Gertrude Of Flanders (1080-1117)
Gertrude of Flanders may refer to: * Gertrude of Flanders, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1115/26), daughter of Robert I, Count of Flanders * Gertrude of Flanders, Countess of Savoy (1112–1186), daughter of Thierry, Count of Flanders * Gertrude of Flanders (Blackadder) This article lists the characters in the four series and three special episodes of the British sitcom ''Blackadder''. ''Blackadder'' was notable for featuring actors playing many repeating characters across different eras of history, with Rowa ...

Gertrude Of Flanders, Duchess Of Lorraine
Gertrude of Flanders (c. 1070–1117), was a Countess of Louvain and Landgravine of Brabant by marriage to Henry III, Count of Leuven, and a Duchess of Lorraine by marriage to Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine. At the time the duchy was the upper Lorraine, since 959 separated from the duchy of Lower Lorraine. Life 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". Leuven and Brabant 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 L ...
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Gertrude Of Flanders, Countess Of Savoy
Gertrude of Flanders (1135–1186) was a Countess Consort of Savoy by marriage to Humbert III, Count of Savoy. She was the daughter of Thierry, Count of Flanders, and his second wife Sibylla of Anjou. In 1155, she married Humbert III, Count of Savoy, but he divorced and imprisoned her in 1163. She was freed thanks to Robert, bishop of Cambrai, and returned to the court of her brother, Philip of Flanders. She then returned to Flanders. She remarried Hughues d'Oisy in 1168; the marriage was annulled in 1173, and she retired to a convent. Frédéric Auguste Ferdinand de Reiffenberg, ''Coup d’œil sur les relations qui ont existé jadis entre la Belgique et la Savoie : sur le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane'', Brussels, Jean Brandmuller, 1840, 71 p. She had no children. In 1177, she agreed to abstain for her right to Flanders in favor of her Sister Margaret I, Countess of Flanders Margaret I (c. 1145 - died 15 November 1194) was the countess of Flanders ''suo ...
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