Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c.1067 - 1137)
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| adam_text | Contents
List of illustrations ix
List of abbreviations xi
Preface and acknowledgments xix
Maps xxi
INTRODUCTION: CONTEXTS AND SOURCES I
Adela and the Thibaudians 4 • The sources 6 • Lost documents 11 •
Geographic and diachronic perspectives 14
I. FAMILY TIES 22
Adela s birth and early years 23
Born to a king 23 • Royal blood 25 • Childhood education 29 • Summary 34
Marriage politics 34
The sources 34 • The political context: a Thibaudian perspective 39 • Reacting to
the loss of Tours 41 • The 1060s 47 • The 1070s 50 • The early 1080s: tying
the knot 52 • Alliance: to what purpose? 55 • Summation 59
Stephen Henry s inheritance 60
Accumulating multiple counties 62 • Odo IPs division (1037) 64 • Thibaud Ill s
division (1089) 67 • Stephen Henry and Adela 68
2. HUSBAND AND WIFE 71
Personal affairs 71
Joint Lordship 74
Adela s attested activities, c.i 089 1096 75 • Stephen Henry alone? 81 •
Assessing the roles ascribed to the count s wife in charters 84 • Adela s roles
as a count s wife 88 • Political considerations 91
Adela s first regency 94
Stephen s first crusade 94 • Adela s comital rule 96
Stephen Henry s return 101
Consolidating comital authority: family affairs 101 •
Consolidation in the fragmented east 104
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Stephen Henry s final crusade 111
Chapter conclusions 116
3. FROM WIFE TO WIDOW: ADELA S ADMINISTRATION 118
Stephen Henry s fatal crusade 119
Adela s second regency 119* Stephen Henry s death 123
Widow and mother 126
Early anniversary related grants and economic development 126 • Thibaudian
interests in the diocese of Soissons 134 • Adela s further interventions (to c. 1105) 140 •
Adela s administrative activities, largely 1106 c 1108 149
Adela s officials 156
Chapter conclusions 163
4. WIDOWED COUNTESS: ADELA S POLITICAL AGENDA 169
Sister and brothers 170
Henry s contested accession 170 • Adela and Henry s success in Normandy 173 •
The Maine connection 178 • Adela and bishop Hildebert 180 • Breton connections:
lay lords 183 • Archbishops of Dol 188 • Baudri of Bourgueil 191 • Baudri
and Adela 197 • Summary 204
Countess and kings 206
An excommunicate king 206 • Jockeying for power in Berry 208 • William s
marriage and move to Sully 212 • Balancing interests and obligations 219 •
Conflict in the frontiers of Brie 223 • Summary 230
5. LORDSHIP AND PIETY 232
Politics and the peace 234
Bishop, king, and count(s) 234 • Crusading and the peace 237
The politics of ecclesiastical reform 244
Reform at the diocesan level 246 • Monastic reform and religious renewal 247
Bishop Ivo and comital politics 255
Conflict between bishop and countess 255 • Ivo s support for Adela in other conflicts 264
• Summary 276
Adela and the Roman church 278
In the footsteps of her father and father in law 278 • Countess Adela 288
• Pope Paschal s tour of France and later events 296 • Summation 301
Contents vii
6. ADELA, HER BROTHER, AND A NEW FRENCH KING 304
Mother, son, and the sources 307
Fidelity pledged and promises broken 311
Cooperation with the king 311* Causes for Thibaudian Capetian conflict: particular
grievances 314 • Causes for Thibaudian royal conflict: Fulk V of Anjou 317
First blows 322
Why Brie? 322 • A behind the lines view of escalating hostilities 324 •
Other allies of the counts of Blois 330
A possibility for peace 335
Final engagements and a negotiated settlement 335 • Keeping the peace 340 •
King Louis as peace keeper 343 • A settlement for Normandy? 347 • Conclusions 349
7. FROM COUNTESS TO NUN 351
The peace unravels 352
The capture of William of Nevers and eremitical intervention 352 • Phoney war 358
Winning an honorable retirement 363
The contest for Normandy: a family struggle 363 • Adela s patronage and the war effort 366 •
Further hostilities and a separate peace with Fulk V 368 • Conflict continues on other
fronts 372 • The council of Rheims and Adela s activities in 1119 374 • Negotiating
a general peace 378 • Thibaudian perspectives on the peace of 1120 385 • Unforeseen
accidents: the death of William Atheling 390 • Unexpected events: the birth of
Odo le Champenois 393 • Summary 402
Retirement and death 405
Monastic retreat 405 * Adela at Marcigny 412
CONCLUSIONS: ADELA AND FEMALE LORDSHIP 419
Political conjunctures: curbing the counts of Anjou 421 • Stephen Henry and Adela:
joint lordship 426 • Regencies and widowhood 427 • Final appreciation:
