Adelaide of Italy
Empress of the Holy Roman Empire
Adelaide of Italy, also called Adelaide of Burgundy, was Holy Roman Empress by marriage to Emperor Otto the Great. She was crowned with him by Pope John XII in Rome on 2 February 962. She was the first empress designated consors regni, denoting a... Wikipedia
Born: 931 AD, Orbe, Switzerland
Died: December 16, 999 AD (age 68 years), Selz Abbey
Spouse: Otto the Great (m. 951 AD–973 AD) and Lothair II of Italy (m. 947 AD–950 AD)
Children: Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor, Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg, and Emma of Italy
Parents: Rudolph II of Burgundy and Bertha of Swabia
Canonized: 1097 by Pope Urban II (Catholicism)