Adelaide of Normandy
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Princess Adelaide of Normandy (c.1026 in Calvados, France - c.1090) was the sister of William the Conqueror.
She was the daughter of Robert the Magnificent and Harlette de Falaise, and married three times; first Enguerrand II of Ponthieu by whom she had no issue; second Lambert II, Count of Lens, by whom she had a daughter who was ancestor of later Scottish monarchs; and third Eudes II of Champagne son of the Count of Troyes.
She gained the title of Princess when William the Conqueror became King of England.
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- [Adelaide's three marriages] as shown on a genealogical website
- [Adelaide's second husband and her daughter Judith of Lens] Judith was mother of Maud, Countess of Huntingdon, wife secondly of David I, king of the Scots.
- [Descendants of Adelaide by her third husband]
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