Bertha of Putelendorf

'''Bertha von Putelendorf''' (died after 1182) may have been the daughter of Count Palatine Friedrich IV von Putelendorf in [[Duchy of Saxony|Saxony]] and his wife Agnes of Limburg, daughter of [[Henry, Duke of Lower Lorraine]]. According to a secondary source, she was the daughter of the Count Palatine of Saxony.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Spangenberg |first=C |title=Hennebergische Chronica |year=1599 |location=Strasbourg |pages=91 |language=de}}</ref> If this were true, from a chronological standpoint, her father would most likely be Friedrich IV von Putelendorf in Saxony. A woman named Bertha, possibly Bertha von Putelendorf, is recorded as the mother of [[Poppo VI, Count of Henneberg]], as well as [[Irmingard of Henneberg|Irmgard]] and Liutgarde.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Schoettgen |first=C. |title=Diplomataria et Scriptores Historiæ Germanicæ Medii Aevi |last2=Kreysig |first2=G. C. |year=1760 |series=3 |volume=3 |location=Altenburg |pages=532}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gruner |first=J.F. |title=Opuscula ad illustrandam historiam Germaniæ |year=1761 |series=2 |volume=7 |location=Coburg |pages=294}}</ref>

She married Berthold I, [[County of Henneberg|Count of Henneberg]] (died 1159?), and had three surviving children: *[[Poppo VI, Count of Henneberg]] (a son, died 14 June 1190)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Historia Brevis Principum Thuringiæ |series=4 |volume=MGH SS XXIV |pages=820}}</ref> *[[Irmingard of Henneberg|Irmgard of Henneberg]] (a daughter, died 15 July 1197)<ref name=":0" /> *Liutgarde of Henneberg (a daughter, died 22 November 1220),<ref name=":0" /> married Adalbert von Sommerschenberg<ref>{{Cite book |title=Annales Stadenses |series=MGH SS |volume=XVI |pages=326}}</ref> Bertha was also the grandmother of [[Agnes of Hohenstaufen]] through her daughter Irmgard von Henneberg.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Chronicon Sancti Michaelis Luneburgensis |series=MGH SS |volume=XXIII |page= |pages=396-7}}</ref>{{authority control}}

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