Gertrude of Bavaria

Gertrude of Bavaria and Saxony (* probably in 1154, † June 1, 1197 ) was a daughter of Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Duke of Bavaria, and his first wife Clementia of Zahringen. As the wife was Gertrude short time Duchess of Swabia, later Queen of Denmark.

In 1166 Gertrud part of an arbitration in the conflicts between the Hohenstaufen and the Guelphs, the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa was succeeded on the court day to Ulm: the twelve year old daughter of Henry the Lion was IV with about ten years older than Friedrich, since 1152 Duke of Swabia, married. 1167 Frederick IV moved the imperial army under the command of Barbarossa to Italy, where a large part of the army fell ill with malaria in August 1167. On August 19, 1167 Frederick IV died as a result of his illness. The brief marriage between Frederick and the minor Gertrud remained childless,

In February 1177 the young widow in Lund was married again to political goals. Her second husband was Knut VI. , Which was in 1170 crowned King of Denmark, at the time of marriage was governor in Skåne and in 1182 his father Waldemar I followed in office. This marriage remained childless, since - as the chronicler Arnold of Lübeck reports - the couple lived in chastity.

Gertrude died on July 1, 1197 and was buried in WA Gårds Harde, ie St. Gertrude's Church of ( Swedish) fathers in Gärds Härad (Danish: UAE Gärds / Gers Odsherred ) in Skåne, now part of Kristianstad.