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Adèle had a strong interest in Baldwin V’s church reforms and was behind her husband’s founding of several collegiate churches . Directly or indirectly, she was responsible for establishing the Colleges of Aire (1049), Lille (1050) and Harelbeke (1064) as well as the abbeys of Messines (1057) and Ename (1063). After Baldwin’s death in 1067, she went to Rome, took the nun’s veil from the hands of Pope Alexander II and retired to the Benedictine convent of Messines, near Ypres . There she later died and was buried at the convent. Honoured as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church , her commemoration day is 8 September.
1009
| 1009 • Pope Sergius IV succeeds Pope John XVIII as the 142nd pope. |
1028
Age: 19y
marriageBaldwin V of Flanders Amiens, France ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1028 • Dying Emperor Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire marries his daughter Zoe of Byzantium to his chosen heir Romanus Argyrus. |
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Age: 22y
1031
Age: 22y
birth of childMatilda of Flanders 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1031 • Byzantine general George Maniaces captures Edessa. |
1079
Jan 8
Age: 70y
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deathMesen, Belgium ⇓ Died at the Benedictine Convent of Messines 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1079 • Constance of Burgundy founds a monastery in Burgos. |