NORMANDIE Adelais

Bef 1035 - Bef 1096  (< 61 years)

• Name	NORMANDIE Adelais
  Birth	Bef 1035	Falaise Castle, Falaise, Basse-Normandie, France
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 1096	Gournay Sur Marne, Seine Saint Denis, Ile De France, France
  Notes	Adelaide was a daughter of Robert the Magnificent, Duke of Normandy, born c.1030[1] Elisabeth Van Houts, in her article Les femmes dans l’histoire du duché de Normandie (or Women in the history of ducal Normandy) mentions Countess Adelaide as one of those notable Norman women who were known to have exerted a strong influence on their children, especially with regard to passing on their own family history.[2][3] Marriages Adelais (or Adelaide) married three times:[4] m firstly ENGUERRAND [II] Comte de Montreuil (died 1053)[5] by whom she had issue: Adelaide II, Countess of Aumale, m. William de Bréteuil, Lord of Bréteuil, son of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford.[6][7] m secondly ([1053/54]) LAMBERT de Boulogne Comte de Lens Count of Lens (died 1054),[8] they had a daughter: Judith of Lens', m. Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon and Northumbria.[9] m thirdly ([1060]) EUDES III Comte de Troyes et d'Aumâle Odo, Count of Champagne (d. aft. 1096),[10] by whom she had a son: Stephen, Count of Aumale.[11]' Adelaide's first marriage to Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu potentially gave then Duke William a powerful ally in upper Normandy.[12] But at the Council of Reims in 1049, when the marriage of Duke William with Matilda of Flanders was prohibited based on consanguinity, so were those of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne and Enguerrand of Ponthieu, who was already married to Adelaide.[13] Adelaide's marriage was apparently annulled in c.1049/50, and another marriage was arranged for her, this time to Lambert II, Count of Lens, younger son of Eustace I, Count of Boulogne forming a new marital alliance between Normandy and Boulogne.[14] Lambert was killed in 1054 at Lille, aiding Baldwin V, Count of Flanders against Emperor Henry III.[15] Now widowed, Adelaide resided at Aumale, part of her dower from her first husband, Enguerrand, or part of a settlement after the capture of Guy of Ponthieu, her brother-in-law.[16] As a dowager, Adelaide began a semi-religious retirement and became involved with the church at Auchy presenting them with a number of gifts.[17] In 1060 she was called upon again to form another marital alliance, this time to a younger man Odo, Count of Champagne.[18] Odo must have been a disappointment, as he appears in only one of the Conqueror's charters, receiving no land in England.[19] In 1082 King William and Queen Matilda gave to the Abbey of the Holy Trinity in Caen, the town of Le Homme in the Cotentin with a provision to the Countess of Albamarla (Aumale), his sister, for a life tenancy.[20] In 1086, as Comitissa de Albatnarla' ,[21], as she was listed in the Domesday Book, was shown as having numerous holdings in both Suffolk and Essex,[22] one of the very few Norman noblewomen to have held lands in England at Domesday as a tenant-in-chief.[23] She was also given the ' Lordship of Holderness which was held after her death by her 3rd husband, Odo, by then disinherited Count of Champagne. The Lordship then passed on to their son, Stephen.[24] Lambert II, Count of Lens Lambert II, Count of Lens was a French nobleman, the son of Eustace I, Count of Bologne and of Maud de Leuven (daughter of Lambert I of Leuven).[25] c. 1053. He married Adelaide of Normandy, Countess of Aumale, daughter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy and sister of William the Conqueror.[26] Adelaide was the widow of Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu who died in 1053.[27] c. 1054 Lambert and Adelaide had a daughter, Judith of Lens, although Lambert would scarcely have seen her, as he was killed at the Battle of Lille in 1054.[28] Lambert was supporting Baldwin V, Count of Flanders against Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor when he was killed in battle.[29] His widow, Adelaide, married thirdly, Odo, Count of Champagne.[30] Death Adelaide died before 1090.[31] Sources ↑ Source: George Andrews Moriarty, The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa (Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Society, Salt Lake City, UT, 1985), p. 13 ↑ Source: Elisabeth van Houts, 'Les femmes dans l'histoire du duché de Normandie', Tabularia « Études », n° 2, 2002, (10 July 2002), p. 24 ↑ Source: Robert the Magnificent. Wikipedia. URL: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_the_Magnificent ↑ FMG ↑ Source: George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, ed. Vicary Gibbs, Vol. I (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1910), pp. 350–2 ↑ Source: George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, ed. Vicary Gibbs, Vol. I (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1910), p. 351 ↑ That it was her mother, and not the daughter that married Odo of Champagne see Stapleton. ↑ Source: George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, ed. Vicary Gibbs, Vol. I (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1910), p. 352 ↑ Source: N. J. Higham, The Kingdom of Northumbria, AD 350 – 1100 (Alan Sutton Publishing, Ltd. , 1993), p. 226 ↑ Source: Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Germany, 1984), Tafel 46 ↑ Source: Ibid ↑ Source: Kathleen Thompson, 'Being the Ducal Sister: The Role of Adelaide of Aumale', Normandy and its Neighbours 900–1250; Essays for David Bates, ed. David