Adelais d'Anjou Vermandois

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• Name: Adele of Meaux
• Reference Number: 8075

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Vermandois-351

BIOGRAPHY FROM GENEALOGICS.ORG:

Adelais was born about 950, the daughter of Robert, comte de Meaux et (jure uxoris) Troyes, and Adelheid de Bourgogne, heiress of Troyes.

Adelais married Geoffroy I, comte d'Anjou, son of Foulques II 'the Good', comte d'Anjou, and Gerberge de Tours. They had two daughters and a son, all of whom would have progeny.

Adelais died on 21 July 987.

Family/Spouse: Geoffrey I Comte d'Anjou Anjou. Geoffrey was born about 938 in Anjou, France; died on 21 Jul 987 in Anjou, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Ermengarde of Anjou
• Reference Number: 8061

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BIOGRAPHY FROM GENEALOGICS.ORG

Ermengarde-Girberge of Anjou, also called Ermengarde of Anjou, was the daughter of Geoffrey I, comte d'Anjou, and Adelais de Vermandois. She is called Ermengarde in northern (French) sources, but at least one early southern source calls her Girberge. Angevins were known to give daughters two names, as evidenced by her aunt, called Adelaide-Blanche.

In 973 Ermengard-Girberge married Conon I 'le Tort', duc de Bretagne, son of Judicael Berengar, comte de Rennes. Of their four children, Geoffrey I and Judith would have progeny. Her husband Conon opposed her father and brother Foulques III even though the marriage was apparently designed for a political alliance between Anjou and Brittany. Even after Conon had been killed by Foulques at the second Battle of Conquereuil in 992, and during the period 992-994 when Ermengarde-Girberge was regent for their son Geoffrey, she remained loyal to her brother Foulques. In 992 following the interests of her brother, and functioning as regent, she accepted Capetian over-lordship for Rennes while rejecting that of Eudes I, comte de Blois.

About 1000 her brother Foulques arranged for his widowed sister to marry secondly Guillaume IV Taillefer, comte d'Angoulême, one of his close allies, son of Arnauld Mancer, comte d'Angoulême, and his first wife Raingarde. They had about six sons of whom Geoffroy is recorded with progeny. The eldest son Alduin II married Alaisia de Gasçogne and had progeny, and a son Foulques also married, though the details are not recorded.

Ermengarde-Girberge is thought to have died after 1 May 1041, though some sources suggest that she died about 1024.

Ermengarde married Conon de Bretagne Rennes after 992 in France. Conon was born about 950 in Bretagne; died on 27 Jun 992 in Conquereuil, Bretagne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Judith of Britain
• Reference Number: 8096

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BIOGRAPHY FROM GENEALOGICS:

Judith was born in Brittany about 982, the daughter of Conon I 'le Tort', duc de Bretagne, and Ermengarde d'Anjou. About the year 1000 she became the first wife of Richard II 'the Good', duke of Normandy, son of Richard I 'the Fearless', duke of Normandy, and his wife Gunnor. They had six children of whom four would have progeny, including Richard III and Robert, known as 'the Devil', who would both be dukes of Normandy.

About 1010 Judith founded the abbey of Bernay, thanks to a dower from her husband during their marriage. She died in Normandy on 17 June 1017, and was buried in the abbey she had founded. Since the Revolution her grave remains in the Church of Notre Dame de la Couture in Bernay.

Family/Spouse: Richard II Duke of Normandy. Richard was born on 23 Aug 963 in Évreux, Normandie, France; died on 28 Aug 1026 in Fécamp, Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Robert The Devil
• Reference Number: 8059

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Normandie-43

BIOGRAPHY FROM GENEALOGICS.ORG:
Robert was the second son of Richard II 'the Good', duke of Normandy and Judith de Bretagne, daughter of Conon I 'le Tort', duc de Bretagne and Ermengarde d'Anjou.

When his father died in 1027, Robert's elder brother Richard succeeded, while he became count of Hiémois. When Richard died a year later, there were great suspicions that Robert had Richard murdered, the origin of his epithet, Robert 'le diable' (Robert 'the Devil'). Robert aided Henri I of France against Henri's rebellious brother and mother, and for his help he was given the territory of the Vexin. He also intervened in the affairs of Flanders, supported England's Edward 'the Confessor', who was then in exile at Robert's court, and sponsored monastic reform in Normandy.

By his mistress Harlette/Herleve, daughter of Fulbert de Falaise, Robert was father of two children, the future William 'the Conqueror' and Adela of Normandy, both of whom would have progeny.

After making his illegitimate son William his heir, Robert set out on pilgrimage to Jerusalem. According to the _Gesta Normannorum Ducum_ he travelled by way of Constantinople, reached Jerusalem and died on the return journey at Nicaea in Turkey on 22 July 1035. His son William, aged about eight, succeeded him.

According to the chronicler William of Malmesbury (1080-1143), around 1086 William sent a mission to Constantinople and Nicaea, charging it with bringing his father's body back to be buried in Normandy. Permission was granted, but having travelled as far as Apulia (Italy) on the return journey, the envoys learned that William had died. They then decided to re-inter Robert's body in Italy.

Family/Spouse: Herleva de Mortain Falaise. Herleva was born about 1003 in Falaise, Normandie, France; died about 1055 in Mortain, Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]