Adela of Flanders

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Adela of Flanders , in the southern Italian sources Ala or Alana (* around 1064; † April 1115 in Apulia ) was Queen of Denmark by marriage , later Duchess of Apulia and Calabria .

Life

Adela was the eldest daughter of Count Robert I the Friesian of Flanders (1035-1093) and the Saxon nobleman Gertrud († 1113), daughter of Duke Bernhard II of Saxony from the Billunger family .

In 1080 in Odense Adela married the Danish King Canute IV. The Saint (1040-1086), second son of King Sven Estridsson . Three children were born from their marriage:

  • Charles I the Good (1085–1127), Count of Flanders ⚭ 1117 Margaret of Clermont
  • Ingrid (1086–1130) ⚭ Folke, Swedish Jarl
  • Cäcilie (1087–1131) ⚭ Erich von Gotland

After her husband and his brother Benedikt were slain in Odense on July 10, 1086 in the church of St. Alban he built, she fled back to Flanders with her children . At the beginning of 1092 she married the Duke of Apulia and Calabria , Roger Borsa (1061–1111), second son of Duke Robert Guiskard from the house of Hauteville and Sikelgaitas of Salerno. From this marriage three sons were born:

  • Ludwig († 1094)
  • Guiskard († 8/1108)
  • Wilhelm II (1095–1127)

Alana initially ruled Wilhelm, but the sources for this time are very sparse.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Romuald von Salerno , Chronicon , ed. CA Garufi p. 200, who reports on the marriage and the children. In May 1092 Alana is mentioned for the first time in a diploma.
  2. ^ The month after Romualdi Salernitani chronicon, ed.Garufi, p. 207
  3. ^ Romuald von Salerno, Chronicon , ed. CA Garufi p. 204.

literature

  • Ferdinand Chalandon , Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicile , 2 vols. Paris 1907 (Ndr. New York 1960), here vol. I, pp. 298f., 311, 313, 317.
  • Hubert Houben , Il "libro del capitolo" del monastero della SS.Trinità di Venosa (Cod. Casin. 334): una testimonianza del Mezzogiorno normanno , Galatina 1984, p. 133.
  • Erich Brandenburg: The descendants of Charlemagne ; Publishing house Degener & Co Neustadt an der Aisch 1998

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personal data
SURNAME Adela of Flanders
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ala, Alana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Queen of Denmark, later Duchess of Apulia and Calabria
DATE OF BIRTH around 1064
DATE OF DEATH April 1115
Place of death Apulia