Person:Gertrude of Bavaria (1)

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Gertrude _____, of Bavaria
b.Bet 1152 and 1155
d.1197
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m. 1147
  1. Gertrude _____, of BavariaBet 1152 & 1155 - 1197
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m. Abt 1171
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Name Gertrude _____, of Bavaria
Alt Name Gertrud van Brunswijk
Gender Female
Birth[1] Bet 1152 and 1155
Marriage to Frederick IV _____, Duke of Swabia
Marriage Abt 1171 to Canute VI _____, of Denmark
Death[1] 1197
Reference Number? Q258776?


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Gertrude of Bavaria (Danish and ; 1152/55–1197) was Duchess of Swabia as the spouse of Duke Frederick IV, and Queen of Denmark as the spouse of King Canute VI.

Gertrude was born to Henry the Lion of Bavaria and Saxony and Clementia of Zähringen in either 1152 or 1155. She was married to Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia, in 1166, and became a widow in 1167. In 1171 she was engaged and in February 1177 married to Canute of Denmark in Lund. The couple lived the first years in Skåne. On 12 May 1182, they became king and queen. She did not have any children. During her second marriage, she chose to live in chastity and celibacy with her husband. Arnold of Lübeck remarked of their marriage, that her spouse was: "The most chaste one, living thus his days with his chaste spouse" in eternal chastity.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gertrude of Bavaria, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   GERTRUD ([1155]-1 Jul 1197, bur Wå Gårds Harde)., in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
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