UNKNOWN Adelaise

Abt 0950 -

• Name	UNKNOWN Adelaise
  Birth	Abt 0950
  Gender	Female
  Notes	Disambiguation Adèle de Meaux is not Adélaïde de Châlons. Adèle married Geoffroy I Grisegonelle, d. 987, count of Anjou, while Adélaïde married Lambert, d. probably 978, count of Chalon. The confusion arises because after Adele's death, and after Lambert's death, Lambert's widow, Adélaïde did marry Geoffroy I Grisegonelle. [1] Name According to Wikipedia, her name was Adelaise (reference given for this is: Constance Brittain Bouchard, Those of My Blood: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2001), p. 25). Birth and Parentage Adelaise' parentage is unknown. [1] Cawley provides a catalogue of the speculation regarding her origin:[2] Settipani has suggested[660] that she was the daughter of Hugues Comte en Bourgogne and his wife Willa von Thurgau. [2] Chaume suggested that Adelais was the daughter or granddaughter of Charles Constantin Comte de Vienne[661]. [2] Bouchard sets out several different theories concerning Adelais's origin, with the aim mainly of explaining Lambert's accession to Chalon by inheritance through his wife. However, none appears to be based on any primary documentation and Bouchard concludes that she prefers "to leave Adelais's origins unknown"[662]. [2] An earlier theory was that Adelais was the sister of "Wera" Ctss de Meaux[663], which would mean that she was Adelais, daughter of Giselbert Duke of Burgundy & his wife Ermengarde [of Burgundy]. [2] Duchesne suggested that she was the daughter of Robert Comte de Meaux et de Troyes[664], although this would mean that the two wives of Geoffroy I Comte d'Anjou were sisters, no mention of which has so far been found in contemporary sources. [2] Another suggestion is that Adelais Ctss de Chalon was the same person as Wera-Adelais Ctss de Meaux. However, this is even more unlikely from a chronological perspective considering the estimated birth date of Wera-Adelais and the fact that Adelais de Chalon gave birth to at least one child by her second husband, Geoffroy Comte d'Anjou, after her marriage in 979. It would also mean that Comte Geoffroy married, as his second wife, his first wife's mother which is unlikely to have been accepted by the church. [2] In 1619, Duchesne[665] suggested that Adelais was the sister of Guillaume I Comte d'Arles. [2] First Marriage to Lambert Adele married first Lambert I, Count of Chalon-sur-Saone. He died 22 Feb. 978.. They had one son, Maurice. [3] Second Marriage to Geoffrey Adelais married secondly (2 or 9 Mar 979) as his second wife, Geoffroi I "Grisegonelle" Comte d'Anjou, who acted as Comte de Chalon until his death in 987."[2] Richardson gives the date of her marriage to Geoffrey as 20 or 9 March, 979. [3] Adelaise was the second wife of Geoffrey d'Anjou. Baldwin reports that Geoffrey's first wife, Adèle, was still living 6 March 974, the date of a charter in which she donated her hereditary domains to Saint-Aubin in Angers. The witnesses to this charter included, among others, her husband Geoffroy, her sons Foulques and Geoffroy, and count Heribert. Thus her death would have occurred after 974. Adele's place of death is unknown. [1] The date of Geoffrey's marriage to Adelaise would therefore have occurred after 974. According to FMG, Geoffrey's second wife was the widow of Lambert de Châlons, so his death must also be presumed by the time of the marriage.[1] Richardson adds that Adele was deceased by 979, when her husband then married another Adele, widow of Lambert I, Count of Chalon-sur-Saone (died 22 Feb 978). They had one son, Maurice. Geoffroi I, Count of Anjou, was slain in battle at Marcon (near Chateau-du-Loir) 21 July 987, and was buried at Saint-Martin de Tours. His widow, the second Adele, was living in 999. [3] Death Her date of death is unknown. She was still living in 999. [3] Issue Maurice, son of Adele and her first husband Lambert [3], was born in 480. Sources ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Stewart Baldwin. The Henry Project. Adela ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Charles Cawley. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy. "Lambert." Medieval Lands Database ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry. Volume 5, page 485
  Person ID	I59826	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Family	DIJON Lambert,   b. Abt 0935   d. Abt 22 Feb 0978, Chalon-sur-Sâone, Bourgogne, France (Age 43 years)
  Children	1. Of MÂCON Gerberga,   b. 0945   d. Bef 0991, Chatau De Pouilly, Pouilly-Sur-Saone, Bourgogne, France (Age ~ 45 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. CHALON Maud,   b. Abt 0959, Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France d. 1019, Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France (Age 60 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F26563	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026