Gisele de Bourgogne
General Notes: GISELE de Bourgogne ([1075]-after 1133). Her parentage is deduced from Suger saying that her daughter Adelaide, wife of Louis VI "le Gros" King of France, was the niece of Pope Calixtus II. This is corroborated by "Guido Viennensis archiepiscopus" (later Pope Calixtus II) addressing a letter to "nepoti suo Amedeo comiti" (Amedée III Comte de Savoie, son of Gisèle by her first marriage) dated [1115]. Her date of birth is estimated from her having given birth to five children by her second husband whom she married in [1105], and assuming that she was no more than 17 years old when she gave birth to her first child by her first husband. Her second marriage is confirmed by Orderic Vitalis who records the marriage of Guillaume de Normandie and the daughter of Raniero III Marchese di Monferrato, naming both the bride's parents and specifying that the marriage was arranged by the bride's uterine half-sister, Adélaïde de Maurienne Queen of France. Gisele married Humbert II de Savoie Comte de Maurienne et de Savoie, son of Amédée [II] de Savoie Comte de Savoie, Marchese di Susa and Jeanne, about 1090.1 (Humbert II de Savoie Comte de Maurienne et de Savoie was born about 1072,1 died on 19 Oct 1103 in Moûtiers, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, 73600, FR 1 and was buried in Moûtiers, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, 73600, FR 1.) Gisele next married Ranieri di Monferrato Marchese di Monferrato, son of Guglielmo [III] di Monferrato Marchese di Ravenna and Otta di Agledo, about 1105.1 (Ranieri di Monferrato Marchese di Monferrato died between 1135 and 1137 1.) |