Though many of the details of life are unknown or disputed by historians, Adela of Normandy is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church and was the daughter of William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England and his wife, Matilda of Flanders.
Adela was born in the years following her father’s accession to the English throne in 1066 and was one of up to five daughters. (The birth order and…
