Though otherwise successful, their marriage produced no children, and Henry decided to leave the throne to his daughter Empress Matilda.

The chronicler Henry of Huntingdon also mentions Adeliza's beauty in an interlude in his Historia Anglorum, stating, "A jewel grows pale on you, a crown does not shine.

[11] Despite her limited involvement in politics, Adeliza seems to have played an active role as a patron of the arts and literature, and was influential in fostering the rise of French poetry in the English court.

[12] At the time, secular books in the French or Anglo-Norman vernacular were extremely popular, a trend given impetus by wealthy aristocratic women like Adeliza.

Many other works that Adeliza commissioned were similar in structure to the Bestiary, including the now lost Life of King Henry by David.

[14] When Henry died on 1 December 1135, Adeliza retired temporarily to the Benedictine convent of Wilton Abbey near Salisbury.

At about that time, she founded a leper hospital dedicated to Saint Giles at Fugglestone St Peter, Wiltshire.

[citation needed] Although not a great deal is known about Adeliza's relationship with her stepdaughter, it is known she was present at the ceremony when Henry officially named Matilda as his heir presumptive, since the chronicler John of Worcester states that the Queen "swore [an oath] for the king's daughter... and agreed ... that if the king did not have an heir of either sex [......], but ... did not lack a survivor of each sex, then the survivor should inherit the kingdom.

[19] Trying to explain Adeliza's actions, John of Worcester suggests that "she feared the king's majesty and worried that she might lose the great estate she held throughout England".

He also mentions Adeliza's excuse to King Stephen: "She swore on oath that his enemies had not come to England on her account but that she had simply given them hospitality as persons of high dignity once close to her.

"[19] In the end, King Stephen yielded to an appeal from Adeliza and permitted Matilda to depart and join her half-brother Robert at Bristol.

Landholdings that were part of Adeliza of Louvain's estate included Waltham Abbey in Essex, and properties in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Middlesex, and Devon.

[22] Alison Weir disputes that she became a nun in her final years in her book Queens of the Conquest stating that Adeliza may have died in childbirth at Affligem and that her heart and viscera were initially buried there while her body was taken back to England.