(Abbess of Chelles) Gisela of CAROLINGIAN #49514

ABT 757 - BET 810 AND 811
TITLE Abbess of Chelles-
BIRTH ABT 757, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
DEATH BET 810 AND 811, Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France

Historical Notes

Gisela was born in 757 AD in Aachen, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and was the daughter of Pepin the Short and his wife Bertrada of Laon. She was the sister of Charlemagne and Carloman. Early in life she was betrothed to Leo, the son of Byzantine Emperor Constantine V (the future Emperor Leo IV) but the contract was broken. There is also a brief mention of Gisela being betrothed to Adalgis, son of the Lombard king Desiderius in 770, but this also fell through, and it is likely that by this point she had been allowed to choose a life of religion for herself. The specific year of her death is unknown, but she died between 810-11 AD in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France, in the convent she had served for most of her life, aged between 53 and 54.

Parents

Father : Pepin III CAROLINGIAN #49503

Mother : Bertrada of PIPPINID-ARNULFING #49510

Lineage 

                                                                   _Pepin II PIPPINID-ARNULFING _+
                                                                  | (0635 - 0714) m 0635         
                                   _Charles CAROLINGIAN __________|
                                  | (0676 - 0741)                 |
                                  |                               |_Alpaïdis of AUSTRASIA ______
                                  |                                 (0654 - 0714) m 0635         
 _Pepin III CAROLINGIAN __________|
| (0714 - 0768) m 0741            |
|                                 |                                _Lambert II MEROVINGIAN ______+
|                                 |                               | (0669 - 0741)                
|                                 |_Rotrude of MEROVINGIAN _______|
|                                   (0690 - 0724)                 |
|                                                                 |_Chrotelinde of NEUSTRIA _____
|                                                                   (0670 - ....)                
|
|--Gisela of CAROLINGIAN 
|  (0757 - 0810)
|                                                                  _Martin PIPPINID-ARNULFING ___+
|                                                                 | (0647 - ....)                
|                                  _Charibert PIPPINID-ARNULFING _|
|                                 | (0690 - 0747)                 |
|                                 |                               |_Bertrada of MEROVINGIAN _____+
|                                 |                                 (0670 - 0720)                
|_Bertrada of PIPPINID-ARNULFING _|
  (0710 - 0783) m 0741            |
                                  |                                ______________________________
                                  |                               |                              
                                  |_Gisele of AQUITAINE __________|
                                                                  |
                                                                  |______________________________

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