Knud VI and Gertrud of Saxony and Bavaria

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Name: Knud IV

English Name: Canute VI

Birth: 1162

Child of: Valdemar I and Sophia of Polotsk (Minsk)

Reign: 1182-1202

Marriage: 1177 to Gertrud of Saxony and Bavaria

Children: Alledgedly none.

Death: 12. November 1202

Throne passed to: Valdemar II (the Victorious/Sejr)

Notes:

His expansions in Germany made Denmark a powerful state in Northern Europe.

 

[Blog Real]

Contemporary donor portrait of Knud VI in Stehag Church, Scania.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Nordenskirker_Stehag(57).jpg

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Gertrude of Bavaria (1152/55-1197) was the daughter of Henry the Lion of Bavaria and Saxony and Clementia of Zahringen.
http://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/wp-content/uploads/Gertrude_de_Saxe1.png

 

[An Ard Ri]

Gertrude of Bavaria (1152/55-1197) was the daughter of Henry the Lion of Bavaria and Saxony and Clementia of Zahringen.
http://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/wp-content/uploads/Gertrude_de_Saxe1.png

An engraving of Getrude of Bavaria and Saxony,Queen of Denmark (1182-1197)