What is Adeliza of Louvain?
[[File:Queen Adeliza.jpg|thumb|300x300px|Adeliza of Louvain]] '''Adeliza of Louvain''' (c. 1103 – 1151)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiyyueBTpaMC&pg=PA17|title=Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy|last=Panton|first=James|date=24 February 2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810874978|pages=17–18}}</ref> was [[Queen of England]] from 1121 to 1135. She was [[Henry I of England|King Henry I]]'s second wife. She married Henry when she was 18. They had no children. Adeliza was important in making French poetry and art more popular.<ref>{{Citation|last=O’Donnell|first=Thomas|title=European literature and eleventh-century England|date=2012|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-history-of-early-medieval-english-literature/european-literature-and-eleventhcentury-england/4823594C3F53B8F5EA2DBA30CB3C46A0|work=The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature|pages=607–636|editor-last=Lees|editor-first=Clare A.|series=The New Cambridge History of English Literature|place=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-19058-9|access-date=2023-07-06|last2=Townend|first2=Matthew|last3=Tyler|first3=Elizabeth M.}}</ref> When Henry died in 1135, [[Stephen of Blois]] became the King of England. Adeliza lived in a [[Monastery|convent]] for three years. She married William d'Aubigny and had seven children.<ref>Hilton, Lisa. ''Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens from Eleanor of Aquitaine to Elizabeth of York''. New York: Pegasus Books, 2010.</ref> In 1150, she moved to [[Flemish Brabant|Brabant]]. She died in 1151. == References == {{Reflist}}{{Biography-stub}} [[Category:1100s births]] [[Category:1151 deaths]] [[Category:Kings and Queens consort of England]]