Gisela of Friuli explained

Type:monarch
Gisela
Succession:Countess of Ivrea
Spouses:Adalbert I of Ivrea
Issue:Berengar II of Italy
Bertha, abbess of Modena
Father:Berengar I of Italy
Mother:Bertila of Spoleto
Birth Date: 876
Death Date:after 23 January 913
Religion:Catholic Church

Gisela of Friuli (also Gisla) (876 – after 23 January 913) was a medieval Italian noblewoman. She was the daughter of Berengar I of Italy and Bertila of Spoleto.[1] Through her marriage to Adalbert I of Ivrea, Gisela was countess of Ivrea, and mother of Berengar II of Italy.

Life

Little is known about Gisela's life. Her father was Berengar I of Italy, who was margrave of Friuli and who became king of Italy during Gisela's childhood.[2] Gisela's mother was probably Bertila, Berengar's first wife, whom he married in 875. Gisela is thus presumed to have been born after 876.[1] Gisela's sister, Bertha, later became abbess of Santa Giulia in Brescia.Gisela married Adalbert I of Ivrea sometime between 898 and 905, and probably by 902/3.[3] This was a political alliance which was intended to reconcile Adalbert and Gisela's father, Berengar I of Italy.[4] Gisela and Adalbert's son, Berengar II of Italy, must have been born by 903, as by 918 he was fifteen years old, and was named count and imperial missus.[5] When Gisela died is not known: she was still alive in January 913, when her father, Berengar, issued a diploma referring to her husband Adalbert as his son-in-law (gener noster),[6] but by 915 Adalbert had married Ermengarde of Tuscany, suggesting that Gisela had died.[4]

Issue

With Adalbert, Gisela had at least two children:

Note

  1. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/gisla_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ Bedino, ‘Gisla’
  2. Liutprand of Cremona, Antapodosis, II.33, II.56; trans. Squatriti, Complete Works, pp. 91, 106.
  3. Rosenwein, 'Family politics,' p. 274; Hlawitschka, Franken, pp. 100, 104 Bedina, ‘Gisla’.
  4. Gina Fasoli, «ADALBERTO d'Ivrea». In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume I, Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1960
  5. Codex diplomaticus Langobardiae, no. 34.
  6. https://archive.org/details/idiplomidibereng00ital/page/232 Schiaparelli, Diplomi di Berengario, no. LXXXVII (26 January 913)

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