| Notes |
- Gertrude the Elder of Brunswick († July 21 [2] in 1077 , buried in Brunswick Cathedral ) donated together with her husband Liudolf of Braunschweig , the Collegiate Church of St. Blasius in Braunschweig and later founded the so-called Guelph Treasure .Birth and year of Gertrude are unknown. Her father was Dirk III. , Count of Holland . [3] She was married to the Brunonen Liudolf of Brunswick, Count in Derlingau and Gundigau , only son Bruns I of Brunswick and his wife Gisela of Swabia . [4] Gertrud survived her husband for almost 40 years. From this marriage the children went Brun (o), Egbert I. and Ida (Irmingart) out. [5]
Gertrud was considered formed. After they had come to Brunswick, she was the first local Dankwarderode structurally improve. 1030 donated it along with her husband on a neighboring plot of the castle, the Collegiate of St. Blaise, the predecessor of from 1173 under Henry the Lion built the Brunswick Cathedral. The pen was the Virgin Mary , John the Baptist , and the saints Peter and Paul consecrated. The building was as grave lay the Brunonen designed. [3]
In addition, Gertrud donated some equipment altar , [6] as the relics were later cathedral of the foundation of the Guelph Treasure coming centuries. De Winter identifies four pieces that Gertrude has probably commissioned: two large crosses (the so-called "Gertrude Cross" and "Liudolfkreuz", both shortly after 1038 originated), a portable altar and the arm reliquary of St. Blasius . [3] Only the arm reliquary is still in Braunschweig in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum , in which it reached in 1829. [7] Known as "Gertrude portable altar" object however is since its sale in 1930 in the USA , in the Cleveland Museum of Art . [8 ] There are also the two processional crosses . [9]
Crypt of Henry the Lion . Links: sarcophagus of Henry the Lion , the right of his second wife Mathilde Plantagenet . In the background of the sarcophagus, where the mortal remains of Countess Gertrude Mark Elder, Margrave Ekbert II. Meissen , and Gertrude the Younger of Braunschweig are.
Liudolf died in 1038 and was the first to be buried in the new grave lay. [3] From then took care of Gertrud to the education of the common, minor sons, trying to maintain the bruno African family traditions and strengthen. 39 years later Gertrude was laid at her husband's side to rest. When her grave was opened in 1668, was found in fragments of a small sheet of lead (7.5 × 10.5 cm), [10] the most part of an epitaph was, with the inscription:
"Hic requiescit Gertrudis devota Christ famula. XII Kal. Augusti "
- Hermann drought: History of the City of Brunswick in the Middle Ages. S. 51st
"Here lies Gertrud, devoted servant of Christ."
The panel is now also in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum. [11]
1173 Henry began the lion with the construction of the cathedral probably in the same spot where, until then, the Collegiate Church of Gertrude, had together with her tomb, found. [12] in 1935 it came under the National Socialists to exhumation of the remains Gertrude, Henry the Lion and his second wife Mathilde . Gertrud was then in a new crypt in a common stone coffin with the remains of Margrave . Ekbert II of Meissen and her granddaughter Gertrud Younger of Brunswick buried.
The Braunschweiger "Gertrude Street" is named after her deceased granddaughter Gertrud 1177 the Younger of Braunschweig. [13]
Literature [ Edit ]
Ernst Doell: The Kollegiatstifte St. Blasius and St. Cyriacus of Brunswick. In: Braunschweiger workpieces. band 36th Orphanage book printing and publishing, Braunschweig 1967th
Hermann drought : History of the City of Brunswick in the Middle Ages, Braunschweig. Brunswick 1861st
Regine Marth: . Gertrud (the Elder) In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al (eds.): Braunschweigisches Biographical Dictionary - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006 , ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p 258f.
|
1006 - 1077 (71 years)
