{{Short description|Anglo-Norman princess (died before 1113)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Use British English|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Adeliza | death_date = died before 1113 | house = Normandy | father = William the Conqueror | mother = Matilda of Flanders }}
'''Adeliza''' or '''Adelida''' (died before 1113)<ref name="odnb">{{harvnb|van Houts|2004}}</ref> was a daughter of William the Conqueror and his wife, Matilda of Flanders. There is considerable uncertainty about her life, including her dates of birth and death. She was usually the first daughter in lists of William's children, for example in a mortuary roll prepared at her sister's religious house, and thus probably was the eldest. Her inclusion in the mortuary roll indicates that her death preceded the date of its 1113 compilation.
==Biography== In the additions Orderic Vitalis made to the ''Gesta Normannorum Ducum'' (''Deeds of the Norman Dukes''), he states that prior to his death at the Battle of Hastings, Harold Godwinson was betrothed to "Adelidis", a daughter of William, and that she remained single after his death.<ref name="dnb">{{harvnb|Round|1885|p=137}}</ref> Calling her "Adelida", Robert of Torigni follows Orderic in showing her as the affianced of Harold.<ref name="odnb"/>
However, in the later books of his ''Historia Ecclesiastica'', Orderic instead states that Adeliza was "a virgin under the protection of Roger de Beaumont" which, in the view of historian Elisabeth van Houts, probably means that she was a nun of St Léger at Préaux. Orderic makes a previously unknown sister Agatha the fiancée of Harold, and also of Alfonso VI of León and Castile.<ref name="odnb"/>
She was almost certainly the Adeliza addressed by Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury in prayers and meditations as a "venerable lady of royal nobility".<ref name ="odnb"/>
==Ancestry== {{ahnentafel |collapsed=yes |align=center |ref=<ref>{{cite book |author=Carpenter, David |author-link=David Carpenter (historian) |title=The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066–1284 |publisher=Penguin |location=New York |year=2004 |isbn=0-14-014824-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/struggleformaste00davi/page/531 531–532] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/struggleformaste00davi/page/531 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Green | first = Judith | year = 2009 | title = Henry I: King of England and Duke of Normandy | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location= Cambridge, UK | isbn = 978-0-521-74452-2 | page=322}}</ref> |boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc; |boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9; |boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc; |boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc; |1=1. '''Adeliza of Normandy''' |2=2. William I of England |3=3. Matilda of Flanders |4=4. Robert I, Duke of Normandy |5=5. Herleva of Falaise |6=6. Baldwin V, Count of Flanders |7=7. Adela of France |8=8. Richard II, Duke of Normandy |9=9. Judith of Brittany |10=10. Fulbert of Falaise |11=11. Doda or Duxia? |12=12. Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders |13=13. Ogive of Luxembourg |14=14. Robert II of France |15=15. Constance of Arles }}
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==References== *{{ODNBweb |last=van Houts |first=Elisabeth |year=2004 |title=Adelida (''d''. before 1113) |id=164}} *{{Cite DNB|last=Round |first=John Horace |wstitle=Adeliza (d.1066?) |volume=1 |page=137}}
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Category:Date of birth unknown Category:Date of death unknown Category:Year of birth unknown Category:Year of death uncertain Category:English princesses Category:House of Normandy Category:11th-century English women Category:12th-century English women Category:Children of William the Conqueror Category:Daughters of kings Category:Harold Godwinson {{UK-royal-stub}}