Adelheid of Savona

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Tomb in Patti Cathedral

Adelheid von Savona , also Adelayda, Adelaydis, Adelasia (* 1072 , † April 18, 1118 in Patti ) was Countess and Regent of Sicily and Queen of Jerusalem .

Life

Adelheid was a daughter of Margrave Manfred von Savona . In 1089 she married Roger I , Count of Sicily . She was Roger's third wife. With him she had two sons, Simon (1093) and Roger (1095). According to the report of Gaufredus Malaterra , two sisters of Adelheid were betrothed to the sons of Rogers I from his previous marriage, Gaufredus and Jordanus. Since Gaufredus died of leprosy before reaching maturity , only Jordanus' marriage could be celebrated.

After the death of her husband in 1101, she exercised the rule first for Simon (until his death in 1105) and then for Roger, until the latter took over the rule as Roger II himself in 1112. A series of mostly Greek documents, in which she is called Adelasia, documented her successful government, in which she knew how to do justice to the various ethnic units. While Roger I did not have a permanent seat of government, Adelheid chose Palermo as his residence.

Adelheid then moved to Jerusalem , where she married Baldwin I , King of Jerusalem , in 1113 . After she was ostracized by this for domestic political reasons in 1117, she returned to Sicily, where she died in 1118. She is buried in the Cathedral of S. Bartolomeo in Patti .

literature

  • Hubert Houben : Adelaide “del Vasto” nella storia del regno di Sicilia. In: Itinerari di ricerca storica. Annual pubblicazione del Dipartimento di Studi Storici dal Medioevo all'Età Contemporanea dell'Università di Lecce. Vol. 4, 1990, ISSN  1121-1156 , pp. 9-40.
  • Vera von Falkenhausen : On the reign of Countess Adelasia del Vasto in Calabria and Sicily (1101–1112). In: Ihor Ševčenko, Irmgard Hutter (ed.): Αετος. Studies in honor of Cyril Mango. Presented to him on April 14, 1998. Teubner, Stuttgart et al. 1998, ISBN 3-519-07440-0 , 87-115.
  • Horst Enzensberger : Adelheid, Gfn. v. Sicily . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , column 146 f.

Web links

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annotation

  1. ↑ Gaufredus Malaterra: De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius , lib. IV, cap. 14; cap. 18 reports the death of Jordan, lord of Syracuse, in 1092
personal data
SURNAME Adelheid of Savona
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adelasia del Vasto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of Sicily, Queen of Jerusalem
DATE OF BIRTH 1072
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1118
Place of death Patti