Reign 1090–1095 Died 1117 Reign 1096–1115 Children Adelaide of Leuven | Mother Gertrude of Saxony Grandchildren Agatha of Lorraine Name Gertrude Flanders, | |
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Issue Theodoric of Alsace and more House House of Flanders
House of Reginar (by marriage)
House of Metz (by marriage) Father Robert I, Count of Flanders Spouse Henry III, Count of Louvain, Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine Parents Gertrude of Saxony, Robert I, Count of Flanders Grandparents Adele of France, Countess of Flanders | ||
Gertrude of Flanders, Duchess of Lorraine (c. 1070–1117), also Countess of Louvain, Landgravine of Brabant until 1095, as the consort of her husbands. At the time the duchy was the upper Lorraine, since 959 separated from the duchy of Lower Lorraine.
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Family background
Gertrude was daughter of Robert I, Count of Flanders (c. 1035–1093) and Gertrude of Saxony (c. 1030 – 1113). Robert was son of Baldwin V of Flanders and Adèle, a daughter of King Robert II of France, and Gertrude daughter of the Duke of Saxony. She was sister of Robert II, Count of Flanders (c. 1065 – 1111), "Robert the Crusader".
Marriage and children
Gertrude married firstly Henry III, Count of Leuven (died wounded in a tournament in Tournai in 1095), of the House of Reginar. He was count of Louvain from 1078 to 1095 and landgrave of Brabant from 1085. At Henry's death, his brother Godfrey I succeeded as count and landgrave. From 1106 he also became duke of Lower Lorraine.
They had four children, probably all daughters (born about 1092-1096), assumingly including:
Secondly in 1096 she married Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine "Thierry" (d. 1115), son of Gérard of Alsace, Count of Metz, Duke of Lorraine (-1070), of the House of Lorraine-Alsace. Thierry was a widower with a son Simon, and a daughter Gertrude. They had the following issue: