Adalasia de la Tour

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10. [ADALASIA Fiesco (-after May 1273). Matthew Paris records that Pope Innocent IV arranged the marriage of his niece to "domino de Tur de Pin" in 1251 and that he accepted his bride "non ratione personæ muliebris, sed pecuniæ eam concomitantis"[434]. Her mother’s name is confirmed by the reference to her mother in the May 1273 testament quoted below. On the basis of the primary sources currently identified, her father could have been either Teodoro Fieschi or his brother Opizzone Fieschi, whose wives were both named Simona. The marriage presumably formed part of arrangements when Albert [III] swore homage to Pierre de Savoie in Sep 1250 for la Tour. “Adalasia dame de la Tour” placed under her protection “des hommes de la chartreuse” at the request of the prior of Portes by charter dated Mar 1251[435]. "Humbertus de Turre Delphinus Viennæ" confirmed the rights of "fratrum nostrum Dom. Albertum quondam dominum de Turre et de Coliniaco…dom. Alisiæ quondam uxori suæ" in "castrum sancti Saturnini…villam de Brango…villæ et castri Crimiaci…" as well as in all property (unspecified) which Alix had acquired from "Guefredo de Vireu domicello quondam filio Dom. Alberti de Vireu militis defuncti et Berengariæ eiusdem G. matris, quæ acquisita sunt in mandamento castri de Turre" and from "Giroudo Vimont quondam clerico", by charter dated Feb 1269, which also provides if "Alisiæ ad secundas nuptias convolaret"[436]. The family connections, if any, between Adalasia and Guifred de Virieu and Géraud Vimont are not specified in the document. In the case of the former, it seems unlikely that he was Adalasia’s first husband as the document refers to the possibility of her "secundas nuptias" not "tertias". In any case, Guifred de Virieu is named in a document dated 1267 (although it appears that he died before Feb 1269)[437], when Alix was already married to Albert [IV]. Maybe they were related to Adalasia through her mother. The testament of "Adalasiæ relictæ Alberti junioris domini de Turre Pini et de Coloniaco", dated May 1273, bequeathed property to "Humberto de Turre fratri domini mei et mariti mei…dominæ Simondæ…matri meæ…domine Comitisse del Borget consanguinee mee…Thome et Amedeo de Sabaudia filiis eiusdem…Hugoni de Turre senescallo Lugdun."[438]. Could "…domine Comitisse del Borget consanguinee mee… " in this document be Simone [Sibylle] Dame de Bâgé, wife of Amédée de Savoie whose mother was Adalasia’s sister?

m ([Sep 1250/Mar 1251]) ALBERT [IV] Seigneur de la Tour, son of ALBERT [III] Seigneur de la Tour & his wife Béatrix de Coligny (-before Feb 1269).]

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