Adhélaide d'Aquitaine: The Half-Viking Princess Who Became The First Queen Consort of France. (950/952-1004)

                                      

Adhélaide of Aquitaine (sometimes spelled: Adélaide d'Aquitaine, Adhélaide of Poitiers, Adelais de Poitou) was regarded as the first consort of a dynasty that ruled in France from the tenth century to the fourteenth century, known by the name of Capet. 

The day of her birth was not recorded, with some sources claiming the year being between 950 and 952. Adhélaide was the daughter of Adèle of Normandy and William III, Duke of Aquitaine. Her mother was the daughter of Rollo, an infamous Viking who founded Normandy and, to be in peace with the King of Franks, converted to Christianism and was married to a noble daughter, possibly the daughter of a Count who was captured by Rollo when he took the man's lands. Named Gerloc, she later received the name Adèle and was married to William before he rose as Count of Poitou and Duke of Aquitaine. Little is known about her.

It is, admitedly, difficult to find further sources about what many consider her to be the first Queen consort of France. What is known about this woman is that her father, the Duke of Aquitaine, made a truce with Hugh Capet and so  Adhélaide was married to him around 969. And around the year of 987, when the last king of the Carolingean line came to die, Hugh Capet was elected as King of Franks next to his consort, Adhélaide. Also, "they were proclaimed at Senlis and blessed at Noyon. They were the founders of the Capetian dynasty of France."

They had three children: Hedwig, Countess of Mons; Robert II, whose granddaughter Mathilde was later married to William the Conqueror of England; and Gisèle, Countess of Ponthieu. A source or two list other daughters, but they cannot be confirmed for certain.

Upon the death of her husband, in 996, she was apparently left regent until the majority of their son, Robert. Adhélaide herself then died in 1004 and it is said she is found buried in Monastere de St-Frambault, in France.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_of_Aquitaine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%C3%A8le_of_France,_Countess_of_Flanders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerloc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppa_of_Bayeux

https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stamboom-homs/I5411162182100027072.php

https://www.geni.com/people/Ad%C3%A9la%C3%AFde-d-Aquitaine-reine-des-Francs/5411162182100027072

http://www.examiner.com/article/historical-profile-adelaide-of-aquitaine

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=122680964

http://www.robertsewell.ca/normandy.html

http://www.robertsewell.ca/capet.html#gen11

http://family.beacondeacon.com/capet.htm