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Gunhild von Dänemark Königin des Heiligen Römischen Reiches
- Preferred Name: Gunhild von Dänemark Königin des Heiligen Römischen Reiches[1]
- Alternate Name: Gunild Knudsdottir
- Alternate Name: Kunigunde
- Gender: F
- Death: 18 JUL 1038 in Adriatic coast, Italia at LATI: N3.1 LONG: E2.3 with note: GEDCOM data
- FSID: MNRK-2C7
- Heinrich+III,+King+of+Germany,+Holy+Roman+Emperor: 1039 in Italy at LATI: N3.1 LONG: E2.3 with note: Description: He did no become the King of Germany or the Holy Roman Emperor until his father's death in 1039. Thus his wife did not become Queen or Empress
- Birth: 1019 in Danemark at LATI: N6 LONG: E0 with note: GEDCOM data
- Burial: 1038 in Limburg Abbey Church, Bad Duükheim, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany at LATI: N0.3833 LONG: E0.05 with note: Ruins of Limburg Abbey
Limburg Abbey is a ruined abbey near Bad Dürkheim, at the edge of the Palatinate Forest in Germany. In the 9th century, the Salian Dukes from Worms built a fortress on the Linthberg as their family seat. In the early 11th century, the fortress was converted into a monastery with a basilica. It existed until the mid 16th century.
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Wikipedia
Gunhilda of Denmark (c. 1020 – 18 July 1038), was Queen consort of Germany by her marriage with King Henry III from 1036 until her death.
Biography
Gunhilda was a daughter of King Cnut the Great (985/95 – 1035), ruler over the Anglo-Scandinavian North Sea Empire, and his second wife Emma of Normandy (c. 985 – 1052).[1] She was thus a member of the House of Knýtlinga and a sister of King Harthacnut, a half-sister of King Svein Knutsson of Norway and King Harold Harefoot of England, and Alfred Aetheling , Edward the Confessor and Godgifu (daughter of Æthelred the Unready).
About 1025, Gunhilda came to Germany as a child. Her engagement with Henry III, the son and heir of Emperor Conrad II and his consort Gisela of Swabia, was part of a pact of her father Cnut over peaceful borders of the Danish Duchy of Schleswig with Imperial Holstein in the area of Kiel. The agreement had occurred prior to the death of Canute in 1035.[2]
Queen
During the Easter celebration in 1028, Henry received regality from the hands of his father with consent of the princes and was vested with the duchies of Bavaria and Swabia. Conrad temporarily had evolved plans to marry his son with Zoe Porphyrogenita, a daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VIII. Nevertheless, after these ambitions had failed, Gunhilda and Henry were finally betrothed at Pentecost 1035 in Bamberg and married one year later in Nijmegen. Upon her wedding, she took the German name Kunigunde.
According to the chronicles of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines and William of Malmesbury, Gunhilda was accused of adultery and defended in trial by combat, but after her champion's victory she disdained the success and became a nun.[3][4] However, it seems that Gunhilda and her husband reconciled shortly afterwards.
In December 1038, Emperor Conrad went on a campaign to Italy, while Empress Gisela together with Henry and Gunhilda celebrated Christmas in Regensburg. Stuck in a fierce conflict with quarrelsome Archbishop Aribert of Milan, Conrad asked his son for support and both Henry III and Gunhilda followed him on his expedition. In Italy, Gunhilda gave birth to the couple's only daughter, Beatrice (d. 1061), who later became Abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim.
While the siege of Milan proved unsuccessful, Emperor Conrad in 1038 was asked to intervene in a territorial dispute between Guaimar IV of Salerno and Pandulf IV of Capua. He campaigned in the Mezzogiorno in support of Guaimar, took Capua and had Pandulf deposed. Their victory found most of the Mezzogiorno loyal to the Holy Roman Empire.
During the return journey to Germany, an epidemic (possibly malaria) broke out among the Imperial troops, which claimed many victims. Duke Herman IV of Swabia and Gunhilda were among the casualties.[5]
Gunhilda's body was transferred to Germany and buried in the Limburg Abbey church. As her husband was not crowned King of the Romans until the death of his father Emperor Conrad II in 1039, Gunhilda was never crowned German queen.
Family 1: Heinrich Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire III, b. 28 OCT 1017 in Schwaben, Bavaria, Germany d. 7 AUG 1056 in Bodfield, Hartz, Germany
- m. 29 JUN 1036 in Nijmegen, Geldern, Niederlande
Sources:
- Title: Wikipedia - Gunhild of Denmark
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunhilda_of_Denmark;
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