as an envoy or ambasciator to Constantinople with Haido, Bishop of Basel, and Aio, Duke of Friuli, to renew the Pax Nicephori. In 821, he allied himself by marriage to the royal family; his daughter Ermengard married Louis' son Lothair. In 824, he took part in an expedition in Brittany and, in 826, he accompanied the Empress Judith to the baptism of Harald Klak in Ingelheim. His other daughter, Adelaide, married Conrad I, Count of Auxerre (died 862). She is sometimes said to have taken as her second husband Robert the Strong. She was dead by 886, when Walahfrid Strabo included her epitaph in a poem of his.

    In 827, Hugh, along with Matfrid of Orléans, was commissioned by Louis to recruit an army with his son Pepin I of Aquitaine and repel the invasion of the Marca Hispanica by the Moslem general Abu Marwan. Hugh and Matfrid delayed until the threat had passed. For this he was given the nickname Timidus or the Timid. Barcelona being the greatest military accomplishment of Louis' career, the Spanish March meant much to him and Hugh and Matfrid found themselves greatly disfavoured at court. They were deposed in February of the next year.

    He remained very influential as the father-in-law of Lothair. He joined Matfrid in inciting Lothair to rebellion and had all his lands confiscated in Gaul. He remained highly influential in Italy, where Lothair created him "duke of Locate" (dux de Locate).

    Hugh — Bava. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Bava
    Children:
    1. Ermengarde of Tours died 20 Mar 850/51.
    2. 1. Adelaide of Tours was born Abt 820; died Abt 866.