Adelaide Duchess Of TURIN

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Adelaide was born around 1015 and was the daughter of Odalrico Manfredo II, Margrave of Turin and Susa, and his wife Bertha of Este. Odalrico died while Adelaide was still a young, unmarried woman, and she inherited most of his vast domains in northern Italy.

Adelaide was a beautiful woman with the soul of a lion. She had learned martial arts as a girl and bore her own arms and armor. she had masculine courage and energy and knew how to rule her inheritance. More than once she waged war on rebels in her own territories, burning Asti, Lodi, and other towns that had risen against her.

Adelaide had three husbands. the first was Hermann, Duke of Swabia, whom she married in January 1037 and who died of plague in 1038. Her second was Henry of Montferrat, whom she married in 1041 and who died in 1045. Her third husband was Otto of Savoy, whom she married in 1046 and who died about twelve years later. It was through her children with Otto that Adelaide became one of the founders of the house of Savoy.

Adelaide's involvement in politics did not stop at her own borders. In the struggle between the German emperors and the papacy, she strongly supported the imperial side. In the quarrel between her son-in-law Emperor Henry IV and pope Gregory VII her advice to Henry saved his crown for him. When Henry went to Canossa to seek forgiveness from Pope, Adelaide went with him.

In her old age, Adelaide brooded over her three marriages. No one today knows what was troubling her. She did decide to seek God's forgiveness by doing works of charity, and she began to give generously to religious institutions.

Adelaide married Hermann IV Duke Of SWABIA in Jan 1037. Hermann (son of Margrave of Austria Ernst I Von Babenburg Duke Of SWABIA and Gisele Of SWABIA) was born about 1015; died on 28 Jul 1038. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Gebhard I Count Of SULZBACH died about 1080 in Murdered.
2. Hermann I Count Of CASTILE died in 1038.

Adelaide married Henry Margrave Of MONTFERRAT in 1041. Henry died in 1045. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adelaide married Eudes (Odo) about 1046. Eudes (son of Humbert I Count Of Aosta And MAURIENNE and AUXILIA) was born about 1020; died between 19 Jan 1057 and 1058. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Margrave of Susa Amadeus II (I) was born about 1046; died on 26 Jan 1080.
2. Bertha Of TURIN was born in 1051; died on 27 Dec 1087.
3. Adelaide VON SUSA

Odalrico married Bertha Of ESTE before 1014. Bertha (daughter of Humbert Count Of Genoa And TORTONE and RAILINDA) died on 29 Dec 1037. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]