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Adelicia Lorraine De Brabante

1103-1151
Born: Brabant, Meuse, Lorraine, France
Died: Affligem Abbey, Afflingham, Flanders, Belgium

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    <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adeliza_of_Louvain<br><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Adeliza of Leuven (1103-1151), also called Adela and Aleidis, was Queen consort of the Kingdom of England from 1121 to 1135, the second wife of King Henry I of England. She was the daughter of Godfrey I of Leuven, Duke of Lower Lotharingia, Landgrave of Brabant and Count of Leuven and Brussels.<br><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>She married King Henry I on 2 Feb 1121 when she is thought to have been aged somewhere between fifteen and eighteen. Her husband was fifty three. It is believed that Henry&#39;s only reason for marrying again was his desire for a male heir. Despite holding the record for the largest number of illegitimate children of any British monarch, William Adelin was Henry&#39;s only legitimate male heir and had predeceased his father on 25 Nov 1120. Adeliza was reputably quite pretty and her father was Duke of Lower Lotharingia. These were the likely reasons she was chosen. However, no children were born during the almost 15 years of the marriage.<br><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Adeliza, unlike the other Anglo-Norman queens, played little part in the public life of the realm during her tenure as queen consort. Whether this is because of personal inclination, or because Henry preferred to keep her nearby in hopes of her conceiving, is unknown and probably unknowable. She did, however, leave a mark as a patron of literature and several works, including a bestiary, were dedicated to her. She is said to have commissioned a verse biography of King Henry; if she did it is no longer extant. (A bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Bestiaries were made popular in the Middle ages in illustrated volumes that described various real or imaginary animals, birds and even rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast were usually accompanied by a moral lesson. This reflected the belief that the world itself was literally the Word of God, and that every living thing had its own special meaning. For example, the pelican, which was believed to tear open its breast to bring its young to life with its own blood, was a living representation of Jesus. The bestiary, then, is also a reference to the symbolic language of animals in Western Christian art and literature.)<br><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>When her husband died on 1 Dec, 1135, Adeliza retired for a while to the monastery of Wilton, near Salisbury. As she was still young she came out of mourning some time before 1139 and married William d&#39;Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, who had been one of Henry&#39;s chief advisors. She brought with her a queen&#39;s dowry, including the great castle of Arundel, and Stephen of England created d&#39;Albini Earl of Arundel and Earl of Lincoln. Although her husband was a staunch supporter of King Stephen during the Anglo-Norman civil war, her own personal inclination may have been toward the cause of her step-daughter Empress Matilda. When the Empress sailed for England in 1139, it was to her step-mother that she appealed for shelter, and she landed near Arundel and was received as a guest of the former queen.<br><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Seven of Adeliza and William&#39;s children were to survive to adulthood. Among them William d&#39;Aubigny, 2nd Earl of Arundel, father to William d&#39;Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel who was one of the twenty-five guarantors of the Magna Carta. Among the descendants of this marriage came two girls destined to become tragic Queen consorts: Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. Adeliza also became an active patron of the church during her second marriage, giving property to Reading Abbey in honor of her former husband and to several other, smaller foundations.<br><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Adeliza spent her final years in the abbey of Affligem (Landgraviat of Brabant, German Empire), where she died on April 23, 1151. She was buried in the abbey church next to her father, duke Godfrey I of Leuven.<br><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>One of Adeliza&#39;s brothers, Jocelin (Gosuinus), came to England and married Agnes de Percy, heiress of the Percy family. Adeliza also gave a dowry to one of her cousins when she married in England. Although it is clear that the former queen and Josecelin were very close, he may actually have been an illegitimate son of Adeliza&#39;s father and thus her half-brother. His children took their name from their mother&#39;s lineage, and their descendants include the medieval Earls of Northumberland.<br><br>http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cousin/html/p103.htm#i6792<br>Adelicia de Louvain retired to a nunnery in Afflighem, Flanders. Also called Adelicia Regina. Annals of Monte Fernando 1121: &quot;Henricus rex desponsavit Adelinam filiam Godeline.&quot; Queen of England between 2 Feb 1121 and 1 Dec 1135. She became the Dowager Queen of England on the death of her husband, King Henri I, as stepmother of Henri&#39;s heir, his daughter Matilda on 1 Dec 1135. Dowager Queen of England between 1 Dec 1135 and 23 April 1151. She died on 23 April 1151 in Affigham, Flanders, France. Adelicia de Louvain was buried in Afflighem, Flanders.<br><br>Bill Craw had: Adelicia Princess of Brabant b: 1102 Of, , Brabant, The Netherlands d: 23 Apr 1151 , Affligham, Flanders, France burial: 23 Apr 1151 Reading Abbey, Reading, Berkshire, England (if is information is true; how did they get her body from Flanders in Frace to Reading in England, in the same day?) AFN: 9FTJ-61 and LDS information, marriage to Henri 24 Jan 1120/1121, marriage to William d&#39;Aubigny 1138.<br><br>Bill Craw had: Adeliza Dowager AFN: FLGV-PB</span>

  • Story: Adelicia's Second Marriage

    <span style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px"><p style="margin-: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.5em">As she was still young, Adeliza came out of mourning some time before 1139 and married William d&#39;Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, who had been one of Henry&#39;s chief advisers. She brought with her a queen&#39;s&nbsp;dowry, including the great castle of Arundel. The new king, Stephen of England, created d&#39;Aubigny, Earl of Arundel and Earl of Lincoln.</p><p style="margin-: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.5em">Although her husband was a staunch supporter of Stephen during the Anglo-Norman civil war, her personal inclination may have been toward the cause of Empress Matilda, who was her stepdaughter. When the empress sailed for England in 1139, it was to Adeliza that she appealed for shelter. She therefore landed near Arundel and was received as a guest of the former queen. The stone apartments constructed to accommodate the empress and her entourage survive to this day.</p><p style="margin-: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.5em">Adeliza and William had seven children surviving to adulthood. All were born at Castle Arundel in Sussex, but their dates are uncertain: William d&#39;Aubigny, (1140) 2nd Earl of Arundel; Olivia (1141); Godfrey (1143); Alice (1145); Agatha (1147); Rayner (1149); and Henry (1151).</p><p style="margin-: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.5em">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.5em">from New World Encyclopedia&nbsp;</p></span>

  • Story: Wife Of Henry I Of England

    She married Henry I King of England.&nbsp; When she was widowed by him she married William D&#39;Aubigny.

  • Story: Story

    <p>William Aubigny was her 2nd husband.&nbsp; When she was 19 she was married to 52 year old Henry I Beauclerc.</p>

 
 
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