Bertha OF BURGANDY 
Bertha was born in 0982. Bertha's father was Count Baldwin III OF FLANDERS and her mother was Mathilda OF BURGUNDY. Her paternal grandparents were Count Arnold I "The Great" OF FLANDERS and Adele DE VERMANDOIS; her maternal grandparents were King Conrad III OF BURGUNDY and Princess Matilde OF FRANCE. She had two brothers named Jean Of Tonsburgh and Arnold II The Young Count. She was the youngest of the three children.General Notes
Credited with the first unification of the country, convertedthe Danes to Christianity, and conquered Norway. After hisBaptism his fathers pagan tomb was transformed into a Christianplace of worship.
Introduced Christianity into Denmark, he had the famous Jellingrune stone erected in his parent memory. He was fatally woundedduring a rebellion by his son and successor, Sveng I.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0890
- b.0940 in Flanders, France d.01 Nov 0992
- b.0845 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.0939 in Murdered under orders of Clovis I
- b.0885 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.23 Feb 0930 in St. Quentin, France
- b.0855
- b.0914 d.0969
- b.0820 d.0923
- b.0890
- b.0853
- b.0982
- b.0925 d.0993
- b.0955
- b.0921 d.0954
- b.0869 in Wessex, England d.17 Jul 0924 in Farndon on Dee, Cheshire, England
- b.0943
- b.0876 in Saxony, Germany d.02 Jul 0936 in Memleben, Saxe, Germany
- b.0913 in Saxony d.0984
- b.0895 in Memleben, Saxe, Germany d.0968 in Quedlinburg, Germany
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