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    Gertrude of Nivelles, OSB (also spelled Geretrude, Geretrudis, Gertrud; c. 628 – 17 March 659) was a seventh-century abbess who, with her mother Itta,...
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    The Collegiate Church of St. Gertrude has been classified as a heritage site of Wallonia. Starting in 4,000 BC, the Nivelles region was gradually turned...
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  • Monaca a Nivelles" [Saint Ida (Ita) Nun in Nivelles] (in Italian). Santi e beati. Retrieved 9 September 2022. Ott, Michael. "St. Gertrude of Nivelles." The...
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  • Saint Gertrude, St Gertrude, or St Gertrude's may refer to: Gertrude of Nivelles (626–659), founded the Abbey of Nivelles located in present-day Belgium...
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    The Collegiate Church of St. Gertrude (French: Collégiale Sainte-Gertrude) is a Roman Catholic collegiate church in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Belgium...
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  • of Nivelles (c. 628–659), seventh-century abbess, co-founder of the Abbey of Nivelles located in present-day Belgium Gertrud Orff (1914–2000), one of...
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    Nivelles Abbey (French: Abbaye de Nivelles) is a former Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire founded in 640. It is located in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant...
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    tale. Gertrude of Nivelles is the patron saint of murophobia, and is also invoked against rats and mice in general. An exaggerated, phobic fear of mice...
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    Begga (category Christian female saints of the Middle Ages)
    the grandfather of Charlemagne. The daughter of Pepin of Landen and his wife, Itta, Begga was the older sister of St Gertrude of Nivelles. She married Ansegisel...
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    The envoys are detained. March 17 – Gertrude of Nivelles, daughter of Pepin of Landen (mayor of the palace of Austrasia), requests on her deathbed a...
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    Andenne (redirect from Castle of Maizeret)
    Begga in Andenne. Gertrude of Nivelles, (ca.628–659), abbess, who, with her mother Itta, founded the Nivelles Abbey; younger sister of St. Begga. Carl Johan...
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    Plérin, France Rode Castle Church of Saint Gertrude of Nivelles Church tower of the Church of Saint Gertrude of Nivelles Ferdinand Schmetz Square Pronounced...
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    Gudula (redirect from Gudula of Brussels)
    hands of Saint Aubert, Bishop of Cambrai (d. about 668). Gudula was educated in Nivelles Abbey by her godmother, Gertrude of Nivelles. When Gertrude died...
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  • regent of Hungary Saint Gertrude of Nivelles (c.626–659), daughter of Pepin I and founder of the Nivelles monastery Gertrude of Poland (c. 1025–1108),...
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    Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. The city, named after Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, received city rights in 1213 from the count of Holland. The fortified...
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    Utrecht (redirect from City of Utrecht)
    the 13th-century Geertekerk (dedicated to Saint Gertrude of Nivelles). Its location on the banks of the river Rhine allowed Utrecht to become an important...
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    prison of the Austrian Netherlands was opened here in 1779. Nivelles: south of Brussels. Known for its church and as the birthplace of Saint Gertrude of Nivelles...
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    Kakwkylla (category Female saints of medieval Sweden)
    of Gertrude of Nivelles. The cult probably spread to Sweden from Germany. In Sweden, where Columba was not widely venerated nor Gertrude of Nivelles associated...
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    629) Gertrude of Nivelles, Frankish abbess (d. 659) Suraqah al-Bariqi, Arab poet (d. 698) November 15 – Malo, Welsh bishop Dou Jiande, general of the Sui...
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    Amandus (redirect from Amand of Maastricht)
    with the family of Pepin of Landen and helped Gertrude of Nivelles and her mother Itta establishing the famous monastery of Nivelles. At the same time...
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    Encyclopedia thus mentions strings of beads, presumably for prayer, found in the tombs of Saint Gertrude of Nivelles (7th century) and Saint Norbert and...
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    possessions of the Abbey of Nivelles. The land of Villers had been divested by the count of Hainaut to the monastery founded by Gertrude of Nivelles. Pledged...
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    Cölln (category Zones of Berlin)
    construction erected in 1916, the Gertraudenbrücke with the statue of Saint Gertrude of Nivelles by the sculptor Rudolf Siemering from 1896 and the small Jungfernbrücke...
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    shee) meaning fairy. In Christianity, the patron saint of cats is Saint Gertrude of Nivelles. The Cat Duet (Duetto buffo di due gatti), attributed to...
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    (died 652) Begga, abbess of Andenne (died 693) Gertrude of Nivelles, abbess of Nivelles (died 658) presented in The Life of St. Geretrude (in Fouracre...
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    the Hermit, with a raven; St. Gertrude of Nivelles, with a cat, etc. The Bible, also, gives some motives, as the ram of Isaac, the golden calf, the brazen...
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    Walloon Brabant (category NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union)
    district (arrondissement in French), the arrondissement of Nivelles, with 27 municipalities. Nivelles District: Beauvechain (Bevekom) Braine-l'Alleud (Eigenbrakel)...
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    daughter Gertrude and wife Itta founded and entered the Nivelles Abbey, and his only son Grimoald worked to secure his father's position of maior palatii...
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    Christian feast day: Alexius of Rome (Eastern Church) Gertrude of Nivelles John Sarkander Joseph of Arimathea (Western Church) Patrick of Ireland March 17 (Eastern...
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  • The envoys are detained. March 17 – Gertrude of Nivelles, daughter of Pepin of Landen (mayor of the palace of Austrasia), requests on her deathbed a...
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