Champagne Adele

See also: Alix of Champagne

Adele or Alix or Alice of Champagne (towards 1140 - June 4th 1206, with the Palate of the City, Paris), queen of France, is the girl of the count de Champagne, Blois Thibaut II Large the and of Mathilde de Carinthie.

She is the third wife of Louis VII, widower of Constance of Castille, the November 13rd 1160 in Paris and crowned the day-even. Mother of two children:

Dieudonné , the future Philippe Auguste, born the August 21st, 1165, only male heir to Louis VII.
Agnes of France (towards 1171 - after 1207)

She benefits from it to play a great part in the political life of the kingdom and to propose her brothers the count de Champagne Henri the Liberal, the count of Blois Thibaut V and the Archevêque of Rheims Guillaume with the White Hands - by obtaining to him its first head office, évêché of Chartres.

It Marie two first with the girls whom had Louis VII of Aliénor of Aquitaine.

Drawn aside from the capacity by Philippe Auguste in 1180, it is however regent of the kingdom, in 1190, at the time of the Third crusade. To the return of the king, in 1192, the Adèle queen returns again in the shade and takes part in the foundation of abbeys, the such Abbaye of Jard.

She dies the June 4th, 1206, and was buried in the church of the Abbaye of Pontigny, close to Auxerre.

She was the sister of Henri Ier the Liberal, Thibaut V of Blois, Guillaume with the White Hands, Etienne de Sancerre, Marguerite, abbess of Fontevraud, Agnès of Blois, countess of Bar, and Marie of Blois, duchess of Burgundy.

Source: Ivan Gobry, Louis VII the Young person

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