Adelaide, Countess of Burgundy

Adelaide of Merania
Adelaide of Merania
Hugh, Count of Salins; Philip I, Count of Savoy
Father	Otto I, Duke of Merania
Mother	Beatrice II, Countess of Burgundy

Adelaide of Merania (Adélaïde or Alice, Alix – died 8 March 1279,

Philip I of Savoy

.

Life

Adelaide was the daughter of Duke

King Rudolph I

.

Adelaide died in 1279 and was buried in Cherlieu Abbey near Besançon.

Adelaide married

Hugh, Count of Salins (died 1266), from a younger branch of male-line dynasty of Ivrean-originated

in 1271 to 1. Philippa of

Bar

in 1285 to 2.

Mahaut of Artois

2. Reginald, Count of Montbéliard (died 1322)^[2]

3. John^[2]

4. Guia of Burgundy (died 1316), married in 1274 to

Thomas II of Savoy

, thus a nephew of her second husband.

5. Hugh (died 1312)^[2]

6. Police (Hippolyta), married to Aymer IV, Count of Valence (1277–1330)^[2]

7. Elizabeth (d. 1275), married in 1250 to Hartman the Young, Count of Kyburg (d. 1263)^[2] and had a daughter:

Anne, married in 1273 to Eberhard of

Habsburg-Laufenburg

On 11 June 1267, Adelaide married

archbishop of Lyon who inherited the County of Savoy

^ ^a ^b Guida Myrl Jackson-Laufer, Women Rulers Throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide, (ABC-CLIO, 1999), 19.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Eugene L. Cox, The Eagles of Savoy, (Princeton University Press, 1974), 463.

Regnal titles
Adelaide, Countess of Burgundy House of Andechs Died: 8 March 1279
Preceded by Otto III	Countess of Burgundy 1248–1279	Succeeded by Otto IV
Royal titles
Preceded by Agnes of Faucigny	Countess consort of Savoy 1268–1279	Succeeded by Sybille of Bâgé

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