Gisela (daughter of Louis the Pious)

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Gisela , also Gisla , ( French Gisèle * to 819 / 822 ; † after 874 ) was the daughter of Emperor Louis the Pious and his wife Judith .

Gisela married Eberhard , Margrave of Friuli, before the year 840, probably around 836 , and had ten children with him:

  1. Eberhard (837 – after June 20, 840).
  2. Ingeltrud von Friuli (around 836–867), married Heinrich (around 830–886), Margrave of Neustria
  3. Balance III. (about 840–874), husband of Ava von Tours.
  4. Berengar I (around 843–924), husband of Bertila von Spoleto , elected King of the Lombards in Pavia in 888 and Roman-German Emperor in 915 .
  5. Adalhard († after July 1, 874). Abbot of Cysoing .
  6. Rudolf († May 1, 892). Abbot of Cysoing and Saint-Vaast d'Arras . In 883 it received from Karlmann Artois and Ternoise , which Baldwin II confiscated on his death .
  7. Alpais, died young and buried in the Abbey of Sainte-Calixte de Cysoing
  8. Heilwig von Friuli (around 855– around 895), married around 874 Huchald (Hucbald) von Ostervant († after 890) and then possibly Roger I (around 867–926) Count of Laon.
  9. Gisela († around 863), nun in the Abbey of San Salvatore in Brescia .
  10. Judith of Friuli (863–881), wife of Conrad II , Margrave of Transjurania and Count of Auxerre .

In 836 Ludwig the Pious gave his daughter Gisela and her husband Eberhard von Friuli the villages of Ascq , Flers and Gruson as dowry.

Together with her husband, Gisela founded the Abbey of Sainte-Calixte de Cysoing . Together, even as laypeople, they oriented themselves towards spiritual values ​​and followed the example of the court of Charlemagne .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Évrard (Eberhard) sur le site Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
  2. ^ "Ascq sous Charlemagne en l'an 800", Part. 1, Chap. 2, pages 13 to 16, Essai de l'histoire d'Ascq et de ses environs , P. Delebart, Imprimerie R. Boulonnais, Ascq, 1952.
  3. ↑ Lettre à un académicien d'Arras sur la princesse Gisèle, fille de Louis le Débonnaire, et sur la date du testament du Comte Evrard, son époux, fondateur de l'église de Cysoing, 1779, [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Gisela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gisèle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Emperor Ludwig the Pious and his wife Judith
DATE OF BIRTH at 819 or at 822
DATE OF DEATH after 874