Crouch, Kathleen Thompson (Brepols Publishers, Belgium, 2011), p. 68 ↑ Source: Kathleen Thompson, 'Being the Ducal Sister: The Role of Adelaide of Aumale', Normandy and its Neighbours 900–1250; Essays for David Bates, ed. David Crouch, Kathleen Thompson (Brepols Publishers, Belgium, 2011), p. 68 ↑ Source: Kathleen Thompson, 'Being the Ducal Sister: The Role of Adelaide of Aumale', Normandy and its Neighbours 900–1250; Essays for David Bates, ed. David Crouch, Kathleen Thompson (Brepols Publishers, Belgium, 2011), p. 71 ↑ Source: John Carl Andressohn, The ancestry and life of Godfrey of Bouillon (Ayer Publishing, 1972) p. 20 ↑ Source: Kathleen Thompson, 'Being the Ducal Sister: The Role of Adelaide of Aumale', Normandy and its Neighbours 900–1250; Essays for David Bates, ed. David Crouch, Kathleen Thompson (Brepols Publishers, Belgium, 2011), p. 71 ↑ Source: Kathleen Thompson, 'Being the Ducal Sister: The Role of Adelaide of Aumale', Normandy and its Neighbours 900–1250; Essays for David Bates, ed. David Crouch, Kathleen Thompson (Brepols Publishers, Belgium, 2011), p. 71 ↑ Source: Kathleen Thompson, 'Being the Ducal Sister: The Role of Adelaide of Aumale', Normandy and its Neighbours 900–1250; Essays for David Bates, ed. David Crouch, Kathleen Thompson (Brepols Publishers, Belgium, 2011), p. 72 ↑ Source: Kathleen Thompson, 'Being the Ducal Sister: The Role of Adelaide of Aumale', Normandy and its Neighbours 900–1250; Essays for David Bates, ed. David Crouch, Kathleen Thompson (Brepols Publishers, Belgium, 2011), p. 72 ↑ Source: George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, ed. Vicary Gibbs, Vol. I (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1910), p. 351 ↑ Source: George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, ed. Vicary Gibbs, Vol. I (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1910), p. 351 ↑ Source: Ann Williams, The English and the Norman Conquest (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, UK, 1995), p. 58, n. 57 ↑ Source: Lambert Lens DeBoulogne (1022-1054) Kathleen Thompson, 'Being the Ducal Sister: The Role of Adelaide of Aumale', Normandy and its Neighbours 900–1250; Essays for David Bates, ed. David Crouch, Kathleen Thompson (Brepols Publishers, Belgium, 2011), p. 76 ↑ Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odo,_Count_of_Champagne ↑ Source: Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 4 (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1989), Tafel 621 ↑ Source: George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, Vol. I, ed. Vicary Gibbs (London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1910), pp. 351-2 ↑ Source: Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 4 (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1989), Tafel 653 ↑ Source: John Carl Andressohn, The ancestry and life of Godfrey of Bouillon (Ayer Publishing, 1972), p. 20 ↑ Source: James Robinson Planché, The Conqueror and his companions, Vol. 1 (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874), p. 122 ↑ Source: George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, Vol. I, ed. Vicary Gibbs (London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1910), pp. 352 ↑ Source: George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, ed. Vicary Gibbs, Vol. I (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1910), p. 352 Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. V page 488 Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. I p. 208-211 Project Medlands - http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORTHERN%20FRANCE.htm#Enguerranddied1045
  Person ID	I59185	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	CONTEVILLE Herluin,   b. Abt 03 Sep 1001, Conteville, Eure, Normandy, France d. 01 May 1072, Mortain, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	Stepchild
  Mother	FALAISE Herlève,   b. Abt 1003, Falaise, Normandie, France d. Abt 1055, Mortain, Normandie, France (Age 52 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1030
  Family ID	F26682	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	NORMANDIE Robert,   b. 22 Jun 1000, Rouen, Duchy of Normandy d. Bef 03 Jul 1035, Nicaea, Byzantine Empire (modern Iznik, Turkey) (Age < 35 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	FALAISE Herlève,   b. Abt 1003, Falaise, Normandie, France d. Abt 1055, Mortain, Normandie, France (Age 52 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F26318	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	BERLOGNE Lambert,   b. 1022, France d. Aug 1054, Lille, Flandre (Age 32 years)
  Children	1. LENS Judith,   b. Abt May 1054, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France d. Abt 1090, Fotheringay, Northamptonshire, England (Age 35 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F26319	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Family 2	PONTHIEU Enguerrand,   b. Bef 1025   d. 25 Oct 1053, Arques, Normandie (Age > 28 years)
  Marriage	1048
  Children	1. PONTHIEU Guy,   b. Alençon, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France d. 13 Oct 1101, Ponthieu, Somme, Picardie, France  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. PONTHIEU Helissende,   b. Bef 1053, Ponthieu, Somme, Picardie, France d. 1128, France (Age > 75 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. LENS Judith,   b. Abt May 1054, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France d. Abt 1090, Fotheringay, Northamptonshire, England (Age 35 years)  [Father: Stepchild]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F26628	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026