Gertrude or Gertrud may refer to:
Places
In space
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Gertrude (crater)
Gertrude is the largest known Impact crater, crater on Uranus's natural satellite, moon Titania (moon), Titania. It is about 326 km across, 1/5 of Titania's diameter. It is named after Gertrude (Hamlet), the mother of Hamlet in William Shake ...
, a crater on Uranus's moon Titania
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710 Gertrud
710 Gertrud is a Themistian asteroid, which means it is a member of the Themis family of asteroids. It was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on 28 February 1911 from Vienna.
The light curve
In astronomy, a light curve is a graph ...
, a minor planet
Terrestrial placenames
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Gertrude, Arkansas
Texarkana is a city in the U.S. state of Arkansas and the county seat of Miller County, on the southwest border of the state. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 29,387. The city is located across the state line from its twin city ...
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Gertrude, Washington
McNeil Island is an island in the northwest United States in south Puget Sound, located southwest of Tacoma, Washington. With a land area of , it lies just north of Anderson Island; Fox Island is to the north, across Carr Inlet, and to the ...
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Gertrude, West Virginia
People
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Gertrude (given name)
Gertrude (also spelled Gertrud) is a female given name which is derived from Germanic roots that meant "spear" and "strength". "Trudy", originally a diminutive of "Gertrude," has developed into a name in its own right.
In German-speaking countrie ...
, a given name (including a list of people with the name)
People with Gertrude as the full name:
*Blessed
Gertrude of Aldenberg
Blessed Gertrude of Aldenberg , (c. October 1227 – 13 August 1297) was a German noblewoman and abbess. She was the daughter of Elizabeth of Hungary and of Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia. She became a Premonstratensian canoness regular at the A ...
(1227–1297), daughter of Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia and abbess near Trier
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Gertrude of Austria
Gertrude of Austria (also named ''Gertrude of Babenberg'') (1226 – 24 April 1288) was a member of the House of Babenberg, Duchess of Mödling and later titular Duchess of Austria and Styria. She was the niece of Duke Frederick II of Austria, the ...
(1226–1288), Duchess of Austria and Styria
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Gertrude of Babenberg (c.1118–1150), Duchess of Bohemia
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Gertrude of Baden
Gertrude of Baden (before 1160 – before 1225) was a Margravine of Baden by birth and by marriage a Countess of Dagsburg. She was a daughter of Margrave Hermann III of Baden and his wife, Bertha of Lorraine.
Marriages and issue
Gertrude ...
(c.1160–1225), Margravine of Baden
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Gertrude of Bavaria
Gertrude of Bavaria (Danish and ; 1152/55–1197) was Duchess of Swabia as the spouse of Duke Frederick IV, and Queen of Denmark as the spouse of King Canute VI.
Gertrude was born to Henry the Lion of Bavaria and Saxony and Clementia of Zähri ...
(died 1197), daughter of Henry the Lion, Queen consort of Denmark
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Gertrude of Brunswick
Gertrud of Brunswick (german: Gertrud von Braunschweig; – 9 December 1117) was Countess of Katlenburg by marriage to Dietrich II, Count of Katlenburg, Margravine of Frisia by marriage to Henry, Margrave of Frisia, and Margravine of Meissen b ...
(c.1060–1117), Margravine of Frisia and Meissen
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Gertrude of Comburg
Gertrude of Comburg (died 1130/1131) was the first queen consort of Conrad III of Germany. She was a daughter of Henry, Count of Rothenburg, and Gepa of Mergentheim. in Cawley, Charles, ''Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble ...
(died 1130), Queen consort of Germany
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Gertrude of Dagsburg
Gertrude of Dagsburg (died 30 March 1225) was the reigning countess of Metz and County of Dagsburg, Dagsburg (Dabo) between 1212 and 1225. She was duchess consort of Lorraine by marriage to Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine, Theobald. She was a trouvè ...
(died 1225), Duchess of Lorraine
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Gertrude of Delft
Gertrude van der Oosten (or Gertrude of Delft; died 6 January 1358) was a Dutch Beguine who was considered a mystic and had received the Stigmata.
Life
Gertrude was born in Voorburcht in the County of Holland, to peasant parents, and entered dom ...
(died 1358), Dutch Beguine and mystic
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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 Sav ...
(1135–1186)
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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 Lo ...
(c.1070–1117)
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Gertrude of Hackeborn Gertrude of Hackeborn (1232–1292) was the abbess of the Benedictine convent of Helfta, near Eisleben in modern Germany.
Life
Gertrude was born in 1232 near Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt. She was a member of the Thuringian Hackeborn dynasty and elder ...
