Gertrude of Flanders, Countess of Savoy

Gertrude of Flanders (1135?1186) was a Countess Consort of Savoy by marriage to Humbert III, Count of Savoy.

She was the daughter of Thierry, Count of Flanders , and his second wife Sibylla of Anjou . In 1155, she married Humbert III, Count of Savoy , but he divorced and imprisoned her in 1163. She was freed thanks to Robert, bishop of Cambrai, and returned to the court of her brother, Philip of Flanders . She then returned to Flanders.

She remarried Hughues d'Oisy in 1168; the marriage was annulled in 1173, and she retired to a convent. ^[1] She had no children. In 1177, she agreed to abstain for her right to Flanders in favor of her sister Margaret I, Countess of Flanders .

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^ Frederic Auguste Ferdinand de Reiffenberg , Coup d’œil sur les relations qui ont existe jadis entre la Belgique et la Savoie : sur le melange curieux de l'histoire sacree et profane , Brussels, Jean Brandmuller, 1840, 71 p.

Preceded by Faidiva of Toulouse	Countess of Savoy 1155?1162	Succeeded by Clementia of Zahringen

[1] Frederic Auguste Ferdinand de Reiffenberg , Coup d’œil sur les relations qui ont existe jadis entre la Belgique et la Savoie : sur le melange curieux de l'histoire sacree et profane , Brussels, Jean Brandmuller, 1840, 71 p.

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