Adelaide of Maurienne, also called Alix or Adele[1] (1092 – 18 November 1154) was Queen of France as the second wife of King Louis VI (1115–1137).

[6] Among many other religious benefactions, she and Louis founded the monastery of St Peter's (Ste Pierre) at Montmartre, in the northern suburbs of Paris.

[7] After Louis VI's death, Adelaide did not immediately retire to conventual life, as did most widowed queens of the time.

As the story goes, Queen Adélaide of France became enamored of a young knight, William d'Albini, at a joust.

The jealous Adélaide lured him into the clutches of a hungry lion, but William ripped out the beast's tongue with his bare hands and thus killed it.