Gertrude von Sulzbach
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Gertrude of Sulzbach (German: 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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
| Preceded by Gertrud von Komburg |
German Queen 1137–1146 |
Succeeded by Adelheid of Vohburg |