Adela and female lordship 435
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Contents
List of illustrations ix
List of abbreviations xi
Preface and acknowledgments xix
Maps xxi
INTRODUCTION: CONTEXTS AND SOURCES I
Adela and the Thibaudians 4 • The sources 6 • Lost documents 11 •
Geographic and diachronic perspectives 14
I. FAMILY TIES 22
Adela's birth and early years 23
Born to a king 23 • Royal blood 25 • Childhood education 29 • Summary 34
Marriage politics 34
The sources 34 • The political context: a Thibaudian perspective 39 • Reacting to
the loss of Tours 41 • The 1060s 47 • The 1070s 50 • The early 1080s: tying
the knot 52 • Alliance: to what purpose? 55 • Summation 59
Stephen Henry's inheritance 60
Accumulating multiple counties 62 • Odo IPs division (1037) 64 • Thibaud Ill's
division (1089) 67 • Stephen Henry and Adela 68
2. HUSBAND AND WIFE 71
Personal affairs 71
Joint Lordship 74
Adela's attested activities, c.i 089 1096 75 • Stephen Henry alone? 81 •
Assessing the roles ascribed to the count's wife in charters 84 • Adela's roles
as a count's wife 88 • Political considerations 91
Adela's first regency 94
Stephen's first crusade 94 • Adela's comital rule 96
Stephen Henry's return 101
Consolidating comital authority: family affairs 101 •
Consolidation in the fragmented east 104
v
vi Contents
Stephen Henry's final crusade 111
Chapter conclusions 116
3. FROM WIFE TO WIDOW: ADELA'S ADMINISTRATION 118
Stephen Henry's fatal crusade 119
Adela's second regency 119* Stephen Henry's death 123
Widow and mother 126
Early anniversary related grants and economic development 126 • Thibaudian
interests in the diocese of Soissons 134 • Adela's further interventions (to c. 1105) 140 •
Adela's administrative activities, largely 1106 c 1108 149
Adela's officials 156
Chapter conclusions 163
4. WIDOWED COUNTESS: ADELA'S POLITICAL AGENDA 169
Sister and brothers 170
Henry's contested accession 170 • Adela and Henry's success in Normandy 173 •
The Maine connection 178 • Adela and bishop Hildebert 180 • Breton connections:
lay lords 183 • Archbishops of Dol 188 • Baudri of Bourgueil 191 • Baudri
and Adela 197 • Summary 204
Countess and kings 206
An excommunicate king 206 • Jockeying for power in Berry 208 • William's
marriage and move to Sully 212 • Balancing interests and obligations 219 •
Conflict in the frontiers of Brie 223 • Summary 230
5. LORDSHIP AND PIETY 232
Politics and the peace 234
Bishop, king, and count(s) 234 • Crusading and the peace 237
The politics of ecclesiastical reform 244
Reform at the diocesan level 246 • Monastic reform and religious renewal 247
Bishop Ivo and comital politics 255
Conflict between bishop and countess 255 • Ivo's support for Adela in other conflicts 264
• Summary 276
Adela and the Roman church 278
In the footsteps of her father and father in law 278 • Countess Adela 288
• Pope Paschal's tour of France and later events 296 • Summation 301
Contents vii
6. ADELA, HER BROTHER, AND A NEW FRENCH KING 304
Mother, son, and the sources 307
Fidelity pledged and promises broken 311
Cooperation with the king 311* Causes for Thibaudian Capetian conflict: particular
grievances 314 • Causes for Thibaudian royal conflict: Fulk V of Anjou 317
First blows 322
Why Brie? 322 • A behind the lines view of escalating hostilities 324 •
Other allies of the counts of Blois 330
A possibility for peace 335
Final engagements and a negotiated settlement 335 • Keeping the peace 340 •
King Louis as peace keeper 343 • A settlement for Normandy? 347 • Conclusions 349
7. FROM COUNTESS TO NUN 351
The peace unravels 352
The capture of William of Nevers and eremitical intervention 352 • 'Phoney war' 358
Winning an honorable retirement 363
The contest for Normandy: a family struggle 363 • Adela's patronage and the war effort 366 •
Further hostilities and a separate peace with Fulk V 368 • Conflict continues on other
fronts 372 • The council of Rheims and Adela's activities in 1119 374 • Negotiating
a general peace 378 • Thibaudian perspectives on the peace of 1120 385 • Unforeseen
accidents: the death of William Atheling 390 • Unexpected events: the birth of
Odo 'le Champenois' 393 • Summary 402
Retirement and death 405
Monastic retreat 405 * Adela at Marcigny 412
CONCLUSIONS: ADELA AND FEMALE LORDSHIP 419
Political conjunctures: curbing the counts of Anjou 421 • Stephen Henry and Adela:
joint lordship 426 • Regencies and widowhood 427 • Final appreciation:
Adela and female lordship 435 |
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