Blessed Gertrude of Trzebnica

Memorial

• 17 March

Profile

Daughter of Saint Hedwig of Silesia and Duke Henry I. Engaged to the Count Palatine Otto of Wittelsbach, but he died before the wedding. Cistercian nun and then abbess in Trzebnica, Poland.

Born

• c.1200

Died

• December 1268 in Trzebnica, Poland of natural causes

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Heiligen 3s
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Gertrude of Trzebnica“. Saints.SQPN.com. 16 March 2013. Web. 23 May 2013. <>