Adela de Brionne

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands.
Guillaume de Jumièges names "tres filios Richardum, Robertum et Willelmum et totidem filias" as the children of "Balduinum", son of "Gislebertus...filius Godefridi comitis Aucensis" [Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Du Chesne, 1619), Liber VIII, XXXVII, p. 312]. The Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia of Forde Abbey names "Ricardum et…Adeliciam" as two of the children of "dominus Baldewinus de Brionis" and his wife "Albredam neptem domini Willelmi Bastardi…ducis Normanniæ" [Dugdale Monasticon V, Forde Abbey, Devonshire I, p. 377]. The Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia of Forde Abbey records that "Adeliciæ…sorori suæ" inherited the lands of "vicecomes Ricardus", was thereafter called "vicecomitissa" and died "1142 IX Kal Sep" and was buried "apud novum monasterium de Ford"[Dugdale Monasticon V, Forde Abbey, Devonshire I, p. 378].