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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 • Suleiman II succeeds Mohammed II as Caliph of Córdoba. |
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 • Bezprym seizes the throne of Poland from Mieszko II. |
1079
Jan 8
Age: 70y
deathMesen, Belgium ⇓ Died at the Benedictine Convent of Messines 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1079 • William I of England establishes the New Forest. |