Brief Life History of Gertrud
When Gertrud von Hohenberg was born in 1225, in Schwaben, Dürrenuhlsdorf, Kreis Chemnitzer-Land, Saxony, Germany, her father, Burkhard V. Graf von Hohenberg, was 25 and her mother, Mechthild von Tübingen, was 30. She married Rudolf I. von Habsburg römisch-deutscher König in 1251. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 16 February 1281, in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 56, and was buried in Carinthia, Austria.
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- Gertrud Anna von Hohenberg, "Find A Grave Index"
- Genealogie Mittelaltet - Gertrud Anna von Hohenberg
- Wikipedia (D) - Gertrud von Hohenberg
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Name Meaning
Altered form of Welsh Vaughan .
Chinese: variant of Wong .
Cambodian: written វ៉ុន, unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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