Adelaide (died 1105), was sovereign
Countess of Soissons This is a list of those who bore the title Count of Soissons () and ruled Soissons and its ''civitas'' or Diocese of Soissons, diocese as a county in the Middle Ages. The title continued in use into Modern Era, modern times, but without ties to the ...
from 1057 until 1105.
She was the daughter of
Renaud I, Count of Soissons Renaud I, Count of Soissons (c. 985–1057) was Grand Master of the Hotel de France. He died at a siege of the tower of Soissons. His title passed to his daughter Adelaide.
Biography
Renaud I was the son of Guy I, Count of Soissons, and his wife A ...
, and his wife, Lessaline de Dammartin, widow of
Hilduin III, Count of Montdidier
Hilduin III (died after 1032), Count of Montdidier, Seigneur de Ramerupt, son of Hilduin II, Count of Arcis-sur-Aube. He was a member of the House of Montdidier. Virtually nothing is known about his life.
Marriage and Issue
Hilduin married ...
. .
Adelaide became ruler of the County of Soissons upon the death of her father and brother,
Guy II, Count of Soissons, in 1057.
Adelaide married
William Busac, Count of Eu, grandson of Richard I, Duke of Normandy. Adelaide and William had five children:
*
Renaud II, Count of Soissons
*
John I, Count of Soissons, married to Aveline de Pierrefonds
*
Manasses of Soissons,
Bishop of Cambrai
This is a List of bishops and archbishops of Cambrai, that is, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai.
Bishops
For the first bishops of Arras and Cambrai, who resided at the former place, see Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras. On the death ...
,
Bishop of Soissons
The Diocese of Soissons, Laon, and Saint-Quentin (Latin: ''Dioecesis Suessionensis, Laudunensis et Sanquintinensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin'') is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The dioc ...
* Lithuise de Blois, married to
Milo I of Montlhéry
* Daughter, name unknown, married to Yves le Vieux.
William Busac became Count of Soissons, ''
de jure uxoris'', upon their marriage.
Notes
Sources
*Dormay, C., Histoire de la ville de Soissons et de ses rois, ducs, comtes et gouverneurs, Soissons, 1664 (available o
Google Books
Counts of Soissons
1105 deaths
11th-century countesses regnant
11th-century counts in Europe
{{France-noble-stub