Lambert Comte de Lens et Artois
- Born: Lens, Normandy, France
- Marriage: Adeliza de Normandy 141,160
- Died: 1054, Battle of Lille, Phalampin, France 141,160
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information: 160 Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, 130:24, 148:18-22
Lambert of Boulogne, count of Lens in Artois, slain at the battle of Lille in 1054, was the second husband of Adelaide of Normandy, sister of William the Conqueror. He was the son of Eustace I, count of Boulogne and his wife Maud, daughter of Lambert I, the Bearded, Count of Louvain and his wife Gerberga. Gerberga was the duahgter of Charles of Lorraine, duke of Lower Lorraine and Adelheid. Charles of Lorraine was the son of Louis IV, d'Outre-Mer, King of the Franks and Gerberga of Saxony, the daughter of Henry I, the Fowler.
• Background Information: 141 Adelaide, countess of Aumale, sister of William the Conqueror, died before 1090, married, as her second husband, Lambert de Boulogne, count of Lens, who was slain in battle at Lille in 1054. They were the parents of Judith who married Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon.
Cokayne's Complete Peerage , Vol. I (Aumale), pp. 351-352
• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Lambert de Boulogne
Lambert married Adeliza de Normandy, daughter of Robert "le Magnifique" Duc de Normandy and Herlčve de Falaise 160,141. (Adeliza de Normandy was born before 1030 in Falaise, Calvados 197 and died before 1090 141,160.)
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