Gertrud von Sulzbach

Grave tablet of Gertrud von Sulzbach in the monastery church in Ebrach

Gertrud von Sulzbach (* around 1110; † April 14, 1146 in Hersfeld ) was the Roman-German queen.

Gertrud was the daughter of Sulzbacher Count Berengar I and Adelheid von Dießen - Wolfratshausen . Among her siblings was Bertha von Sulzbach , who, under the name Irene, was the wife of Emperor Manuels of Byzantium . Probably 1135/36 the marriage with the later Roman-German King Konrad III. closed. Attempts to date the beginnings of the Ebrach Monastery from late medieval tradition are less plausible , according to which the alleged participation of Konrad and Gertrude in the founding of the Zisterze, supposedly around 1132, suggests a marriage that had already been concluded at this point in time. From her marriage to Konrad III. she had the two sons Heinrich-Berengar and Friedrich IV. After the birth of her son Friedrich, Gertrud fell ill and probably died at the age of 36 in the Hersfeld monastery .

She was buried in the Cistercian monastery in Ebrach , where her grave has been walled up in the southern niche behind the choir altar of the abbey church since 1650. To the right of this is that of her son Friedrich von Rothenburg . Your gisant comes from the early 16th century, that of your son from the 17th century.

literature

Elke Goez : Queen Gertrud - The wife of Konrad III. In: Women of the Staufer, ed. vd Society for Staufer History , Göppingen 2006, pp. 28–42.

Web links

Commons : Gertrud von Sulzbach - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

↑ For the date of death, marriage and Gertrude's parents as well as the number and names of her siblings and brothers-in-law, see Heinz Dopsch : Siedlung und Recht. On the prehistory of the founders of the Berchtesgaden monastery. In: Walter Brugger , Heinz Dopsch, Peter F. Kramml (eds.): History of Berchtesgaden. Pen - market - land. Vol. 1: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594). Berchtesgaden 1991, pp. 175–228, here: pp. 214 and 221.
^ Jürgen Dendorfer: Noble group formation and royal rule. The Counts of Sulzbach and their network of relationships in the 12th century. Munich 2004, p. 93f.
↑ A compilation of the sources about her death in: Wilhelm Bernhardi: Konrad III. Yearbooks of German History. Berlin 1975, p. 471, note 11.
↑ Markus Hörsch: The medieval sculptures in the Ebrach Abbey and their meanings. Interests and hierarchies in a Church of the Holy Sepulcher. In: Achim Hubel (Hrsg.): New research on medieval building and art history in Franconia. Lectures of the lecture series of the Center for Medieval Studies at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg in the summer semester 2010. Bamberg 2011, pp. 77–112, here: pp. 89–97.

predecessor	Office	Successor
Richenza from Northeim	Roman-German queen 1135/1136 (counter -queen ), 1138–1146	Beatrix of Burgundy

personal data
SURNAME	Gertrud von Sulzbach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German queen
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1114
DATE OF DEATH	April 14, 1146
Place of death	Hersfeld

[Dopsch-1] For the date of death, marriage and Gertrude's parents as well as the number and names of her siblings and brothers-in-law, see Heinz Dopsch : Siedlung und Recht. On the prehistory of the founders of the Berchtesgaden monastery. In: Walter Brugger , Heinz Dopsch, Peter F. Kramml (eds.): History of Berchtesgaden. Pen - market - land. Vol. 1: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594). Berchtesgaden 1991, pp. 175–228, here: pp. 214 and 221.

[2] Jürgen Dendorfer: Noble group formation and royal rule. The Counts of Sulzbach and their network of relationships in the 12th century. Munich 2004, p. 93f.

[3] A compilation of the sources about her death in: Wilhelm Bernhardi: Konrad III. Yearbooks of German History. Berlin 1975, p. 471, note 11.

[4] Markus Hörsch: The medieval sculptures in the Ebrach Abbey and their meanings. Interests and hierarchies in a Church of the Holy Sepulcher. In: Achim Hubel (Hrsg.): New research on medieval building and art history in Franconia. Lectures of the lecture series of the Center for Medieval Studies at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg in the summer semester 2010. Bamberg 2011, pp. 77–112, here: pp. 89–97.