Adèle de Blois de Champagne ¹

  General Notes:

Adèle or Alix or Alice de Champagne (c. 1140 - June 4, 1206) was the daughter of Theobald IV of Blois and Matilda of Carinthia.

She was the third wife of Louis VII of France, with whom she had three children:
Dieudonné, the future Philip Augustus (born August 21, 1165), the only male heir of Louis VII;
Adèle (1170-1245);
Agnès (c. 1171 - after 1240).

She was active in the political life of the kingdom, along with her half-brothers Henry I of Champagne, Theobald V of Blois, and William, archbishop of Reims. Henry and Theobald were married to daughters of Louis VII and his first wife Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Although her power decreased after the accession of Philip in 1180, she acted as regent of the kingdom in 1190 while Philip was away on the Third Crusade. She returned to the shadows when he returned in 1192 but participated in the founding of many abbeys.

She died on June 4, 1206, and was buried in the church of Pontigny near Auxerre.

[source: Ketil Ken Nygaard's Genealogy, http://nygaard.howards.net/]

Adèle married Louis VII Capet Roi de France, son of Louis VI 'le Gros' Capet Roi de France and Adélaïde de Savoie, on 18 Oct 1160.¹ (Louis VII Capet Roi de France was born about 1121,³ died on 18 Sep 1180 in Paris, France ⁴ and was buried in Melun, , Île-de-France, France.)

  Marriage Notes:

Marriage date also shown as 13 Nov 1160 [source: Peerage.com citing: Marcellus Donald R. von Redlich, Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, volume I (1941; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2002), page 64]