Adelaide of Merania (or Alice, Alix – died 8 March 1279,

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) was reigning

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from 1248 until her death. She was also

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and

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through her marriage in 1267 to Count

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Life

Adelaide was the daughter of Duke

Otto I of Merania Otto I (c. 1180 – 7 May 1234), a member of the House of Andechs, was Duchy of Merania, Duke of Merania from 1204 until his death. He was also List of counts of Burgundy, Count of Burgundy (as Otto II) from 1208 to 1231, by his marriage to Counte ...

and Countess Beatrice II of Burgundy.Guida Myrl Jackson-Laufer, ''Women Rulers Throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide'', (ABC-CLIO, 1999), 19. She inherited the county after the death of her brother,

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, in 1248. As countess, she came into conflict with King Rudolph I. Adelaide died in 1279 and was buried in

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near

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Family

Adelaide married

Hugh, Count of Salins Hugh of Chalon (french: Hugues; 1220–1266) was count of Burgundy by his marriage to Adelaide, Countess of Burgundy, on 1 November 1236, when he was aged 16. He was the son of John, Count of Chalon, and his first wife, Mahat, daughter of Hugh ...

(died 1266), from a younger branch of male-line dynasty of Ivrean-originated Counts of Burgundy, around 1239. They had, among others, the following children: :1.

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(died 1302), married ::in 1271 to 1. Philippa of

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::in 1285 to 2.

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:2.

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, Count of

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(died 1322)Eugene L. Cox, ''The Eagles of Savoy'', (Princeton University Press, 1974), 463. :3. John :4. Guia of Burgundy (died 1316), married in 1274 to

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, count in Piedmont and pretender of

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and son of

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, thus a nephew of her second husband. :5. Hugh (died 1312) :6. Police (Hippolyta), married to Aymer IV, Count of Valence (1277–1330) :7. Elizabeth (d. 1275), married in 1250 to Hartman the Young, Count of Kyburg (d. 1263) and had a daughter: :: Anne, married in 1273 to Eberhard of

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On 11 June 1267, Adelaide married

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, the former

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who inherited the

in the following year (died 1285). The marriage remained childless.

References

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