Adelaide_of_Auxerre_(born_c._870)

Adelaide of Auxerre (born c. 870)

Adelaide of Auxerre (born c. 870)

Duchess consort of Burgundy (870–929)

Adelaide of Auxerre (born between 865[1] and 870, died between 928 and 929) was a Duchess consort of Burgundy by marriage to Richard, Duke of Burgundy, and had the title Countess of Auxerre, possibly as ruling Count.

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She was the daughter of Conrad II, Duke of Transjurane Burgundy.[2]

In 888, she married Richard, Duke of Burgundy. Adelaide is called Countess of Auxerre between 888 and 921. Exactly why is not clarified. It has been suggested that this was because she was given the County of Auxerre as her dowry. It is possible that she was ruler of Auxerre.

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  1. [1]
    Christian Settipani, La Noblesse du Midi Carolingien. Études sur quelques grandes familles d'Aquitaine et du Languedoc, du IXe au XIe siècles. Toulousain, Périgord, Limousin, Poitou, Auvergne, Linacre College, Unit for Prosopographical Research, 2004, p. 27 (lire en ligne).
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    Timothy Reuter. The Annals of Fulda.
  3. [3]
    Constance B. Bouchard. The Bosonids or Rising to Power in the Late Carolingian Age.
  4. [4]
    Constance B. Bourchard, Those of my Blood: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001)
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