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Encyclopedia > Adelaide de Maurienne

Adélaide de Maurienne (c. 1100 - November 18, 1154) was the daughter of Humbert II of Savoy and Gisela of Burgundy, and niece of Pope Callistus II.


She became the second wife of Louis VI of France (1081-1137), whom she married on August 3, 1115, when she was 15 and he 35. They had six children, the second of whom became Louis VII of France. She was reputed to be "ugly," but attentive and pious, and with Louis she had six sons and two daughters:

Afer Louis VI's death, she married Matthieu I, sire de Montmorency, with whom she had one child.


In 1153 she retired to the abbey of Montmartre, which she had founded with Louis VII. She died there on November 18, 1154.






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Adelaide of Maurienne married Wigo IV (?), son of Wigo III (?) and Adelais of Turin.
Amadeo I (?) married Adelaide of Albon & Grenoble (?), daughter of Wigo II (?) and Gotelene de Clerian (?), circa 1030.
Adelaide of Albon & Grenoble (?) married Amadeo I (?), son of Humbert I of Savoy "The White Handed" and Auchilia of Burgundy (?), circa 1030.
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