Adele of Meaux

Adele of Meaux
Effigy of Adele of Meaux on her tomb
Spouse(s)	Lambert, Count of Chalon Geoffrey I of Anjou
Issue by Lambert: Hugh I Mahaut Aelis by Geoffrey I: Fulk III of Anjou Geoffrey Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou
Noble family	Carolingian
Father	Robert of Vermandois
Mother	Adelaide-Werra de Chalon
Born	c. 934
Died	c. 982
Buried	St Aubin Abbey, Angers

Adele of Meaux (c. 934 – c. 982) was a French noblewoman. She was Countess of Chalon and later Countess of Anjou.

Adele was a daughter of Robert of Vermandois, Count of Meaux and Troyes, and Adelaide de Chalon.^{[1][lower-alpha 1]} Adele died in 982.^[2]

Family

She married c. 970 Lambert, Count of Chalon († 22 February 978). Their children were:

• Hugh I of Autun, Bishop of Auxerre and Count of Chalon. († 1039).^[3]
• Mahaut of Autun, Dame de Donzy († bef. 1019).^[3]
• Aelis of Chalon, who married c. 991 Guy I, Count of Macon.^[3]

She married Geoffrey I of Anjou (c. 938/940 – July 21, 987). Their children were:

• Fulk III of Anjou (970-1040), he succeeded his father as Count of Anjou.
• Geoffrey of Anjou (971-977), died young.
• Ermengarde, Countess of Rennes and Duchess of Brittany

Notes

1. According to Bachrach, Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, pages 9, 273, Adele's father was Herbert II, Count of Vermandois.

References

1. Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 1 (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 49
2. Bernard S. Bachrach, Fulk Nerra the Neo-Roman Consul, 987–1040 (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993), p. 11
3. Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 3 (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1985), Tafel 433