Gertrude of Flanders, Duchess of Lorraine

Gertrude of Flanders
Landgravine of Brabant
Countess of Louvain
Countess of Brussels
Reign1090–1095
Duchess of Lorraine
Reign1096–1115
Bornc. 1070
Died1117
SpouseHenry III, Count of Leuven
Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine
IssueTheodoric of Alsace and more
HouseFlanders
FatherRobert I, Count of Flanders
MotherGertrude of Saxony

Gertrude of Flanders (c. 1070–1117[1]), was a Countess of Louvain and Landgravine of Brabant by marriage to Henry III, Count of Leuven, and a Duchess of Lorraine by marriage to Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine.[2] At the time the duchy was the upper Lorraine, since 959 separated from the duchy of Lower Lorraine.

  1. ^ Parsons, John Carmi (1988). "The Beginnings of English Administration in Ponthieu: An Unnoticed Document of 1280". Mediaeval Studies. 50: 371–403. doi:10.1484/J.MS.2.306360. ISSN 0076-5872.
  2. ^ Guido, Michael Anne; Ravilious, John P. (2012). "From Theophanu to St. Margaret of Scotland: A Study of Agatha's Ancestry" (PDF). Foundations. 4: 81–121.

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