Adelaide, Countess Palatine of Burgundy

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Adelaide (or Alice, Alix; died 8 March 1279, Evian) was countess palatine of Burgundy from 1248 until her death. She was also wife of brother and heir of the count of Savoy from 1267 until her death.

Adelaide was the daughter of Otto IV, and Beatrice II, Countess Palatine of Burgundy. She inherited the County after the death of her brother, Otto II, Count Palatine of Burgundy, in 1248. As countess, she came into conflict with King Rudolph I.

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

[edit] Family

Adelaide married Hugh, Count of Salins (died 1266), from a younger branch of male-line dynasty of Invrean-originated Counts of Burgundy and thus her mother's kinsman, around 1239. They had, among others, the following children:

1. Otto V, Count of Burgundy (died 1302), married

in 1271 to 1. Philippa of Bar

in 1285 to 2. Mahaut of Artois, granddaughter of Louis IX of France

2. Renaud, Count of Montbéliard (died 1322)

3. John

4. Guia of Burgundy (died 1316), married in 1274 to Thomas III of Savoy, count in Piedmont and pretender of County of Savoy and son of Thomas II of Savoy, thus a nephew of her second husband.

5. Hugh (died 1312)

6. Police (Hippolyta), married to Aymer IV, Count of Valence (1277-1330)

7. Elizabeth (d. 1275), married in 1250 to Hartman the Young, Count of Kyburg (d. 1263) and has a daughter:

Anne, married in 1273 to Eberhard of Habsburg-Laufeuburg

On 11 June 1267, Adelaide married Philip, defrocked archbishop of Lyon and the future Count of Savoy (died 1285). The marriage remained childless.