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Empress, ST of Italy Adelaide

Female - 999


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Empress, ST of Italy Adelaide died on 16 Dec 999 in Seltz, Alsace, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Occupation: Empress of Italy
    • To Lady Kathleen: Great GrandParent

    Notes:

    Occupation:
    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 qui t the royal presence. Throughout these troubles she remained gracious and loving and was canonised a hundred years after her death. 16 Dec is her feast day

    Adelaide married King of Germany Otto, I in 951. Otto (son of Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Henry, I and St. Matilda Saxony, of Saxony) was born on 23 Nov 912; died on 7 May 973. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Otto, II  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 955 in Saxony, Germany; died on 7 Dec 983.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Otto, II Descendancy chart to this point (1.Adelaide1) was born in 955 in Saxony, Germany; died on 7 Dec 983.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As : Otto II of Saxony
    • Occupation: Holy Roman Emperor
    • To Lady Kathleen: Great GrandParent

    Otto married Theophanu Skleros on 14 Apr 972. Theophanu (daughter of Constantine Skleros) was born in 956 in Constantinople, Turkey; died on 15 Jun 991. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 3. Princess of Saxony Matilda  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 978 in Saxony, Germany; died on 4 Nov 1025.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Princess of Saxony Matilda Descendancy chart to this point (2.Otto2, 1.Adelaide1) was born in 978 in Saxony, Germany; died on 4 Nov 1025.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Occupation: Princess of Saxony
    • To Lady Kathleen: Great GrandParent

    Matilda married Count of Palatine Ezzo in 992. Ezzo (son of Count of Palatine Hermann and Heilwig, Wife, of Palatine) was born in 955; died on 21 May 1034. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 4. Countess of Palatine Richeza  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1000 in Lorraine, France; died on 31 Mar 1063 in Saalfeld, Mulhausen, Thuringia, Germany.


Generation: 4

  1. 4.  Countess of Palatine Richeza Descendancy chart to this point (3.Matilda3, 2.Otto2, 1.Adelaide1) was born in 1000 in Lorraine, France; died on 31 Mar 1063 in Saalfeld, Mulhausen, Thuringia, Germany.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Occupation: Countess of Palatine
    • To Lady Kathleen: Great GrandParent

    Richeza married King of Poland Mieszko Wrymouth, II in 1013. Mieszko (son of King of Poland Boleslaw Wrymouth, I and Judith, of Hungary) was born in 990 in Poznan, Poland; died in 1034. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Gertrude, of Poland  Descendancy chart to this point died on 4 Jan 1107.
    2. 6. Duke of Poland Casimir Wrymouth, I  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1015 in , , , Poland; died on 28 Nov 1058 in , , , Poland.
    3. 7. Richza Wrymouth  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1015 in , , Krakow, Poland; died in 1052.