Adela of Champagne

Adela of Champagne
Queen consort of Franks
Tenure	1164–1180
Coronation	1164
Born	c. 1140 Blois, France
Died	4 June 1206 (aged 65–66) Paris, France
Spouse	Louis VII of France ​ ​ (m. 1160; died 1180)​
Issue	Philip II of France Agnes, Byzantine Empress
House	Blois
Father	Theobald II, Count of Champagne
Mother	Matilda of Carinthia

Adela of Champagne (French: Adèle; c. 1140 – 4 June 1206; also known as Adelaide and Alix) was Queen of France as the third wife of Louis VII. She was the daughter of Theobald II, Count of Champagne, and Matilda of Carinthia. She was named after her grandmother, Adela of Normandy.

Louis and Adela married on 18 October 1160. They had two children. Their son was Philip II. Philip was Louis's only son. Their daughter was the Byzantine empress Agnes.

When Adela's husband died in 1180, her son became king. In 1190, she acted as regent while Philip was away on the Third Crusade.

Queen Adela died on 4 June 1206 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. She was buried in the church of Pontigny Abbey near Auxerre.

Family tree

16. Odo II, Count of Blois

8. Theobald III, Count of Blois

17. Ermengarde of Auvergne

4. Stephen II, Count of Blois

18. Herbert I, Count of Maine

9. Gersende of Maine

2. Theobald II, Count of Champagne

20. Robert I, Duke of Normandy

10. William the Conqueror

21. Herleva

5. Adela of Normandy

22. Baldwin V, Count of Flanders

11. Matilda of Flanders

23. Adela of France

1. Adèle of Champagne

24. Siegfried of Sponheim

12. Egelbert I of Sponheim

25. Richgard

6. Engelbert, Duke of Carinthia

13. Hedwig of Eppenstein

3. Matilda of Carinthia

28. Count Rapotos IV

14. Ulrich I, Count of Passau

29. Matilda

7. Utta of Passau

30. Kuno of Lechsgemünd

15. Adelaide of Frontenhausen

31. Matilda of Horburg

Sources

French royalty
Preceded by Constance of Castile	Queen of France 1164–1180	Succeeded by Isabella of Hainault