The Annalista Saxo names "Gertrudem, filiam Ekberti marchionis senioris, matrem Richenze inperatricis" as wife of Graf Dietrich [II]. In a later passage, it names "Gertrudis soror Ecberti marchionis iunioris" as wife of Graf Heinrich, specifying that she escaped with difficulty after her husband was killed.
Heiress of Braunschweig. The Genealogica Wettinensis names "Gerdrude que erat de Bruneswich" as wife of "marchio Heinricus". The Annales Sancti Blasii Brunsvicenses record that "Gertrudis marchionissa filia Ecberti" was the founder of "Sancti Egidii in Brunswik". A charter dated 1134, under which her son-in-law Emperor Lothar donated property to the monastery of St Marie at Brunswick, names "Gertrudis marchionissa, filia Ekeberti marchionis" as founder and also names "coniuge nostra Rikensa, eiusdem marchionisse filia…[et] filii sui Ottonis et filiarum, Richenze coniugis nostre et Gertrude Palatine comitisse".
The Libro Memoriarum Sancti Blasii records the death in Dec 1117 of "domina Ghertrudis marchionissa iunior". 1
Marriage Information:
Gertrud married Gf. Dietrich II VON KATLENBURG, son of Gf. Dietrich I VON KATLENBURG and Bertrada of Holland. (Dietrich II VON KATLENBURG died in 1085.)
Marriage Information:
Gertrud also married Gf. Heinrich "der Fette" VON NORTHEIM, son of Gf. Otto I VON NORTHEIM, Herzog von Bayern, and Richenza VON SCHWABEN, after 1085. (Heinrich "der Fette" VON NORTHEIM died in 1101 at the Battle of Norden, Frisia.)
Marriage Information:
Gertrud also married Mkgf. Heinrich I VON MEISSEN, Graf von Eilenburg, Markgraf der Niederlausitz, son of Dedo II VON WETTIN and Adèle DE LOUVAIN, in 1101/2. (Heinrich I VON MEISSEN was born about 1070 and died in 1103.)
