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A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Adelaide, daughter of Rodolphus

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Adelaide of Italy

4091620A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Adelaide, daughter of Rodolphus

ADELAIDE,

Daughter of Rodolphus, king of Burgundy, married Lotharius the Second, king of Italy, and after his death, Otho the First, emperor of Germany. Her character was exemplary, and she always exerted her influence for the good of her subjects. She died in 999, aged sixty-nine.