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Gisela, (in or before 781 – 808 or later) was a daughter of Charlemagne from his marriage to Hildegard. She was baptized at the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in 781 by Thomas, Archbishop of Milan. She was educated at the castle in Aachen, with Alcuin who gave her the nickname "Delia".
- in or before 781
- Charlemagne
There are also two variations of her name, which are Gisele and Giselle. She was the daughter of Pepin the Short and his wife Bertrada of Laon. She was the sister of Charlemagne and Carloman. Life. Gisela is often said to be the only sister to Charlemagne and Carloman, but this was not the case.
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Apr 20, 2012 · Meet Gisela, Daughter of Charlemagne. Gisela was probably born sometime between 770 and 781. No birth date was ever recorded for her. She was the second or third daughter of King Charles of the Franks (Charlemagne) and his wife, Hildegard of Savoy. Gisela’s mother was Charlemagne’s first wife.
Frankish princess and abbess. Name variations: Gisele, Giselle. Born in 781 at Aachen, France; died around 814; daughter of Charles I also known as Charlemagne (742–814), king of the Franks (r. 768–814), Holy Roman emperor (r. 800–814), and Hildegarde of Swabia (c. 757–783); never married; no children. Gisela of Chelles was the daughter ...
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Roughly between the 789 and 1100 CE, the looters and robbers later known as Vikings were the terror of Europe and its surroundings. Their attacks formed a recurring problem for many coastal cities, also in West Francia. This empire, also known by the Latin name of Francia Occidentalis, came into being in 843 CE, with the Treaty of Verdun. Initially...
In his Historia Normannorum(written between 996 and 1015 CE), the Norman historian Dudo de Saint Quentin (c. 965 - c. 1043 CE) introduces us to the Francian princess: The princess was thus given away to this Rollo, whose Old Norse name probably was Hrólfr. Dudo also grants the title of “duke” to this famous Viking warrior, even though the title duk...
While various historical records - like the Historia Normannorum and The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy- cite a Gisela as one of the daughters of Charles the Simple and the genealogy of Count Arnulf of Flanders (950's CE) names a Gisla as one of the daughters of King Charles, the absence of historical records written at the time of ...
In The Last Kingdom, Gisela is one of the wives of the main character Uhtred of Bebbanburg (based on the historical Uhtred the Bold, who lived a century later). In this series, Gisela and her brother, the later King Guthred of Northumbria, are the children of a Danish jarl who settled in Cumbraland (modern Cumbria). The character of Gisela was inve...
Gisela (757 - 810): Charlemagne’s Scholarly Sister, Abbess of Chelles. Gisela was likely born in 757 and was the only daughter of Pippin the Short, King of the Franks and his wife, Bertrada of Laon. Gisela had two older brothers, Charles (747/8 – 814), the future Charlemagne and Carloman I (751-771).
The Carolingian dynasty had multiple losses in 810 and 811, as Charlemagne's sister Gisela, his daughter Rotrude, and his sons Pepin the Hunchback, Pepin of Italy, and Charles the Younger died. The deaths of Charles the Younger and Pepin of Italy left Charlemagne's earlier plans for succession in disarray.
