
Gertrude of Flanders (1135–1186) was a Countess Consort of
Savoy
Savoy (; ) is a cultural-historical region in the Western Alps. Situated on the cultural boundary between Occitania and Piedmont, the area extends from Lake Geneva in the north to the Dauphiné in the south and west and to the Aosta Vall ...
by marriage to Humbert III, Count of Savoy.
She was the daughter of
Thierry, Count of Flanders
Theoderic (, , ; – 17 January 1168), commonly known as Thierry of Alsace, was the fifteenth count of Flanders from 1128 to 1168. With a record of four campaigns in the Levant and Africa (including participation in the Second Crusade, the faile ...
, 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 ( 1145 – died 15 November 1194) was the countess of Flanders ''suo jure'' from 1191 to her death.
Early life
Margaret was the daughter of Count Thierry of Flanders and Sibylla of Anjou.
In 1160 she married Count Ralph II of Ver ...
.
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1135 births
1186 deaths
Countesses of Savoy
Daughters of counts