Adelaide of Metz (970 – 19 May 1046) was a French noblewoman. Adelaide was born in 970 in

Egisheim Eguisheim (; german: Egisheim; Alsatian dialect, Alsatian: ''Egsa'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Haut-Rhin Departments of France, department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It lies in the historical region of Alsace (german: Els ...

. She was a member of the Matfriding dynasty, descending from

Matfrid Matfrid (died 836) was the Frankish count of Orléans in the reign of Emperor Louis the Pious. He is usually thought to have been the first of the lineage known to historians as the Matfridings (German ''Matfridinger'' or ''Matfriede''). Matfrid wa ...

. Her parents are unknown but she was a sister of Adalbert and

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. She married

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, a German count and member of the

Salian dynasty The Salian dynasty or Salic dynasty (german: Salier) was a dynasty in the High Middle Ages. The dynasty provided four kings of Germany (1024–1125), all of whom went on to be crowned Holy Roman emperors (1027–1125). After the death of the la ...

. They had two children, Judith of Speyer and

Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II ( – 4 June 1039), also known as and , was the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1027 until his death in 1039. The first of a succession of four Salian emperors, who reigned for one century until 1125, Conrad ruled the kingdoms ...

. After her husband's death, she married a Frankish count from the Babenberg dynasty and had another son,

Gebhard III, Bishop of Regensburg Gebhard III, called Gebhard ''of Franconia'' or ''von Hohenlohe'', was the bishop of Regensburg (or Ratisbon) from 1036 to 2 December 1060. He succeeded Gebhard II. As the son of Adelaide of Metz, he was an uncle of the Emperor Henry III and an all ...

. In 1037 she founded the Collegiate Church in

Öhringen Öhringen ( East Franconian: ''Ähringe'') is the largest town in Hohenlohe (district) in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in southwest Germany, near Heilbronn. Öhringen is on the railline to Schwäbisch Hall and Crailsheim. With a population o ...

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{{Authority control French countesses German countesses Matfriding dynasty Medieval French nobility 10th-century German nobility People from Metz 970 births 1046 deaths 11th-century German nobility