Adela de Normandy Princess of England

   Another name for Adela was Alice of Normandy Princess of England.

  General Notes:

~ Blood Royal: Issue of the Kings and Queens of Medieval England 1066-1399, p.5, Adela, daughter of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders, married Étienne, comté de Blois et Chartres, son of Thibaut III and his second wife Alix de Crepi, daughter of Roul III. ¹⁰⁷⁸

~ Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. II, p. 277 ⁵²⁹

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Epistolæ: Adéla, Countess of Blois, Biography & Letters.

• Web Reference: Adela of Normany from Wikipedia.
"Adela of Normandy was, by marriage, Countess of Blois, Chartres, and Meaux. She was a daughter of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders. She married Stephen Henry, son and heir to the count of Blois, between 1080. and 1083, around her fifteenth birthday. She was also the mother of Stephen, King of England and Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester."

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Adela de Normandie.
Orderic Vitalis names "Adelizam et Constantiam, Ceciliam et Adalam" as the daughters of "Willermus Normanniæ dux" and his wife "Mathildem Balduini ducis Flandrensium filiam, neptem...ex sorore Henrici regis Francorum" [Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. II, Liber III, VI, p. 92]. Orderic Vitalis records the betrothal "apud Bretolium" of "Stephanus Blesensis palatinus comes" and "Guillelmo rege...Adelam eius filiam" and their marriage "apud Carnotum", dated to 1081 [Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. II, Liber V, XI, p. 393].

Adela married Étienne II comté de Blois, son of Thibaud III Comte de Blois et Champagne and Garsende du Maine. (Étienne II comté de Blois was born about 1045-1046 in Blois, Loir-Et-Cher ^180,883 and died on 19 May 1102 in Battle of Ramleh, Holy Land ^180,883.)