Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou

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"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]

Family/Spouse: Etienne de Brioude. Etienne (son of Bertrand and Emilde) died between 970 and 975. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adelaide-Blanche married Raymond de Toulouse about 975. Raymond died before 982. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adelaide-Blanche married Louis V, King of Western Francia in 982 in Vieille-Brioude, Haute-Loire, France, and was divorced in 984. Louis (son of Lothair, King of Western Francia and Emma of Italy) was born in 966; died on 21 May 987. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adelaide-Blanche married Guillaume I "le Liberateur" after 984. Guillaume (son of Boso and Constance) was born in 950; died after 29 Aug 993; was buried in Sarrians, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Guillaume II died before 30 May 1018.
2. Constance of Provence, Queen Consort of France was born between 985-990; died on 22 Jul 1034 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between Sep 958 and Sep 960

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Count of Anjou. Common ancestor of William the Conqueror and his wife Maud.

Foulques married Gerberge in 937. Gerberge died before Sep 958. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 942

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Viscount of Angers, before 898-931×940; Count of Anjou, 931×940 (or 929)-after 941; Count of Nantes, 907×9-914×9; Viscount of Tours, before 905-before 909; Abbot of Saint-Aubin d'Angers and Saint-Lézin, before 924-after 941.

Also called Fulk the Red; Fulco Rufus.

Foulques married Roscille. Roscille (daughter of Warnerius and Tescende) died after 929. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Widone; Garnier.

Warnerius married Tescende. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Forcanda.