Gisela of Nivelles

Gisela von Nevilles (also Gisla ; * between 860 and 865 ; † between June 21 and October 26, 907 ) was a daughter of the Carolingian King Lothar II of Lorraine and his Friedelfrau Waldrada .

Gisela was the sister of Hugo , to whom Lothar II transferred the Duchy of Alsace in 867 . During the Viking raids in the Rhineland in 882, peace negotiations were held between the Viking leader Gottfried and Karl III. In the course of this peace the Viking was baptized and got the Frankish princess Gisela as his Christian wife.

Gottfried soon turned out to be a broken word and invaded the Rhineland again in the summer. Charles III thereupon instructed his Duke Count Heinrich von Babenberg to go into the field against him.

In 884 Heinrich von Babenberg wrested the city of Duisburg from Gottfried, which had been conquered by the Normans in 883, and drove him from the Lower Rhine . When Gottfried returned to the Rhineland with an army in 885, he was lured into an ambush by Count Babenberg and killed together with other Viking leaders. His wife Gisela had previously been brought to a safe monastery in May 885 to protect the king's daughter from the vengeance of the Vikings.

Gisela later became abbess of Nivelles and Fosses .

Web links

• Gisela Abbess of Nivelles in Genealogy Middle Ages