Ancestry of
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

American “Fireside” Poet

Adela of France

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• • 27th Great-grandmother of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. — 30th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 914376529 
  • 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

  Baldwin VI of Flanders (Ahnentafel No:457188264 )

• 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 History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635, 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 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 534.
  • ⁵ von Redlich, Marcellus Donald Alexander R., Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Volume I, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1988), 56.
  • ⁶ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 125.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Adela of France, Countess of Flanders", _Countess_of_Flanders, (accessed 02/21/2010).
  • ⁸ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1942), 185.