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Gertrud Von Nordheim
- Preferred Name: Gertrud Von Nordheim
- Alternate Name: von Lothringen
- Gender: F
- Birth: 1090 in Salm, Salm, Daun, Rhénanie, Prusse, Deutsches Reich at LATI: N0.1522 LONG: E0.6905
- Death: ABT 1165 in Rheineck, Germany at LATI: N0.5 LONG: E0.3167 with note: GEDCOM data
- Occupation: Erbin von Bentheim und Rheineck
- Residence: Burg Salm, Luxemburg,Belgie
- FSID: MN31-TSY
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Gertrude of Northeim (ie Gertrude of Nordheim ) ( c. ?1090-after 1154 / before 1169), which the daughter of Henry, Margrave of Frisia . Gertrude was heiress of Bentheim and Rheineck . She first married Siegfried I of Weimar-Orlamünde and then Otto I, Count of Salm.
«b»Life«/b»
Gertrude was born around 1090. She was the daughter of Henry, Margrave of Frisia and Gertrude of Brunswick , daughter of Egbert I of Meissen. Gertrude had two full siblings: Otto III of Northeim, who succeeded her father, and Richenza , who married the future Emperor Lothair II. From her mother's second marriage, to Henry I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark, Gertrude therefore had a half-brother, Henry II, Margrave of Meissen.
«b»First Marriage«/b»
Gertrude's first husband was Siegfried of Ballenstedt. Though marriage to Siegfried, Gertrude was Countess of the Rhineland, and countess of Weimar-Orlamünde. Gertrude had three children with Siegfried:
1.) Siegfried II of Weimar-Orlamünde (1107-1124)
2.) Adela of Weimar-Orlamünde, married Conrad I of Peilstein
3.) William of Weimar-Orlamünde (1112-1140)
«b»Second Marriage«/b»
After Siegfried's death in 1113, Gertrude married again. Her second husband was Otto I, Count of Salm, son of the German anti-king Hermann of Salm. Part of the reason Gertrude married Otto to secure a male protector for her underage sons, Siegfried II and William. With Otto, Gertrude had several children, including:
1.) Otto II ( c. ?1115-1148/1149), fought against Herman of Stahleck to recapture the County Palatine of the Rhine and what taken prisoner in 1148. He later strangled thing at Schönburg Castle, near Oberwesel in 1148 or 1149
2.) Sophia , married Dirk VI, Count of Holland (born 6 August 1157)
3.) Beatrix, married Wilbrand I, Count of Loccum-Hallermund
After the deaths of her son, Otto II, in 1148, and her husband, Otto I, in 1050, Gertrude ruled the county of Bentheim herself, and ensured her daughter, Sophia, retained possession of Rheineck.
=== ! Europaasche Stammtafeln neue folge (55 ===
! Europaasche Stammtafeln neue folge (552) vol 8 tafel 132;
=== !FTM Vol 11, tree #4329. ===
!FTM Vol 11, tree #4329.
=== Gravin van Bentheim (vermeld in 1154). ===
Gravin van Bentheim (vermeld in 1154).
=== Siegfrid/(Von Ballenstedt) (sealed to 1 ===
Siegfrid/(Von Ballenstedt) (sealed to 1 Husb. 25Oct1941)
=== !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 4, Pe ===
!GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 4, Pedigree Resource File CD 4, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999)
=== Line 43839 from GEDCOM File not recogniz ===
Line 43839 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: BIRT PLAC From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.
Line 94965 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: BIRT PLAC From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
Line 9242 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: BIRT PLAC From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
Line 666 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: BIRT PLAC From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
=== !REL: 25gg dau !INFO: Gens Nostra, ===
!REL: 25gg dau !INFO: Gens Nostra,
=== THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 ===
THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.20; SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.26; STAMMTAFELIN ZUR GESCHICHTE DEREUROPAISCHEN STAATEN (GS NUMBSER 940 D22F) VOL 2 TAB 4; BETHAMIS GENEALOGICAL TABLES (GS NUMBER Q929.2 B465G) TAB 450;
=== Erbin v. Friesland ===
Erbin v. Friesland
=== !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat ===
!NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM); ; June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998; ; , Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
=== #Générale# Attestée en 1154. Dame de Fr ===
#Générale# Attestée en 1154. Dame de Frise.
=== M L Call: Cht 11877 ===
M L Call: Cht 11877
=== !: SOUR AUTH The Church of Jesus Christ ===
!: SOUR AUTH The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints TITL Ancestral File(TM) PUBL June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 REPO @R01@
=== Otto (Count of Reinech) ===
Otto (Count of Reinech)
Preferred Parents:
Father: Henry "the Fat" von Northeim, b. ABT 1055 in Northeim, Hanover, Germany d. 10 APR 1101 in In battle at Bursfeld, Germany
Mother: Gertrud von Braunschweig, b. 1060 in Braunschweig, Stadtkreis Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany d. 9 DEC 1117 in Emden, Stadtkreis Emden, Lower Saxony, Germany
Family 1: Siegfried von Ballenstedt I, b. ABT 1075 in Ballenstedt, Quedlinburg, Saxony, Germany d. 9 MAR 1113
- Adela VON BALLENSTEDT, b. 1113 d. 10 AUG 1155
Family 2: Otto Count of Salm I, b. 9 de agosto de 1077 in Chateau De Salm, Luxembourg, Belgium d. 11 de março de 1150 in Hzgt Oberlothringen HRR
- Beatrix von Rheineck, b. 1120 in Rheineck, Ahrweiler, Rijnland, Preußen, Duitsland d. na 1163 in Loccum, Stolzenau, Hannover, Preußen, Duitsland
- Sophia of Rheineck , b. aproximadamente 1115 in Prusia, Rheineck, Rheintal, Saint Gallen, Switzerland d. 26 SEP 1176 in Jerusalem, Jerusalem District Israel
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