Gertrude of Bavaria, Queen Consort of Denmark ¹

  General Notes:

Getrude was born to Henry the Lion of Bavaria and Saxony and Clementia of Zähringen in either 1152 or 1155. She was married to Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia, in 1166, and became a widow in 1167. In 1171 she was engaged and in February 1177 married to Canute of Denmark in Lund. The couple lived the first years in Skåne. On 12 May 1182, they became king and queen. She did not have any children. During her second marriage, she chose to live in chastity and celibacy with her husband. Arnold of Lübeck remarked of their marriage, that her spouse was : "The most chaste one, living thus his days with his chaste spouse" in eternal chastity.

Gertrude married Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia, son of Conrad III, King of Germany and King of Italy and Gertrude of Sulzbach, Queen Consort of Germany. (Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia was born in 1145 and died in 1167.)

Gertrude next married Canute VI, King of Denmark, son of Valdemar I, King of Denmark and Sophia of Minsk, Queen Consort of Denmark. (Canute VI, King of Denmark was born about 1163 and died on 12 Nov 1202.)