Adeliza of Louvain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Queen consort of England
Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001
Place of Birth: Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium
Date of Death: 23-Apr-1151
Profession: nun
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Adeliza of Louvain
- Adeliza of Louvain, sometimes known in England as Adelicia of Louvain, also called Adela and Aleidis; (c.
- 1103 – March/April 1151) was Queen of England from 1121 to 1135, as the second wife of King Henry I.
- She was the daughter of Godfrey I, Count of Louvain. Henry was some 35 years older than his bride, who was about 18 when they married.
- He already had children, though no surviving son, from his first marriage to Matilda of Scotland, as well as several illegitimate ones.
- As his second marriage produced no children, the decision was made to leave the throne to his daughter, the Empress Matilda; an oath was sworn by the clergy, members of the royal family, including Adeliza, as well as English nobles to recognise Matilda as Henry's heir upon his death.
- After his death Adeliza spent three years based in a convent, then married again and had seven children by William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel.
- But a year before her death at the age of forty eight she left her husband to move to a monastery in Flanders, where at least one of her brothers also lived. Adeliza's royal marriage seems to have been successful, apart from the failure to produce a new heir.
- The flow of Henry's illegitimate children seems already to have ceased by the time of the marriage, and they spent most of their marriage together, which was by no means inevitable in royal marriages of the period.
- She seems to have been influential in the promotion of French poetry and other arts at court, but played little part in politics.
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