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Adelaide was daughter of the count palatine Adalard of Paris. [1] She was chosen by Charles the Bald, King of Western Francia, to marry his son and heir, Louis the Stammerer, despite the fact that Louis had secretly married Ansgarde of Burgundy against the wishes of his father. Although Louis and Ansgarde already had two children, Louis and ...
Alicia Adélaide Needham (née Montgomery; 31 October 1863 – 24 December 1945) was an Irish composer of songs and ballads. A committed Suffragette , she was the first woman to conduct at the Royal Albert Hall, London, and the first female president of the National Eisteddfod of Wales (in 1906).
She was the second or third daughter of Amadeus III, Count of Savoy and Maurienne, and Mahaut of Albon (the sister of Guigues IV of Albon, "le Dauphin"). One of her aunts, Adelaide of Maurienne , was queen consort as the wife of King Louis VI of France , and one of her great-granduncles was Pope Callixtus II whose papacy lasted from 1119 until 1124, the year of his death.
It is a fictionalisation of some events in the life of Adeläide. Adelaide is the heroine of Adelaide di Borgogna, an opera with two acts (1817) by Gioachino Rossini (music) and Giovanni Schmidt (libretto). Adelaide is the heroine of William Bernard McCabe 's 1856 novel Adelaide, Queen of Italy, or The Iron Crown.
Adelaide is a feminine given name from the English form of a Germanic given name, from the Old High German Adalheidis, meaning "noble natured". The modern German form is Adelheid, famously the first name of Queen Adelaide, for whom many places throughout the former British Empire were named. The French form is Adélaïde or Adélaide, and Czech ...
RighteousAmong the Nations. Adélaïde Haas Hautval (1 January 1906 – 17 October 1988) [1] was a French physician and psychiatrist who was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp, where she provided medical care for Jewish prisoners and refused to cooperate with Nazi medical experimentation. She was named Righteous Among the Nations in 1965.
Judith of Speyer. Gebhard III, Bishop of Regensburg. Adelaide of Metz (970 – 19 May 1046) was a French noblewoman. Adelaide was born in 970 in Egisheim. She was a member of the Matfriding dynasty, descending from Matfrid. Her parents are unknown but she was a sister of Adalbert and Gerhard. [1] She married Henry of Speyer, a German count and ...
