Adele De Flanders
1065-1115
Born: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Died: Apulia, Italy
<font color="#000000">Adela of Flanders</font><div><font color="#000000">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</font><!-- start content --><p><font color="#000000"><strong>Adela of Flanders</strong> (c. 1064-1115) was a mediaeval Danish Queen and Italian Duchess and regent, Queen Consort of King </font><font color="#000000">Canute IV of Denmark</font><font color="#000000">, and Duchess consort of Duke Roger Borsa of Apulia, and then minor regent of </font><font color="#000000">Apulia</font><font color="#000000"> in 1111-1115 as mother and guardian of </font><font color="#000000">William II of Apulia</font><font color="#000000">. Mother of </font><font color="#000000">Charles the Good</font><font color="#000000"> of Flanders.</font></p><p></p><span><font color="#000000">Biography</font></span><p><font color="#000000">Adela was born the daughter of </font><font color="#000000">Robert I, Count of Flanders</font><font color="#000000">, and Gertrude of Holland. She married king </font><font color="#000000">Canute IV of Denmark</font><font color="#000000"> in 1080 with whom she had a son, the later </font><font color="#000000">Charles the Good</font><font color="#000000">. When Canute was assassinated in 1086, she fled with her son to Flanders. She stayed in the court of her father and brother </font><font color="#000000">Robert II</font><font color="#000000"> until 1092, when she left for Italy to marry </font><font color="#000000">Roger Borsa</font><font color="#000000">, duke of Apulia. She acted as a regent for their son </font><font color="#000000">William II</font><font color="#000000"> at the death of Roger Borsa from 1111 until he came of age. Her son by the first marriage, </font><font color="#000000">Blessed</font><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#000000">Charles the Good</font><font color="#000000">, was Count of Flanders from </font><font color="#000000">1119</font><font color="#000000"> to </font><font color="#000000">1127</font><font color="#000000">.</font></p><p></p><span><font color="#000000">References</font></span><ul><li><font color="#000000">" Women in power 1100-1150" from Guide2womenleaders.com, last accessed January 16, 2007</font></li></ul></div>