Adelaide of Tours


Adelaide of Tours was a prominent noblewoman in the Carolingian Empire and daughter of count Hugh of Tours and his wife Ava, who was a sister of count Matfrid of Orléans.
She married an East Frankish nobleman Conrad the Elder, Count of Argengau, from the Elder [House of Welf]. The wedding took place sometime between 834 and 838, and Adelaide's dowry brought Conrad various estates in the West Frankish region of Auxerre. Adelaide and Conrad had at least two children, Hugh the Abbot and Conrad the [Younger, Count of Auxerre|Conrad the Younger]. Later traditions of the Swabian branch of the House of Welf assign to Conrad and Adelaide an additional son, Welf I.

Family

Adelaide was married to Conrad the Elder, Count of Argengau and had the following children:
Some researchers have suggested that after her husband's death Adelaide married again, to Robert the Strong, and had two children, Odo of France and Robert I of France. Those suggestions were not universally acknowledged in scholarly literature, since it was shown that they were based on some misunderstandings in the Chronicle of St-Bénigne, and Liber memorialis of Remiremont.