Career
Getrude was born to Henry the Lion of Bavaria and Saxony and Clementia of Zähringen in either 1552 or 1555. In 1171 she was engaged and in February 1177 married to Prince Canute of Denmark in Lund. The couple lived the first years in Skåne.
On 12 May 1182, she became queen.
She did not have any children.