Family
She was the daughter of the Bavarian Count Berthold IV of Andechs, who had been elevated to a Duke of Merania by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and his wife Agnes from the Saxon House of Wettin. Gertrude's elder sister was Agnes of Merania, a famous beauty, who married King Philip II of France. Her younger sister was St. Hedwig of Silesia, wife of the Piast duke Henry I the Bearded, the later High Duke of Poland. Their brother was Otto, who succeeded his father as Duke of Merania.
Gertrude's mother, Agnes of Wettin was a granddaughter of Margrave Conrad of Meissen and a great-great granddaughter of the Hohenstaufen duke Frederick I of Swabia and his wife Agnes of Germany., herself a daughter of Emperor Henry IV and Bertha of Savoy.
Gertude's paternal grandparents were Count Berthold III of Andechs, Margrave of Istria and his wife Hedwig from the House of Wittelsbach at Scheyern, a descendant of King Béla I of Hungary, through his daughter, Sophia of Hungary.
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