Adelaide of Susa

Abt 1015 - 1091  (~ 76 years)

• Name	Adelaide of Susa
  Birth	Abt 1015  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	27 Dec 1091	Canischio, Turino, Piedmont, Italy   [2, 3]
  Siblings	2 siblings
  + 1. Bertha of Turin ▻ Otto of Savona ,  m. Abt 1036 + 2. Irmingard de Susa   d. 28 Jan 1078 ▻ Otto of Swabia and Schweinfurt ;  Ekbert I of Brunswick ,  m. 1058 + 3. Adelaide of Susa ,   b. Abt 1015   d. 27 Dec 1091, Canischio, Turino, Piedmont, Italy  (Age ~ 76 years) ▻ Hermann of Swabia ,  m. Abt 1036 ;  Otto I of Savoy ,  m. Abt 1046
  Person ID	I702	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, 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	12 May 2019

  
  

  Father	Olderich II Manfredo,   b. 992   d. 29 Oct 1034, Turin, Torino, Piedmont, Italy (Age 42 years)
  Mother	Berta of Este   d. 1029
  Marriage	Bef 1014  [4, 5]
  Family ID	F2179	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Hermann of Swabia,   b. Abt 1007   d. 28 Jul 1038, near Milan, Lombardy, Italy (Age ~ 31 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1036  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Richwara of Swabia   d. Bef 1056
  Family ID	F14490	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 May 2019

  
  

  Family 2	Otto I of Savoy   d. Between 19 Jan 1057 and 1060
  Marriage	Abt 1046  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Amadeo II of Savoy,   b. Abt 1050   d. 26 Jan 1080 (Age ~ 30 years) + 2. Bertha of Turin,   b. 1051   d. 27 Dec 1087, Mainz, Hessen, Germany (Age 36 years) + 3. Adelheid of Savoy,   b. Abt 1052   d. 1079 (Age ~ 27 years)
  Family ID	F263	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Alix. Marchioness (Duchess) of Turin. Kick-ass eleventh-century woman who took no crap from anybody, evidently. From Wikipedia: Since the margravial title primarily had a military purpose at the time, it was thus was not considered suitable for a woman. Emperor Conrad II therefore arranged a marriage between Adelaide and his stepson, Herman IV, in January 1037. Herman was then invested as margrave of Turin. Herman died of the plague while fighting for Conrad II at Naples in July 1038. Adelaide remarried in order to secure her vast march. Probably in 1041, and certainly before 19 January 1042, Adelaide married Henry, Marquess of Montferrat. Henry died c. 1045 and left Adelaide a widow for the second time. Immediately, a third marriage was undertaken, this time to Otto of Savoy (1046). With Otto she had three sons, Peter I, Amadeus II, and Otto. The couple also had two daughters, Bertha, who married Henry IV of Germany, and Adelaide, who married Rudolf of Rheinfelden (who later opposed Henry as King of Germany). [...] In 1070 Adelaide captured and burned the city of Asti, which had rebelled against her. In 1069 Henry IV tried to repudiate Adelaide's daughter, Bertha, which caused Adelaide's relationship with the imperial family to cool. However, through the intervention of Bertha, Henry received Adelaide's support when he came to Italy to submit to Pope Gregory VII and Matilda of Tuscany at Canossa. In return for allowing him to travel through her lands, Henry gave Bugey to Adelaide. Adelaide and her son Amadeus then accompanied Henry IV and Bertha to Canossa, where Adelaide acted as an oath-helper, alongside Matilda and Albert Azzo II, Margrave of Milan, among others. Bishop Benzo of Alba sent several letters to Adelaide between 1080 and 1082, encouraging her to support Henry IV in the Italian wars which formed part of the Investiture Controversy. Adelaide's dealings with Henry IV became closer after this. She offered to mediate between him and Matilda and Tuscany, and may even have joined him on campaign. Adelaide made many donations to monasteries in the march of Turin. In 1064 she founded the monastery of Santa Maria at Pinerolo. Adelaide received letters from many of the leading churchmen of the day, including Pope Alexander II, Peter Damian, and Pope Gregory VII. These letters indicate that Adelaide sometimes supported Gregorian reform, but that at other times she did not. Peter Damian (writing in 1064) and Gregory VII (writing in 1073), relied upon Adelaide to enforce clerical celibacy and protect the monasteries of Fruttuaria and San Michele della Chiusa. By contrast, Alexander II (writing c. 1066/7) reproached Adelaide for her dealings with Guido da Velate the simoniac Archbishop of Milan. [...] Adelaide is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented as one of the 999 names on the Heritage Floor.

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., date only. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S160] Wikipedia. [S834] Alan B. Wilson, 10 Nov 1996, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.