of Normandy · ◉ direct ancestor
♀Adelaide of Normandy
Dates not yet known.
Adelaide of NormandyW was a sister of William the Conqueror and Countess of Aumale. She was the twenty-seventh great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Judith of LensW.
Adelaide was the daughter of Robert of NormandyW and HerleveW. She is said to have married three times: first Enguerrand, Count of PonthieuW; second Lambert of Lens, Count of Lens in Artois, who is said to have been slain at Lille in 1054; and third Odo of ChampagneW. Her daughter Judith, by Lambert, married Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton. Adelaide is said to have died before 1090.
Notes
Sources
Adelaide’s title as Countess of Aumale, her three husbands, her death before 1090 and her place as the Conqueror’s sister are given in the Complete Peerage (2nd ed., vol. 1, 1910, pp. 351–352, under Aumale, with its pedigree). That work names her the illegitimate daughter of Robert, Duke of the Normans, by Herleve, and notes that Stapleton’s earlier claim that she was the duke’s granddaughter was withdrawn by Stapleton himself. The work is a compilation, so the facts are worded as reports.
Judith
Judith’s own page treats her marriage to Waltheof and her descent. The Complete Peerage cites a medieval life of St. Waltheof, which calls the countess a niece of the king and the daughter of Count Lambert of Lens.
Family time line
Recorded events
| Event | When | Where | Evidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Living at | aft 1054 | Aumale, Seine-Maritime, Normandie, France | on record |
| Title (Nobility) Countess of Aumale (Complete Peerage, AUMALE pp.351-352 and pedigree - Judith, da. of Lambert of Lens) |
from a compiled source |
Sources
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org) - articles on medieval royal and noble ancestors, read s1409 — Living at, about this person
- Cokayne, G. E., The Complete Peerage, new ed., ed. Vicary Gibbs, vol. 1, Ab-Adam to Basing (London: St Catherine Press, 1910) — Title (Nobility), about this person, family with Lambert of Lens
Borders as they stood about 1500, from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.