Gertrude von Sulzbach

Gertrude of Sulzbach ( _de. Gertrud von Sulzbach) (c. 1114 – 14 April 1146 in Hersfeld) was Queen of the Romans and German Queen. She was the second wife of Conrad III of Germany.

Family

Gertrude was the daughter of Berengar II, Count of Sulzbach (d. 3 December 1125) and Adelheid von Wolfratshausen. Her brother was Gebhard III of Sulzbach; her sister was Bertha of Sulzbach, who married Manuel I Komnenos of the Byzantine Empire and became Empress Irene.

Berengar II was a son of Gebhard II, Count of Sulzbach and Irmingard of Rott.

Gebhard II was a namesake son of Gebhard I, Count of Sulzbach. Gebhard was a son of Herman IV, Duke of Swabia and Adelaide of Susa.

Marriage

Gertrude married Conrad in 1136. The marriage between the Hohenstaufens and the Sulzbach's led to close relations between the two families; in 1167, Gebhard III left Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa (Gertrude's nephew by marriage) as his sole heir.

Gertrude became ill after the birth of her son Friedrich, and died at the age of thirty-six years in Bad Hersfeld. She is buried in the Cistercian monastery of Ebrach.

Issue

From her marriage with Conrad III, Gertrude had two sons:
* Henry Berengar ("Heinrich Berengar") (d. 1150), who in March 1147 was proclaimed co-King by his father, being crowned on 30 March 1147 in Aachen
* Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia m. 1166 Gertrude of Saxony (d. 1196), daughter of Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria and Saxony.

External links

* [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/babenberg/babenberg.html#GB2 A listing of descendants of Leopold I, Margrave of Austria]