Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou
950 - 1026 (~ 81 years)-
Name Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou Birth Between 945 and 950 [1] Gender Female Death 1026 Montmajour, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France 
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Siblings3 siblings Person ID I5496 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of AW, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF Last Modified 6 Jan 2018
Father Foulques II "Le Bon" d. 958 Mother Gerberge d. Bef Sep 958 Marriage 937 [2] Family ID F5800 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Etienne de Brioude d. Between 970 and 975 Family ID F4775 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Jan 2017
Family 2 Raymond de Toulouse d. Bef 982 Marriage Abt 975 [1] Family ID F4952 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 19 Mar 2017
Family 3 Louis V, King of Western Francia, b. 966 d. 21 May 987 (Age 21 years) Marriage 982 Vieille-Brioude, Haute-Loire, France [3] Divorce 984 [1] Family ID F5010 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Jun 2016
Family 4 Guillaume I "le Liberateur", b. 950 d. Aft 29 Aug 993 (Age > 43 years) Marriage Aft 984 [1] Children + 1. Guillaume II d. Bef 30 May 1018 + 2. Constance of Provence, Queen Consort of France, b. Between 985-990 d. 22 Jul 1034, Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France (Age ~ 44 years)Family ID F3011 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Jun 2016
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Notes - "Wife of four husbands, and the ancestress of important comital families through three of her marriages, Adélaïde, alias Blanche, was also briefly queen of France, and the mother of another French queen. Yet, in the early nineteenth century, scholars were still confused about her identity. Her story has to be pieced together from various records which, for example, mention an Alaiz, mother of count Pons de Gévaudan, or a Blanca, wife of Louis V, king of France, or an Adelaidis, cui prenomen erat Candida, mother of queen Constance, and only in hindsight is it clear that these records refer to the same woman. The discovery of the work of the historian Richer in the 1830's added a key piece to the puzzle by mentioning three of Adélaïde's marriages, but historians were slow to take advantage of the new information. Nevertheless, by the late nineteeth century, historians had accepted that Adélaïde, alias Blanche, daughter of Foulques II of Anjou, had been successively married to Étienne de Brioude (at the time often incorrectly called count of Gévaudan), king Louis V of France, and Guillaume I (or II) of Provence, and that she was the mother by the last of queen Constance, wife of king Robert II of France, although the marriage to Raymond of "Gothia" was still widely doubted. More recently, in the face of clear proof that Adélaïde was the mother of Guillaume "Taillefer", count of Toulouse, it has been recognized that her marriage to the obscure Raymond was genuine." [The Henry Project]
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Sources - [S91] The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, by Stewart Baldwin, Todd A. Farmerie, and Peter Stewart.
- [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.
- [S160] Wikipedia.
- [S91] The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, by Stewart Baldwin, Todd A. Farmerie, and Peter Stewart.