Gertrude Explained

Gertrude or Gertrud may refer to:

Places

In space

• Gertrude (crater), a crater on Uranus's moon Titania
• 710 Gertrud, a minor planet

Terrestrial placenames

• Gertrude, Arkansas
• Gertrude, Washington
• Gertrude, West Virginia

People

• Gertrude (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)

People with Gertrude as the full name:

• Blessed Gertrude of Aldenberg (1227–1297), daughter of Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia and abbess near Trier
• Gertrude of Austria (1226–1288), Duchess of Austria and Styria
• Gertrude of Babenberg (c. 1118–1150), Duchess of Bohemia
• Gertrude of Baden (c. 1160–1225), Margravine of Baden
• Gertrude of Bavaria (died 1197), daughter of Henry the Lion, Queen consort of Denmark
• Gertrude of Brunswick (c. 1060–1117), Margravine of Frisia and Meissen
• Gertrude of Comburg (died 1130), Queen consort of Germany
• Gertrude of Dagsburg (died 1225), Duchess of Lorraine
• Gertrude of Delft (died 1358), Dutch Beguine and mystic
• Gertrude of Flanders, Countess of Savoy (1135–1186)
• Gertrude of Flanders, Duchess of Lorraine (c. 1070–1117)
• Gertrude of Hackeborn (1223–1292), Abbess of Helfta
• Saint Gertrude of Hamage (died 649), 7th century saint, founder of the convent Hamage near Douai
• Saint Gertrude of Helfta or Gertrude the Great (1256–c. 1302), German Benedictine, mystic, and theologian, Patroness of the West Indies
• Gertrude of Hohenberg (c. 1225–1281), Queen consort of Germany
• Gertrude of Merania (1185–1213), Queen consort and regent of Hungary
• Saint Gertrude of Nivelles (c.626–659), daughter of Pepin I and founder of the Nivelles monastery
• Gertrude of Poland (1025–1108), Grand Princess Consort of Kiev
• Gertrude of Saxony or Gertrude of Holland (ca.1030-1113), wife of Robert I of Flanders, regent of Holland
• Gertrude of Sulzbach (c. 1110–1146), Queen consort of Germany
• Gertrude of Süpplingenburg (1115–1143), Duchess of Bavaria and Saxony

Art, entertainment, and media

• Gertrude (given name)#Fictional characters, a list of fictional characters with this given name
• Gertrud (film), 1964 Danish film based on Söderberg's play
• Gertrud (novel), by Hermann Hesse
• Gertrud (play), by Hjalmar Söderberg

Ships

• Alice Gertrude (1898–1907), an American steamship that operated in the Pacific Northwest
• Gertrude (1841–1845), a copper sheathed ship chartered by the New Zealand Company
• Gertrude (1843–1864), a Newfoundland-built brig that operated in Australia
• Gertrude L. Thebaud (1930–1948), an American fishing and racing schooner
• HM Hired armed schooner Gertrude (lost 1804), a hired schooner that served in the Royal Navy in 1804
• TSS Gertrude (1905–1962), a British passenger steamship
• USS Gertrude (1862–1880), a British steamship captured by the US Navy and pressed into service as a gunboat during the American Civil War

Other uses

• Gertrude (code name), an invasion plan for Turkey by Nazi Germany
• Gertrude, an underwater telephone used by submarines for communication
• .Gertrude, an Esoteric programming language

See also

• Trudy