Alice de Tours 
Alice was born in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France. Alice's father was William I of Normandy and her mother was Matilda Forrester. Her paternal grandparents were Robert I of Normandy and Herleve of Falasia; her maternal grandparents were Baudouin V of Flanders and Adele (Alix) Capet of France. She had four brothers and three sisters, named Richard, Henry I 'Beauclerc' of, Robert "Curthose" of, William, Gundreda of, Cicily and Constance. She died in Charente-Maritime, France. She was buried in Abby of Holy Trinity, Caen, Normandy.General Notes
Adela, French ADÉLE (b. 1062?--d. 1137), daughter of William I the Conqueror of England and his wife, Matilda of Flanders, and mother of Stephen, king of England, whose right to the throne derived through her. She was married to Stephen, earl of Meaux and Brie, in 1080 at Breteuil. Upon the death of his father in 1090, her husband succeeded to the earldom of Blois and Chartres. She appears to have played an active role in the administration of her husband's lands, regularly witnessing his charters, took an active interest in civil and ecclesiastical affairs, and was instrumental in rebuilding the catherdral of Chartres in stone. Having inherited her father's appetite and ability to rule, she became regent in 1095 when she persuaded her popular but weak-willed husband to join the First Crusade to the Holy Land. Although in charge of the central funds of the Crusade, Stephen deserted at Antioch in 1098, understandably enough in face of overwhelming odds. Unfortunately for his reputation, the crusaders survived and succeeded in capturing Jerusalem in 1099. After Stephen's return home in 1099, Adela waged a sustained campaign of bullying and moral blackmail that extended into their bedroom where, between intercourse, she would urge Stephen to think of his reputation and return to the Holy Land. In the end, her nagging worked and Stephen departed east once more in 1101, to meet a satisfactorily noble death at Ramlah in 1102. No longer a coward's wife but more congenially a hero's widow, Adela continued to rule Blois-Chartres during the minority of her sons. Anselm, her guest and teacher in 1097, was often entertained by her during 1103 and 1105 and she affected a temporary reconciliation between him and her brother, Henry I, who lavished patronage on her second son, Stephen, and appointed a third, Henry, bishop of Winchester, the richest see in England. In 1107 Adela entertained Pope Pascal during Easter and in the following year was hostess to Bohemund of Antioch. She made her son Theobald her successor in 1109, and persuaded him to join her brother Henry I against France in 1117. In 1120 she retired to the abbey of Marcigny-sur-Loire where she died in 1137. By all accounts a forceful personality, Adela's qualities were not uncommon among women artistocrats, although more often they found an outlet in the running of nunneries. Adela's secular career, as de facto ruler for more than a decade of one of the most powerful principalities of northern France, is exceptional testimony to the power of breeding as well as to her own determination. She was a benevolent patroness of churches and monasteries. Although married to a French count and living to see a son crowned king of England, she chose to be buried beside her mother at Caen under an inscription 'Adela, filia regis'. She was always the Conqueror's daughter. [Sources: Who's Who in Early Medieval England, Christopher Tyerman, Shepheard-Walwyn, Ltd., London, 1996; Encyclopædia Britannica CD, 1997]
The Directory of Royal Genealogy: Became a nun at Cluniac Priory in widowhood
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Wikipedia.org - Stephen II, Count of Blois
Ancestry - Michael Holler
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.BET 885 AND 900 in Normandy, France d.17 DEC 942 in Normandy, France (murdered by Arnulf of Flanders)
- b.~ 0935 in Fecamp, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France d.20 NOV 996 in Fecamp, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0911 in Bretagne, Indre-Et-Loire, Provence, France d.~ 0972
- b.0959 in Normandy, France d.26 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0958 d.0988
- b.BET 936 AND 952 in Denmark d.1031 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0930 in Denmark d.0982
- b.~ 1008 in Normandy, France d.02 Jul 1035 in Nice, Bithynia
- b.< 0931 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France d.~ 0970
