Gisela of Friuli

Female ~876 - Aft 913


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  • Name Gisela of Friuli 
    Birth ~876 
    Gender Female 
    Death Aft 23 Jan 913 
    Person ID I10386  Database
    Last Modified 9 Jan 2021 

    Father Berengar I of Italy,   b. ~845   d. 9 Apr 924 
    Mother Bertila of Spoleto,   b. ~860   d. Dec 915 
    Family ID F4311  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Spouse / Partner Adalbert I of Ivrea   d. Aft 28 Feb 929 
    Children 
       1. Male Berengar II of Italy
    Family ID F4312  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Jan 2021 

  • Notes 
    • Gisela of Friuli (also Gisla) (c. 876 - after 23 January 913) was a medieval Italian noblewoman. She was the daughter of Berengar I of Italy and Bertilla of Spoleto. Through her marriage to Adalbert I of Ivrea, Gisela was countess of Ivrea, and mother of Berengar II of Italy.
      Little is known about Gisela's life. Her father was Berengar I, who was margrave of Friuli and who became King of Italy during Gisela's childhood. Gisela's mother was probably Bertilla, Berengar's first wife, whom he married in 875. Gisela is thus presumed to have been born after c. 876. 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. This was a political alliance which was intended to reconcile Adalbert and Gisela's father, Berengar I of Italy. 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. 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), but by 915 Adalbert had married Ermengarde of Tuscany, suggesting that Gisela had died.