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10 longer, and Adelaide buried him at Willich beside her mother. His day is Dec. 19. Her sister Bertrade was abbess of Notre Dame at Cologne. The fame of Adelaide's sanctity spread over the whole diocese, so that, on the death of Bertrade, the bishop invited Adelaide to be her successor. She removed to Cologne, and spent the remaining three years of her life there, still, however, maintaining constant intercourse with and a motherly interest in her Willich. She is said to have wrought many miracles both before and after her death. She procured by her prayers an abundant and unfailing spring of water in a place near Willich, where the peasants were in great distress for want of it. One of her nuns had so harsh a voice that she destroyed the harmony of the choir when she joined in the hymns; but Adelaide struck her on the cheek, and she became permanently possessed of a voice so sweet and powerful as to be a great acquisition to the musical services of the community. Certain nuns were long too ill to join in the common employments of the rest, but when she rebuked them as useless and expensive, they at once recovered. She died at Cologne about 1015, and the nuns of Willich wished to have her buried amongst them; but St. Heribert, the bishop, said he would not give up the body of the holy abbess on any account, not even if they could give him the body of  for it. Adelaide, however, showed her preference for her first monastery, for her coffin floated up the Rhine without oars to Willich, and there she was buried. AA.SS. Helyot, Ordres Monastiques, v. 53. Bucelinus, ''Men. Ben.''

B. Adelaide (5) of Susa, Dec. 19. c. 1010-1091. "The mighty Marchioness," countess of Turin. Regarded as one of the founders of the house of Savoy. That family was already extending its borders on the ruins of the kingdom of Burgundy, but its first footing in Italy was given to it by the marriage with Adelaide, elder daughter and heir of Manfred, marquis of Susa, whose rule extended from the top of the Alps to the Dora Baltea and the Po. His wife was Bertha, daughter of Aubert, marquis of Ivrea, and sister of Hardouin, king of Italy.

Adelaide married three times: (1) Herman, duke of Suabia; (2) Henry of Montferrat; (3) Odo of Savoy. It is supposed that she was not very young at the time of her first marriage. The marquisate of Susa could not be held by a woman, but she could transfer her claim to her husband. Accordingly, Herman obtained the investiture of the marquisate from his stepfather, the Emperor, Conrad II. Herman died, still young, in 1038, and Adelaide took upon herself the government of her father's inheritance. She soon married again, and it was not long before she was again a childless widow. In 1044 she married Odo, son of Humbert, of the race of the counts of Savoy, lord of the countships of Maurienne and Tarantaise, one of the most powerful princes of the kingdom of Burgundy. Humbert died in 1048, and was succeeded by his eldest son Amadeus I., surnamed Cauda, and he, in 1069, was succeeded by his brother Odo, the husband of Adelaide. Little is knwn of him; Adelaide is the more prominent person. With masculine courage and energy, she knew right well how to rule. It was of immense importance to the family destined to become so great that Adelaide could hold the command of the Burgundian as well as the Italian possessions of the house. Far and wide the marchioness of Susa was known as a woman of no less decision than prudence. As her sons Peter and Amadeus grew up, she used them as assistants, but kept the power in her own hands. She maintained order and justice in her territories. She was grasping and hard, rather feared and respected than beloved. Her neighbours had to be on the alert. She more than once took up arms against her own towns. She waged a long war with the citizens of Asti, and in 1070 she took the town and destroyed it. The year before that she had besieged Lodi and reduced it almost to a heap of rubbish. Thousands of persons were killed; cloisters and churches were not spared. She inflicted so much misery that when she asked the