- b.~ 0927 in Bretagne, France d.27 JUN 992 in Killed in action at Conquereuil
- b.BET 900 AND 931 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France d.5 MAY 984 in Reims, Champagne, France
- b.~ 0982 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France d.16 Nov 1017 in Normandie, France
- b.BET 938 AND 940 in Anjou, France d.21 JUL 987 in Killed in action
- b.~ 0962 in Anjou, France d.> 1010 in Anjou, France
- b.~ 0934 in Donzy, Troyes, France d.BET 982 AND 984 in Angers
- b.14 Oct 1028 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France d.10 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Rouen, Normandy
- b.BET 908 AND 922 d.0986
- b.~ 0936 d.BET 1012 AND 1033
- d.18 Sep 1000
- b.BET 976 AND 978 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.UNKNOWN in Falaise, Calvados, France
- b.~ 1012 in Falaise, Normandy, France d.BET 1050 AND 1060 in Mortaigne, S-Mnch, France
- b.~ 0980 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1062 AND 1067 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.8 MAR 1137/38 in Charente-Maritime, France
- b.BET 933 AND 940 in Flanders, Belgium d.1 JAN 961/62
- b.Dec 0961 in Flanders, Belgium d.30 MAR 988 in Flanders, France
- b.BET 941 AND 958 in Saxony, Germany d.25 May 1008
- b.BET 968 AND 980 in Flanders, France d.30 May 1036 in Flanders, France
- b.BET 901 AND 928 in Italy d.6 JUL 966 in Bamberg (an imperial prisoner)
- b.BET 945 AND 965 in Luxemburg, West Europe d.26 JAN 1002/03 in Gent, Belgium
- b.~ 0910 in Tuscany, Italy d.> 0963 in Bamburgh, Germany
- b.1012 in Lille d.10 Sep 1067 in Lille, France
- b.BET 919 AND 922 in Luxembourg, Netherlands d.28 OCT 998
- b.BET 958 AND 965 in Moselgau d.06 Oct 1019 in Luxembourg, Belgium
- b.BET 923 AND 937 in Luxembourg d.13 DEC 992
- b.BET 986 AND 988 in Luxembourg d.21 FEB 1029/30 in Flanders, France
- b.BET 914 AND 925 in Bavaria d.0992
- b.BET 958 AND 970 in Gleiberg Castle, Lahn Valley, Germany d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 918 AND 956 in Avalgau, Germany d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1031 AND 1032 in Flanders d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.BET 895 AND 915 in Paris, Seine, France d.9 JUN 956 in Deurden
- b.BET 938 AND 941 in Paris, Seine, France d.24 OCT 996 in Les Juifs, Near Chartres or in Paris
- b.~ 0910 in Saxony, Germany d.5 OCT 965 in Aix-La-Chapelle
- b.27 MAR 972 in Orleans, Loiret, France d.20 Jul 1031 in Meulan, Yvelines, Isle-de-France, France
- b.BET 915 AND 929 in Aquitaine, France d.0995 in St. Cyrien, Poitiers, France
- b.BET 945 AND 952 in Germany d.15 Jun 1006
- b.BET 917 AND 932 in Normandie, Neustria d.AFT 14 OCT 962
- b.~ 1003 in France d.1 JAN 1078/79 in Monastere de L'Order de St. Benoist, Messines, France
- b.BET 908 AND 915 in Autun, Saone-et Loire, Bourgogne, France d.BET 967 AND 968 in Avignon, Vaucluse, Provence, France
- b.~ 0957 in Toulouse, Haute-Garone, France d.~ 0993 in died as a monk in Avignon, France
- b.~ 0920 in Arles, Provence, France d.0965 in Autun, Saone-et Loire, Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 0974 in Toulouse, France d.25 Jul 1034 in Meulan, Yvelines, Isle-de-France, France
- b.BET 904 AND 909 in France d.11 NOV 958 in Tours, France
- b.BET 942 AND 950 in Anjou, France d.BET 1021 AND 1026 in Arles, Provence, France
- b.0915 in Maine, France d.0952
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Alice and Etienne II Henri were married in a religious ceremony in Chartres Cathedral, Breteuil, France. They had ten sons and seven daughters, named Philip, Humbert, Eustache, Eudo III, Henry, Guillaume, Theobald IV, Stephen of, Henry, Odo, Lithuise Adela, Margaret, Maud, Alice, Eleanore, Agnes and Lucia Mahaut.
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Children
Lithuise Adela De Navarre
Lithuise Adela was born about 1081 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France. She died in 1118.
Humbert de Navarre
Humbert was born about 1094 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France. He died in died young.
Theobald IV de Navarre
Theobald IV was born in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France. He died in Lagny-sur-Marne, France.
Stephen of England
Stephen of was born in Blois, France. He died on October 25th, 1154 in St. Martin's Prior, Dover, Kent. He was buried in Faversham Abbey, Faversham, England.
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