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Personal data GERTRUDE de FLANDERS 

• She was born in the year 1070 in Flanders, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

  Attention: Was younger than 16 years (12) when child (PETRONILLA de LORRAINE) was born (??-??-1082) .

• Title: Duchess of Lorraine
• She died in the year 1117 in Lorraine, Moselle, France, she was 47 years old.
• A child of ROBERT de FLANDERS and GERTRUDE BILLUNG von SAXONY

Household of GERTRUDE de FLANDERS

(1) She is married to THIERRY de LORRAINE.

They got married on August 15, 1095 at Lorraine, Moselle, France, she was 25 years old.

Child(ren):

1. GISELA de LORRAINE  1100-???? 
2. THIERRY de LORRAINE  ± 1104-???? 
3. PETRONILLA de LORRAINE  1082-1144 

(2) She had a relationship with HENRI de LOUVAIN.

Child(ren):

1. ADELAIDE de LOUVAIN  ± 1090-± 1158 

Notes about GERTRUDE de 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.

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".

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:
Adelaide (d. 1158), wife of duke Simon I of Lorraine (1076 - 1138), son of her stepfather Theodoric with Hedwige (d. c. 1090).
Gertrude, wife to Lambert, count of Montaigu and Clermont

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:
Thierry of Alsace "Theodoric" (c. 1099 - 1168), lord of Bitche, also Count of Flanders from 1128. Married to Sibylla of Anjou, and father to Margaret I, Countess of Flanders and Matthew, Count of Boulogne
Henry I (d. 1165), bishop of Toul
Ida, married Sigefroy (d. 1104), count of Burghausen
Ermengarde, married Bernard III Gros de Brancion (fr)
Gisela, married Frederick, count of Saarbrücken
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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