Adelaide of Merania (Adélaïde or Alice, Alix – died 8 March 1279,
Évian) was reigning
Countess of Burgundy
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House of Ivrea (982–1184)
House of Hohenstaufen (1190–1231)
House of Andechs (1 ...
from 1248 until her death. She was also
Countess of Savoy and
Bresse
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through her marriage in 1267 to Count
Philip I of Savoy.
Life
Adelaide was the daughter of Duke
Otto I of Merania 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,
Otto III, Count Palatine of Burgundy, in 1248. As countess, she came into conflict with
King Rudolph I.
Adelaide died in 1279 and was buried in
Cherlieu Abbey
Cherlieu Abbey (; ) is a former Cistercian monastery in the commune of Montigny-lès-Cherlieu in Haute-Saône, France, about 37 kilometres west-north-west of Vesoul and about 6 kilometres south-east of Vitrey-sur-Mance in the Forest of Cherlieu ...
near
Besançon
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Capi ...
.
Family
Adelaide married
Hugh, Count of Salins (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.
Otto IV, Count of Burgundy
Otto IV ( 1248, in Ornans – 17 March 1303, in Melun) was the count of the Free County of Burgundy from 1279 until 1303.
Life
Otto was the son of Hugh of Châlons and Adelaide, Countess Palatine of Burgundy. Upon his father's death in 1266/7, ...
(died 1302), married
::in 1271 to 1. Philippa of
Bar
::in 1285 to 2.
Mahaut of Artois
Mahaut of Artois also known as Mathilda (1268 27 November 1329), ruled as Countess of Artois from 1302 to 1329. She was furthermore regent of the County of Burgundy from 1303 to 1315 during the minority and the absence of her daughter, Joan II, ...
:2.
Reginald, Count of
Montbéliard
Montbéliard (; traditional ) is a town in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France, about from the border with Switzerland. It is one of the two subprefectures of the department.
History
Montbéliard is ...
(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
Thomas III of Savoy,
count in Piedmont and pretender of
County of Savoy
The County of Savoy () was a feudal state of the Holy Roman Empire which emerged, along with the free communes of Switzerland, from the collapse of the Burgundian Kingdom in the 11th century. It was the cradle of the future Savoyard state.
s ...
and son of
Thomas II of Savoy, 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
Habsburg-Laufenburg
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On 11 June 1267, Adelaide married
Philip
Philip, also Phillip, is a male name derived from the Macedonian Old Koine language, Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominen ...
,
the former
archbishop of Lyon
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who inherited the
County of Savoy
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s ...
in the following year (died 1285). The marriage remained childless.
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