Adele (

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: ''Adèle''; also Adela or Adélaïde/Aelis) (? — 1053) was a French noble lady and the countess ''

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Lady Adele was a daughter of the count

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and his wife, whose name remains unknown. After the death of her father, Adele became a countess, since she was the eldest child of her parents. Her sister was named Isabella. These are the husbands of lady Adele: *Renaud of Semur * Renard of Joigny *Roger I of Vignory *

Ralph IV of Valois Ralph IV (french: Raoul; born 1025, died 1074) was a northern French nobleman who amassed an extensive array of lordships lying in a crescent around the Île-de-France from the border of the Duchy of Normandy in the northwest to Champagne in the ...

Adele and her cousin Ralph IV—the son of Ralph III—were the parents of four children: * Walter of Bar-sur-Aube *

Simon de Crépy Simon de Crépy (c. 1047 – 1081) was Count of Amiens, of the Vexin and of Valois from 1074 until 1077. He was the son of Count Ralph IV of Valois and Adèle of Bar-sur-Aube and thus the brother of Adele of Valois. He is also known as Simon d ...

*Élisabeth *

Adele of Valois Adele of Valois (''Adèle/Adélaïde'') was a daughter of Ralph IV of Valois and Adele of Bar-sur-Aube. She married firstly Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois and they had: # Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois # Odo I, Count of Vermandois She was als ...

''De jure uxoris'', Ralph was the count of Bar-sur-Aube. Adele was a grandmother of

Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois Adelaide of Vermandois (died 23 Sep 1120) was ''suo jure'' Countess of Vermandois and Valois from 1080 to 1120. Adelaide was the daughter of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois and Adele of Valois. By 1080, Adelaide married Hugh, son of the Capeti ...

. Simon donated property to the abbey of Molesme for the soul of Adele.

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Primary sources

*''Acta Sanctorum'' — a chronicle in which the marriages of Adele are mentioned *''Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium'' — by

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