(1223–1292), Abbess of Helfta
*Saint Gertrude of Hamage (died 649),
7th century saint, founder of the convent Hamage near Douai
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Gertrude of Helfta
Gertrude the Great, OSB (or Saint Gertrude of Helfta; it, Santa Gertrude, german: Gertrud die Große von Helfta, la, Sancta Gertrudis; January 6, 1256 – November 17, 1302) was a German Benedictine nun and mystic. She is recognized as a saint ...
or Gertrude the Great (1256–c.1302), German Benedictine, mystic, and theologian, Patroness of the West Indies
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Gertrude of Hohenberg
Gertrude Anne of Hohenberg ( – 16 February 1281) was German queen from 1273 until her death, by her marriage with King Rudolf I of Germany. As queen consort, she became progenitor of the Austrian House of Habsburg.
Biography
Gertrude was b ...
(c.1225–1281), Queen consort of Germany
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Gertrude of Merania
Gertrude of Merania ( 1185 – 28 September 1213) was Queen of Hungary as the first wife of Andrew II from 1205 until her assassination. She was regent during her husband's absence.
Life
She was the daughter of the Bavarian Count Berthold IV ...
(1185–1213), Queen consort and regent of Hungary
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Gertrude of Nivelles
Gertrude of Nivelles, OSB (also spelled ''Geretrude'', ''Geretrudis'', ''Gertrud''; c. 628 – 17 March 659) was a seventh-century abbess who, with her mother Itta, founded the Abbey of Nivelles, now in Belgium.
Life Family and childhood
The ea ...
(c.626–659), daughter of Pepin I and founder of the Nivelles monastery
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Gertrude of Poland
Gertrude-Olisava (c. 1025 – 4 January 1108), princess of Poland, was the daughter of King Mieszko II of Poland and Queen Richeza of Lotharingia, and the great-granddaughter of German Emperor Otto II.
Early life
The exact time and place of Ger ...
( 1025–1108), Grand Princess Consort of Kiev
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Gertrude of Saxony
Gertrude of Saxony ( 1030 – August 4, 1113), also known as Gertrude Billung, was a countess of Holland by marriage to Floris I, Count of Holland, and countess of Flanders by marriage to Robert I, Count of Flanders. She was regent of Holland in ...
or Gertrude of Holland (ca.1030-1113), wife of
Robert I of Flanders
Robert I ( – 13 October 1093), known as ''Robert the Frisian'', was count of Flanders from 1071 to his death in 1093. He was a son of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders and the younger brother of Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders. He usurped the counts ...
, regent of Holland
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Gertrude of Sulzbach
Gertrude of Sulzbach (german: Gertrud; – 14 April 1146) was German queen from 1138 until her death as the second wife of the Hohenstaufen king Conrad III.
Life
She was the daughter of the Bavarian count Berengar II of Sulzbach (c.1080–1125 ...
(c.1110–1146), Queen consort of Germany
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Gertrude of Süpplingenburg
Gertrude of Süpplingenburg (18 April 1115 – 18 April 1143) was, by her two successive marriages, Duchess of Bavaria from 1127 to 1138, List of consorts of Tuscany, Margravine of Tuscany from 1136 to 1139, and List of Saxon consorts, Duchess of ...
(1115–1143), Duchess of Bavaria and Saxony
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
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Gertrude (given name)
Gertrude (also spelled Gertrud) is a female given name which is derived from Germanic roots that meant "spear" and "strength". "Trudy", originally a diminutive of "Gertrude," has developed into a name in its own right.
In German-speaking countrie ...
, a which includes a list of fictional characters with this given name
Works
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''Gertrud'' (film), 1964 Danish film based on Söderberg's play
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''Gertrud'' (novel), by Hermann Hesse
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''Gertrud'' (play), by Hjalmar Söderberg
*"Gertrude's Bounce", a song composed by Bud Powell, and performed by the Clifford Brown and Max Roach quintet on the album, ''
Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street
''Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street'' (also known as ''At Basin Street'') is a 1956 album by the Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet, the last album the quintet officially recorded. Apart from '' Sonny Rollins Plus 4'', it was the las ...
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Other uses
*''Gertrude'', a 560-ton copper sheathed ship chartered by the
New Zealand Company
The New Zealand Company, chartered in the United Kingdom, was a company that existed in the first half of the 19th century on a business model focused on the systematic colonisation of New Zealand. The company was formed to carry out the principl ...
in 1841
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Gertrude (code name)
The Gertrude or Gertrud was the code name of the joint invasion plan for Turkey by Nazi Germany and Kingdom of Bulgaria, the idea began forming in the beginning of the summer of 1942. This code name was eventually changed.
The project was abandon ...
, an invasion plan for Turkey by Nazi Germany
*Gertrude, an
underwater telephone
Underwater acoustic communication is a technique of sending and receiving messages below water. There are several ways of employing such communication but the most common is by using hydrophones. Underwater communication is difficult due to factor ...
used by submarines for communication
*.Gertrude, an
Esoteric programming language
An esoteric programming language (sometimes shortened to esolang) is a programming language designed to test the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, as software art, as a hacking interface to another language ...
See also
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Trudy
Trudy is a diminutive of Gertrude. Notable people with the name include:
People
* Trudy Adams (born 1964), American actress
* Trudy Anderson (born 1959), New Zealand cricketer
* Trudy Bellinger, British music video director
* Trudy Benson ( ...
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