Adelaide of Metz (970 – 19 May 1046) was a French noblewoman. Adelaide was born in 970 in

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. She was a member of the Matfriding dynasty, descending from Matfrid. Her parents are unknown but she was a sister of Adalbert and

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. She married

Henry of Speyer Henry of Speyer (, also ''Heinrich von Worms''; – 989/992 or 28 March 997),Hermann Grote: ''Stammtafeln. Mit Anhang: Calendarium medii aevi'' (= ''Münzstudien.'' Bd. 9). Hahn, Leipzig 1877,Digitalisat p 35 a member of the Salian dynasty, w ...

, a German count and member of the

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. They had two children, Judith of Speyer and

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. After her husband's death, she married a Frankish count from the

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dynasty and had another son, Gebhard III, Bishop of Regensburg. In 1037 she founded the Collegiate Church in

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