Gertrude of Bavaria

Gertrude of Bavaria
Queen consort of Danmark
Reign	1182–1197
Born	1152/55
Died	1 June 1197
Burial	Wå Gårds Harde
Spouse	Canute VI of Denmark
House	House of Welf
Father	Henry the Lion
Mother	Clementia of Zähringen

Gertrude of Bavaria and Saxony (1152/55–1197) was a German noble, a duchess of Swabia as the spouse of Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia, and a Danish Queen consort as the spouse of King Canute VI of Denmark.

Born to Henry the Lion of Bavaria and Saxony and Clementia of Zähringen. She was married to Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia, on 1166, and became a widow in 1167. In 1171 she was engaged and in February 1177 married to Prince Canute of Denmark in Lund. The couple lived the first years in Skåne. On 12 May 1182, she became 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 thusly his days with his chaste spouse" in eternal chastity.

Ancestry

Family of Gertrude of Bavaria

16. Welf I, Duke of Bavaria 8. Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria 17. Judith of Flanders 4. Henry X, Duke of Bavaria 18. Magnus, Duke of Saxony 9. Wulfhild of Saxony 19. Sophia of Hungary 2. Henry the Lion 20. Gebhard of Süpplingenburg, Count of Harzgau 10. Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor 21. Hedwig of Formbach 5. Gertrude of Süpplingenburg 22. Henry of Northeim, Margrave of Frisia 11. Richenza of Northeim 23. Gertrude of Brunswick 1. Gertrude of Bavaria 24. Berthold II, Duke of Carinthia 12. Berthold II, Duke of Swabia 25. Richwara 6. Conrad I, Duke of Zähringen 26. Rudolf of Rheinfelden 13. Agnes of Rheinfelden 27. Adelaide of Savoy 3. Clementia of Zähringen 28. Albert III, Count of Namur 14. Godfrey I, Count of Namur 29. Ida of Saxony 7. Clementia of Namur 30. Conrad I, Count of Luxembourg 15. Ermesinde of Luxembourg 31. Clementia of Aquitaine

References

• Alf Henrikson: Dansk historia (Danish history) (1989) (Swedish)
• Sven Rosborn (In Swedish): När hände vad i Nordens historia (When did what happen in the historiy of the Nordic countries) (1997)
• http://runeberg.org/dbl/6/0012.html (in Danish)