Adelaide of Tours

Female Abt 820 - Abt 866  (~ 46 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Adelaide of Tours was born Abt 820; 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. 2. Conrad, II Duke of Transjurane Burgundy  Descendancy chart to this point


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Conrad, II Duke of Transjurane Burgundy Descendancy chart to this point (1.Adelaide1)

    Notes:

    Conrad II the Younger was the Count of Auxerre from 864 until his death. He was a son of Conrad I of Auxerre, and Adelaide of Tours; an older brother of Hugh the Abbot; and a member of the Bavarian branch of the Welfs.

    In 858, at the coaxing of Charles the Bald, his cousin, he and his brother betrayed Louis the German when he sent them on an espionage mission and went over to Charles, who rewarded them handsomely because he had lost his Bavarian honores. He acted as Duke of Transjurane (Upper) Burgundy from then until about 864.

    He married Judith, daughter of Eberhard of Friuli, and later Waldrada of Worms, by whom he left a son, Rudolf, who later became King of Transjurane Burgundy, and a daughter, Adelaide of Auxerre.
    Conrad II the Younger was the Count of Auxerre from 864 until his death. He was a son of Conrad I of Auxerre, and Adelaide; an older brother of Hugh the Abbot; and a member of the Bavarian branch of the Welfs.

    In 858, at the coaxing of Charles the Bald, his cousin, he and his brother betrayed Louis the German when he sent them on an espionage mission and went over to Charles, who rewarded them handsomely because he had lost his Bavarian honores. He acted as Duke of Transjurane (Upper) Burgundy from then until about 864.

    He married Judith, daughter of Eberhard of Friuli, and later Waldrada of Worms, by whom he left a son, Rudolf, who later became King of Transjurane Burgundy, and a daughter, Adelaide of Auxerre.

    Conrad — Judith of Fuili. (daughter of Eberhard of Fuili, Markgraf of Fuili and Gisela d'Aquitaine) [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 3. Adelaide of Auxerre  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 4. Rudolph, I of Burgundy  Descendancy chart to this point was born 859; died 25 Oct 911.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Adelaide of Auxerre Descendancy chart to this point (2.Conrad2, 1.Adelaide1)

    Adelaide married Richard, Duke of Burgundy 888. Richard (son of Bivin of Gorze and Richildis) died 921; was buried Sens. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 5. Adelaide of Burgundy  Descendancy chart to this point

  2. 4.  Rudolph, I of Burgundy Descendancy chart to this point (2.Conrad2, 1.Adelaide1) was born 859; died 25 Oct 911.

    Notes:

    Rudolph I (859 - October 25, 912) was King of (Upper or Transjurane) Burgundy from his election in 888 until his death.

    Rudolph belonged to the elder Welf family and was the son of Conrad, Count of Auxerre and Waldrada of Worms. From his father he inherited the lay abbacy of St Maurice en Valais, making him the most powerful magnate in Upper Burgundy - present-day western Switzerland and the Franche-Comté.

    After the deposition and death of Charles the Fat, the nobles and leading clergy of Upper Burgundy met at St Maurice and elected Rudolph as king. Apparently on the basis of this election, Rudolph claimed the whole of Lotharingia, taking much of modern Lorraine and Alsace - but his claim was contested by Arnulf of Carinthia, the new king of East Francia or Germany, who rapidly forced Rudolph to abandon Lotharingia in return for recognition as king of Burgundy. However, hostilities between Rudolph and Arnulf seem to have continued intermittently until 894.

    Rudolph's relationships with his other neighbours were friendlier. His sister Adelaide married Richard the Justiciar, duke of Burgundy (the present day Burgundy, part of west Francia), and his daughters, another Adelaide, married Louis the Blind of Provence (Lower Burgundy), and Willa, married Boso of Tuscany.

    Rudolph was succeeded as king of Burgundy by his son, Rudolph II. Rudolf I's widow, queen Guilla, married in 912 Hugh of Arles.

    This Rudolph is frequently confused with his nephew Rudolph of France, who was the second duke of Burgundy and ninth king of France.

    Rudolph — Guilla of Provence. Guilla died Bef 924. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 6. Rudolph, II of Burgundy  Descendancy chart to this point died 11 Jul 937.


Generation: 4

  1. 5.  Adelaide of Burgundy Descendancy chart to this point (3.Adelaide3, 2.Conrad2, 1.Adelaide1)

    Adelaide — Reginar, II Count of Hainaut. Reginar (son of Reginar, Duke of Lorraine and Hersinda) was born 890; died 932. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 7. Reginar, III Count of Hainaut  Descendancy chart to this point was born Abt 920, Brabant Wallon, Belgium; died 973, Bohemia.

  2. 6.  Rudolph, II of Burgundy Descendancy chart to this point (4.Rudolph3, 2.Conrad2, 1.Adelaide1) died 11 Jul 937.

    Notes:

    Rudolph II (died July 11, 937) was king of Upper Burgundy (912-937), Lower Burgundy (Provence) (933-937), and Italy (effective, 922-926-claim abandoned 933). He was the son of Rudolph I, king of Upper Burgundy, and it is presumed that his mother was his father's known wife, Guilla of Provence. He married Bertha of Swabia.

    Following his ascent to the throne in 912, Rudolph was asked by several Italian nobles to intervene in Italy on their behalf against Emperor Berengar in 922. Having entered Italy, he was crowned King of the Lombards at Pavia. In 923, he defeated Berengar at Piacenza; Berengar was murdered the following year, possibly at the instigation of Rudolph. The king then ruled Upper Burgundy and Italy together, residing alternately in both kingdoms.

    However, in 926 the Italian nobility turned against him and requested that Hugh of Arles, the effective ruler of Provence (or Lower Burgundy), rule them instead. Rudolph returned to Upper Burgundy to protect himself, assuring Hugh's coronation as King of Italy in the process. The Italians then switched sides again, declaring that they wished for Rudolph to reclaim the throne. To prevent this, Hugh and Rudolph signed a treaty in 933, granting Rudolph rule of Lower Burgundy in exchange for his renunciation of all claims on the Italian throne. He married his daughter Adelaide to Hugh's son Lothair. The two Burgundian kingdoms unified, Rudolph ruled until his death in 937. He was succeeded by Conrad.

    Rudolph married Bertha of Swabia 922. Bertha (daughter of Burchard, II Duke of Swabia and Regelinda) was born Abt 907; died 02 Jan 965/66. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 8. Conrad, I of Burgundy  Descendancy chart to this point was born Abt 925; died 10 Oct 993.