Smyth (Alfred the Great) says she married Conrad of Burgandy.
The confusion is that she married "a Prince near the Alps"; but Boleslaw is the most likely.
1078. St. Adelaide , Empress of Italy
The Calendar of Saints says her first husband was poisoned by his successor.
When she refused to marry the murderer's son, she was imprisoned. King Otto the Great frred her and married her. He died and her daughter-in-law forced Adelaide to quit the royal presence. Throughout these troubles she remained gracious and loving and ws canonised a hundred years after her death. 16 Dec is her feast day
Geoffrey Grisegonelle , Comte d'Anjou, Comte de Gerberge, Comte de Gâtinais
Geoffrey, surnamed Grisegonelle, Count of Anjou, received in requital of gallant services against the Emperor Otho, a grant from King Robert, of the dignified office of Seneschal of France. He inaugurated a policy of expansion, aiming at the extension of the boundaries of the ancient Countship, and the reconquest of those parts of it which had been annexed by the neighboring states. He married Adelais, of Vermandois, daughter of Robert, Count of Troyes (pronounced Troy, from which family the troy weight was named), and dying July 21, 987, was succeeded by his son.
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Following the death of William the Pious, Agnes married Geoffrey Martel of Anjou and convinced him to mount a campaign against Aquitaine, at the end of which she was left in power, ostensibly as a regent until her son came of age. She remained in power, however, well past his majority; her reign ended in 1058, only by the combined efforts of Geoffrey and Agnes' youngest son.
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