Princess/ Gertrud Billunger OF SAXONY 
Gertrud Billunger was born in 1028. Gertrud Billunger's father was Duke Bernhard II OF SAXONY and her mother was Elica VON SCHWEINFURT. Her paternal grandparents were Duke Bernhard Billung II OF SAXONY and Hildeburg VON STADE; her maternal grandparents were Count Henry VON SCHWINFURT and Gerberge OF HENNEBURG. She had a brother and a sister, named Ordulf and Ida. She was the second oldest of the three children. She died at the age of 85 in 1113 in Flanders, Belguim.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.0885 d.0967
- b.0880 d.0973
- b.0915
- b.0902 in Westerburg, Saxony, Germany
- b.0960
- b.0935
- b.1000
- b.0928
- b.0975
- b.1028 d.1113 in Flanders, Belguim
- b.0860 in Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria
- b.0886 in Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria
- b.0864 in Schwaben, Germany
- b.0915 in Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria
- b.0890
- b.0950 in Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germnay
- b.0874 d.0929
- b.0905 in Walbeck, Saxony, Prussia d.0985
- b.0930 in Walbeck, Prussia d.1015
- b.0881
- b.0907 d.0990
- b.1004 in Schweinfurt, Unterfranken, Bavaria
- b.0880
- b.0912
- b.0940
- b.0970 in Kinzigau, Schwaben, Germany
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Gertrud Billunger and Robert IV "Le Frison" were married in a religious ceremony in 1063.
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