Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

U.S. Civil War leader of film “Glory” fame

Adela of France

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• • 27th Great-grandmother of Robert Gould Shaw — 30th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 752589011 
  • Father:
  • Robert II, King of France   
  • Mother:
  • Constance of Arles   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1009 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Jan 1079 
  • Death Location:
  • Messines, Belgium 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Baudoin V of Flanders
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1028 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Amiens, France 
  • Children:
  
  

  Matilda of Flanders (Ahnentafel No:376294505 )

  Baldwin VI of Flanders

• Additional marriages for Adela of France

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  • Spouse:
  • Richard III of Normandy
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Jan 1027

• Sources for Adela of France

  • ¹ Hemingway, Patricia S. , The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed. , Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988) , 4, 9.
  • ² Luther, George A., editor and compiler , The Luther Genealogy: A Histor y of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 163 0-1635 , Penobscot Press (2001) , 80.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas , Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families , Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013) , Vol. V, p. 481.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd , The Royal Descents of 600 Immig rants to the American Colonies or the United States , Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008) , 534.
  • ⁵ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al. , Ancestral Roots of Certain Amer ican Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition , Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004) , 125.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia , "Adela of France, Countess of Flanders" , (accessed 02/21/2010).
  • ⁷ Wurts, John S. , Magna Charta , New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1942) , 185.