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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.
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1028
Age: 19y
marriageBaldwin V of Flanders Amiens, France ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1028 • King Sancho III of Navarre conquers Castile. |
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Age: 22y
1031
Age: 22y
birth of childMatilda of Flanders 1 Source ⇓ |
1079
Jan 8
Age: 70y
deathMesen, Belgium ⇓ Died at the Benedictine Convent of Messines 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1079 • Persian astronomer, Omar Khayyám, computed the length of the year to be exactly 365.24219858156 days, the most accurate calculation of his time. Khayyam also, in Treatise on Demonstrations of Problems in Algebra, produced a complete classification of cubic equations and their geometric solutions. |