♀Ide of Namur

Ide of Namur was the mother of an English queen. She was the twenty-sixth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Adelise of Louvain (died 1151).

Ide is said to have been the daughter of Albert III, Count of Namur^W, and to have married Godefroy of Louvain, Duke of Lower Lorraine^W and Count of Brabant and Louvain, as his first wife. Their eldest daughter, Adelise of Louvain, became Queen of England as the wife of King Henry I.

Notes

Sources

Ide’s parentage, her marriage to Godefroy and her daughter Adelise are given in the Complete Peerage (2nd edition, vol. 1, 1910, under Arundel, p. 235), in the account of Adelise’s second husband. It names her only as “Ide, da. of Albert III, Count of Namur”. It is a printed compilation, and no record made in Ide’s own lifetime is cited for her, so each statement about her is compiled rather than documented. The peerage gives no dates for her.

The descent

The line from Adelise to Nancy Jane Blanchard runs through her daughter Alice d’Aubigny and her descendants to John Washburn of Bengeworth, who died in 1547. That the John Washburn of the pedigrees was this man is the identification of the Washbournes’ historian, James Davenport, not a record’s, so the descent is probable.