Adélaïs de Breteuil, Countess of Shrewsbury

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Adélaïs de Breteuil, Countess of Shrewsbury

Also Known As: "Adelize", "Adélaïde du Puiset", "de Puisaye"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: France
Death: 1116 (67-69)
France
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Evrard I, comte de Breteuil and Humberge du Puiset
Wife of Roger II "The Great" de Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shropshire, Earl of Arundel & Earl of Shrewsbury
Mother of Everard de Montgomery
Sister of Aremburge ou Eremburge du Puiset; Hugues I Blavons du Puiset, vicomte de Chartres; Valéran de Bréteuïl, I and Gauthier de Breteuil

Occupation: comtesse du Perche
Managed by: Living Wilkins
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About Adélaïs de Breteuil, Countess of Shrewsbury

Adelais de Puiset

Parents: Erard [I] Comte de Breteuil, Vicomte de Chartres & Humberge

Spouse: Roger II de Montgommery (Montgomerie, Montgomery), the first Earl of Shrewsbury

Son: Everard

LINKS

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMAN%20NOBILITY.htm#_Toc254886762

ADELAIS du Puiset [de Breteuil], daughter of ERARD [I] Comte de Breteuil, Vicomte de Chartres & his wife Humberge ---. Orderic Vitalis names Adelais, daughter of Everard du Puiset, as second wife of Roger de Montgommery and says that she was "remarkable for her gentleness and piety"[430].

Earl Roger & his second wife had one child:

11. EVERARD de Montgommery (-before [1135/36]). He is named and his parentage given by Orderic Vitalis, saying he "was well-educated and remains to this day among the royal chaplains in the household of the kings of England" and in another passage that he "served as a clerk among the humbler officers in King Henry's chapel"[498].

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