General Notes

REFN: 1908AN
Alias:<ALIA> /Adeliza/
REFN: P1908
Born: circa 1103 in Louvain, Leeuwen, Brab ant, Belgium, daughter of
Godefroy I, Duke De Lorraine and IDe De Namur. Marr ied on 29 Jan 1121:
Henry I, King of England, son of Guillaume, Duke De Norma ndie and
Mathilde-Maud De Flandre. AdelaiDe was Henri I’s second wife and he was
her first husband. At 15 years of age, she therefore married this 50-year
old widower. Perhaps understandably, her true passion was said to be
needl ework. Married before 1128: Guillaume d’Aubigny, son of William
d’Aubigny and Cecily Bigod (source- a pedigree purchased at Arundel
Castle). Married befor e 1149: Gilbert De Ville. It is unclear whether
Gilbert was Adelaide’s second or third husband. Some sources indicate she
bore her second husband some 7 c hildren, and his name was Albini. Died:
on 23 Apr 1151 in Afflighem, Flandre, Belgium. AdelaiDe was 48 years of
age when she died. Some sources indicate A deliza De Louvain, who was the
widow of Henri I and married Guillaume d’Aubig ny/De Albini, died in 1176.
In hopes of further legitimate issue King Henry ma rried again after the
loss of his only son William. His bride, whose age is u ncertain but who
was certainly younger than his daughter Matilda, was Adeliza , the
daughter of Godfrey the Bearded, Duke of Lower Lorraine, Marquess of
Antwerp, and Count of Louvain. The marriage took place at Windsor on 29
Janua ry 1122.
The coronation of the new Queen at Westminster Abbey on 3 February 11 22
gave rise to an amusing incident. The King, wearing his crown, had taken
his seat on the throne to await his consort’s crowning when the aged
Archbis hop Ralph d’Escures, verging on senility, entered. Seeing the King
he flew in to a rage, thinking that his right to place the crown on the
sovereign’s head had been infringed. He at once snatched the crown from
the King’s head (one version has it that he knocked it off with his
pastoral staff) and insisted o n reimposing it with his own hands. Henry’s
second marriage remained childles s; the once potent sire of many
illegitimate children was potent no longer.
In 1138 the young widowed Queen married William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of
ArunDe l, to whom she bore a large family before, wearied by married life,
she retir ed to the convent of Afflighem in Flanders, where she died and
was buried in March or April 1151.