Gertrude (Dabo) de Dabo (abt. 1190 - bef. 1225)

Born about 1190 in Duché de Lorraine

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Biography

Gertrude de Dabo (1190/1200 - + before March 19, 1225) was the only daughter and since the death in 1202 of her two brothers the heiress of Albert II of Dabo-Moha , count of Metz , Dabo and Moha , one of the most powerful families in the country, after the Dukes of Lorraine. She was on her own right Countess of Metz and Dabo ( Dagsburg in German ), the County of Moha having been sold to the Prince-Bishop of Liege in 1204 , without ever paying the 50,000 Marcs specified in the contract.

Gertrude became a countess on the death of her father in 1212 , when she was not yet married to Thiebaud , who soon became Duke of Lorraine (1213), according to the Vitæ Odiliæ .. Due to their marriage in 1215 her husband took charge of the management of his inheritance, but he died at the beginning of the year 1220 without leaving any descendants.

May 1220, against the intentions of Emperor Frederick II, she married Thibaud IV de Champagne , who was still a teenager. In 1222 Thibaud repudiated it either for consanguinity or for sterility

1223 third marriage with Simon of Linange (house of Saarbrücken), which disappears before his father Friedrich II , in 1214 Count of Linange; she died in 1225 and was buried in Sturzelbronn Abbey .

Sources

• Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A Prosopography of Medieval European Noble and Royal Families, Online at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy Website (accessed 23 Jan 2022). Alsace Chapter 5 B Grafen von Egisheim und Dagsburg (Moha)
• Anstett, Jérôme. Le Navire de Pierre, Histoire du Rocher de Dabo. p58-62. Sarrebourg, France: Reproservice, 2021.
• Wikipedia Getrude de Dabo