Adelaide del Vasto

Adelaide of Savona, also Adelayda, Adelaydis, Adelasia (* 1072, † April 18, 1118 in Patti) was Countess and regent of Sicily and Queen of Jerusalem.

Adelheid was a daughter of the Marquis Manfred of Savona. 1089 she married Roger I, Count of Sicily. She was the third wife of Rogers. With him she had two sons, Simon ( 1093 ) and Roger ( 1095 ). After the Gaufredus Malaterra report two sisters of Adelheid with the sons were I. Rogers from his previous marriage, and Gaufredus Jordanus, engaged. Since Gaufredus died of leprosy before reaching the marriageable age, only the marriage of Jordanus could be carried out solemnly.

After the death of her husband in 1101 she held the regency first for Simon ( until his death in 1105) and then for from Roger until the latter as Roger II in 1112 even took over the rule. A number of mostly Greek documents, where it is called Adelasia, documented their successful government in which she understood to be the various ethnic units justice. While Roger I had no permanent seat of government, Adelheid Palermo chose as his residence.

Then moved to Adelaide to Jerusalem, where she married 1113 Baldwin I, king of Jerusalem. After being disowned by 1117 this for domestic political reasons, she returned to Sicily, where she died in 1118. Buried it is in the Cathedral of San Bartolomeo in Patti.