Gertrud Von Plettenberg
Gertrud von Plettenberg-Seckenrode (died 26 October 1608) was a German noblewoman, administrator of several castles of the Electorate of Cologne and royal mistress of Prince Ernest of Bavaria, Archbishop of Cologne. Biography Gertrud von Plettenberg was a member of the Seckenrode branch of the House of Plettenberg. She was born as a daughter of Ulrich II von Plettenberg-Seckenrode (1530-1584) and his wife, Catharina Margaretha von Luggenhausen (b. 1535). As her family was poor, but noble and well connected, she was given a position at the court of Ernest of Bavaria in Arnsberg, Hirschberg and Höllinghofen. Because of her, Ernest primarily resided at Arnsberg from 1595 onward. Gertrud and Ernest were lovers from 1595, and reportedly married secretly and morganatically in 1605. They had one son, legitimized in 1600, Wilhelm von Bayern, Baron Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical ...
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