Right-Believing
Adelheid of Metz
A pious noblewoman who reposed in 1046 at Öhringen in Germany.
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- Era
- 11th century
- Place
- Öhringen
Life
Adelheid of Metz was born in 970 at Eguisheim, of the Matfriding dynasty, and died on 19 May 1046, according to one source. She was a sister of the counts Adalbert and Gerhard. She married Henry of Speyer, a German count of the Salian dynasty; they had two children, Judith and Conrad II, the future emperor. After her husband's death she married a count of the Babenberg dynasty and had another son, Gebhard III, bishop of Regensburg. In 1037 she founded the collegiate church at Öhringen.
The sources consulted show no liturgical veneration or canonization, and other sources give a different year of death.