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The Rest of the Story: The Ancestors of Sarah May Paddock Otstott
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Gertrude (Billung) OF SAXONY (1030?-1113)
| Name: | Gertrude (Billung) OF SAXONY 1 |
| Sex: | Female |
| Father: | Bernard II (Billung) OF SAXONY (995-1059) |
| Mother: | Elica OF SCHWEINFURT ( - ) |
Individual Events and Attributes
| Birth | 1030 (app) | |
| Child Count | 12 | |
| Marriage Count | 2 | |
| Occupation | Princess of Saxony | |
| Group/Caste Membership | House of Billung | |
| Death | 4 Aug 1113 (age 82-83) |
Marriage (1)
| Spouse | Robert I OF FLANDERS (1035?-1093) | |
| Children | Gertrude OF FLANDERS (1070?-1117) | |
| Marriage | 1063 (age 32-33) | |
Marriage (2)
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| Bertha of Holland, Queen Consort of France | Philip I of France, Bertha of Holland and their two eldest children Constance and Louis | |||
| Spouse | Florent I OF HOLLAND (aft1020-1061) | |
| Children | Bertha OF HOLLAND (1055?-1094) | |
| Marriage | 1050 (app) (age 19-20) | |
Individual Note
Gertrude of Saxony (c. 1030 – August 4, 1113), also known as Gertrude Billung, was the daughter of Bernard II, Duke of Saxony and Eilika of Schweinfurt. She married Floris I, Count of Holland (c. 1017 – June 28, 1061) c. 1050, and upon his death, her son Dirk V became Count of Holland. Since he was still young, she became regent.
When Dirk V came into power, William I, Bishop of Utrecht, took advantage of the situation, occupying territory that he had claimed in Holland. Gertrude and her son withdrew to the islands of Frisia (Zeeland), leaving William to occupy the disputed lands.
In 1063 Gertrude married Robert of Flanders (Robert the Frisian), the second son of Baldwin V of Flanders. This act gave Dirk the Imperial Flanders as an appanage - including the islands of Frisia west of the Frisian Scheldt. She and her husband then acted as co-regents for the young count.
Children:
She had a total of seven children with Floris I:
Albrecht (b. ca. 1051), a canon in Liege.
Dirk V (ca. 1052, Vlaardingen–17 June 1091).
Pieter (b. ca. 1053), a canon in Liége.
Bertha (ca. 1055–1094, Montreuil-sur-Mer), who married Philip I of France in 1072.
Floris (b. ca. 1055), a canon in Liége.
Machteld (b. ca. 1057)
Adela (b. ca. 1061), who married Count Baudouin I of Guînes.
From her second marriage to Robert I she had five children:
Robert II of Flanders (c. 1065 – October 5, 1111).
Adela (d.1115), who first married king Canute IV of Denmark, and was the mother of Charles the Good, later count of Flanders. She then married Roger Borsa, duke of Apulia.
Gertrude, who married Thierry II, Duke of Lorraine, and was the mother of Thierry of Alsace, also later count of Flanders.
Philip of Loo, whose illegitimate son William of Ypres was also a claimant to the county of Flanders.
Ogiva, abbess of Messines.
SOURCES:
Genealogy A-Z
FMG on Gertrude of Saxony2
Sources
| 1 | Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 104, 100A-22; 105, 101-23; 157, 164-23. |
| 2 | "Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_of_Saxony. |