When Gertrud Andersdotter was born on 6 November 1763, in Bara, Malmöhus, Sweden, her father, Anders Pehrson, was 47 and her mother, Bengta Larsdotter, was 34. She died on 12 February 1771, in Bara, Malmöhus, Sweden, at the age of 7, and was buried in Bara, Malmöhus, Sweden.
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from gēr, gār ‘spear’ + þrūþ ‘strength’; the name of two famous 13th-century nuns of the Cistercian Abbey of Helfta near Eisleben, whose spiritual writings had a great influence.
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