Adela of Pfalzel (d. 734 or 735), sometimes called Adula or Adolana,[1][2] was a Frankish noblewoman, abbess, and Catholic saint.
[3] According to the Acta Sanctorum, Adela was the founder and first abbess of the Benedictine monastery of Pfalzel, near Trier, which she entered after her husband died.
Hagiographer Omer Englebert states, ""Her riches and her beauty brought many suitors for her hand; but following the example of her elder sister, she, too, became a nun and founded, about 690", the convent at Pfalzel.
According the Acta Sanctorum, Adela's sainthood is questioned, although it is reported in a medieval lectionary, which also states that Adele was buried at the monastery in Pfalzel.
[4] Her "worship seems uncertain" and medieval scholars Luc d'Achery and Jean Mabillon did not refer to her as a saint, but as "pious".