Gisela of Burgundy
Gisela of Burgundy | |
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Duchess consort of Bavaria | |
Tenure | 972–976 985–995 |
Born | c. 955 |
Died | 21 July 1007 Regensburg, Bavaria |
Burial | |
Spouse | Henry II, Duke of Bavaria |
Issue | |
House | Elder House of Welf |
Father | Conrad I of Burgundy |
Mother | Adelaide of Bellay |
Gisela of Burgundy (c. 955 – 21 July 1007), a member of the royal
Life
Gisela was the eldest daughter of King Conrad I of Burgundy (c. 925 – 993), presumably from his first marriage with Adelaide of Bellay.[1] After her mother's death, King Conrad married Matilda, a daughter of the West Frankish king Louis IV; among her half-siblings were Rudolph III, who succeeded his father as King of Arles (Bourgogne Transjurane in French or 'King of Burgundy') and Bertha, who married King Robert II of France in 996.
Gisela's father ruled over the united
About 965 Gisela was betrothed to Otto's nephew Henry the Wrangler, who then ruled as
Gisela's husband revolted immediately, when upon the death of Henry's brother-in-law Duke
Henry was not released until the emperor's death in 983. He again tried to snatch the crown from the minor successor Otto III, however, with the intervention by Dowager Empress Theophanu and her predecessor, Gisela's aunt Adelaide of Burgundy, he finally submitted in 985 and regained his Bavarian duchy.
Marriage and children
With Henry, Gisela had three children:
- Duke of Bavaria in 995, fulfilled his father's ambitions when he was elected King of the Romans (as Henry II) in 1002 and crowned Holy Roman Emperorin 1014
- Bruno (died 1029), Bishop of Augsburg from 1006
- Gisela (c.985–1060), married King Stephen I of Hungary.
Henry II was already mentioned as a Bavarian condux in 994. Gisela lived to see her son's accession to the throne in the royal election of 1002. According to the chronicles by Thietmar of Merseburg, she died on 21 July 1007. She was buried in the abbey of Niedermünster, Regensburg. Her daughter Gisela of Hungary donated an opulent burial cross, known as Giselakreuz, which today is part of the collections at the Munich Residenz treasury.
References
- ^ a b Burgundian Notes , Reginald L. Poole, The English Historical Review, Vol. 26, No. 102 (Apr., 1911), 314–315.
- ^ Burgundy and Provence, 879–1032, Constance Brittain Bourchard, The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 3, C.900-c.1024, ed. Rosamond McKitterick and Timothy Reuter, (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 342.