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• Sie ist geboren am 29. September 1227 in Wartburg Castle (Near Eisenbach), Thuringia.
• Beruf: Nonne.
• Sie ist verstorben am 13. August 1297 in Kloster Altenberg, Solms Oberbiel, sie war 69 Jahre alt.
• Sie wurde begraben in im Chor der Kirche des Klosters Altenberg bei Wetzlar/Solms-Oberbiel.
• Alternative: Sie wurde begraben in Altenberg, Hessen.
• Ein Kind von Lodewijk IV. van Thüringen und Elisabeth (de Heilige) van Hongarije

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Gertrude was the youngest of Louis and Elizabeth's three children. Her father died while on his way to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Land">Holy Land, shortly before she was born, which left her mother in distress.

Gertrude was scarcely two years old when her mother left her in the care of the canonesses of the Abbey of Aldenberg, where she later entered the community. In 1248, only 21 years old, she was elected abbess and ruled over the monastery for the next 49 years.

With an inheritance she received from her uncle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_I,_Margrave_of_Meissen">Dietrich I, Margrave of Meissen, Gertrude erected a church and a poorhouse attached to the abbey. She took personal care of the residents there. She also led a life of extreme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortification_of_the_flesh">mortification. When https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Nicholas_IV">Pope Nicholas IV published a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade">crusade against the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saracens">Saracens, Gertrude and her community took the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusaders%27_cross">Crusaders' cross.

In 1270, under Gertrude's direction, the abbey began to celebrate the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Corpus_Christi">Feast of Corpus Christi, being one of the first to introduce this feast into Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_VI">Pope Clement VI permitted the abbey to celebrate her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_day">feast day and granted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence">indulgences to those who https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veneration">venerated her relics

 

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