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XIV. Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror. By Thomas Stapleton, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to John Gage, Esq. F.R.S. Director
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2012
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The Society has lately had before it a fac-simile of the inscription on the coffin-plate of Gunilda, sister of King Harold, and in an accompanying letter, Mr. Beltz has remarked upon the errors into which historians have been led by transferring incidents in the life of one princess to another of the same name and age. I wish to draw attention to a similar mistake, and shall be able to show from a contemporaneous charter, that Adeliza, Countess of Au. male (Albemarle), wife of Count Odo of Champagne, has been confounded with her mother of the same name, and that she was the niece and not the sister of King William the Conqueror.
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page 349 note a Annales Benedictini, tom. vi. p. 192.
page 349 note b Gallia Christiana, tom. xi. col. 274.
page 350 note c The fourth Duke of the Normans was Richard II. (not III as in Mabillon) who began to reign A.D. 996, and died at Fecamp A.D. 1090.
page 350 note d In more recent times called the Brésle.
page 351 note e This is apparently the Roger de Berchelai of Domesday; the name of his wife bespeaks her of Welsh extraction.
page 352 note f See L'Art de Verifier les Dates under the Counts of Ponthieu.
page 352 note g Guillelmus Pictaviensis and Guillelmus Gemeticensis. The latter writer says that the Count of Arques married the sister of Enguerrand.
page 352 note h Ordericus Vitalis and William of Malmsbury.
page 352 note i Gallia Christiana, tom. xi. in archiepiscopos Rothomagenses.
page 352 note k Ord. Vital, lib. iv.
page 353 note l He was of Flemish extraction; the name of Terricus de Bevra (de Bevere) occurs amongst the “milites Flandriæ,” in the rolls of Ban and Arriere-Ban in the time of Philip Augustus. La Roque, Traité du Ban et Arriere-Ban.
page 353 note m Mon. Angl. vol. i. p. 385 and 387.
page 353 note n L'Art de Verifier les Dates, under the Counts of Champagne.
page 354 note o Ordericus Vitalis, and the continuator of Guillelmus Gemeticensis.
page 354 note p See the same historians.
page 354 note q There is a story to this effect in a genealogy of the Earls of Albemarle, printed in the Monasticon, vol. i. p. 797, from the cartulary of Fountains Abbey; but it is a composition of late date, and entitled to no weight when unsupported by concurrent testimony, at least as regards the earlier portion.
page 355 note r Guill. Gemet. lib. viii. cap. xxxvii.
page 355 note s MSS. Bib. Reg. Par. n. 5650.
page 355 note t MSS. Bib. Reg. Par. n. 5650, and Gallia Christiana, tom. xi. instr. col. 69.
page 356 note u See Roger de Hoveden and Ralph de Diceto.
page 356 note x Printed in the Gallia Christiana, tom. xi. instrumenta, col. 19.
page 356 note y Cott. MSS. Claudius, C. v. Printed in Hearne's Liber Niger Scaccarii, vol. ii. p. 399. The date of the roll must be ascribed to some intermediate year between 1106 and 1120. In it Stephen of Blois is styled “Comes Stefanus de Moretun,” an honour he only acquired after the battle of Tinchebray, fought in 1106; and another of the tenants, the “Comes Ricardus,” Richard Earl of Chester, was drowned in the shipwreck of the Blanchenef, in the month of November, 1119.