Adela of Louvain (died 1083)

Before 1060, Adela of Louvain, married Otto I, Margrave of Meissen, Count of Weimar.

After Otto’s death in 1067 Eckbert I, Margrave of Meissen attempted to repudiate his own wife, Immilla of Turin in order to marry Adela and secure his hold on the mark of Meissen.

Eckbert died in 1068, and the following year, Adela married Dedi I of Lusatia.

Lampert of Hersfeld depicted Adela as the driving force behind Dedi’s rebellion, calling her a “most ferocious wife” (saevissima uxor).

[1] According to Lampert, Adela goaded Dedi into action by telling him: “if he were a man, he would not receive this injustice un-avenged, nor would he conduct himself with less courage than her first husband [Otto]”.