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Gisela of Burgundy, Marchioness of Montferrat

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Noble family
  
House of Ivrea

Mother
  
Stephanie


Name
  
Gisela Burgundy,

Died
  
1133

Father
  
William I, Count of Burgundy

Role
  
Humbert II, Count of Savoy's wife

Parents
  
William I, Count of Burgundy

Spouse
  
Rainier, Marquess of Montferrat (m. 1105–1133), Humbert II, Count of Savoy (m. 1090–1103)

Children
  
Adelaide of Maurienne, Amadeus III, Count of Savoy

Grandchildren
  
Louis VII of France, Philip of France

Similar People
  
Pope Callixtus II, Louis VI of France, Louis VII of France, Raymond of Burgundy

Gisela of Burgundy (1075–1135), was a Countess consort of Savoy and a Marchioness consort of Montferrat. She was the spouse of Humbert II, Count of Savoy and later of Rainier I of Montferrat the latter whom she married Humbert's death. She was the daughter of William I, Count of Burgundy.

With her first husband, Humbert II of Savoy, whom she married in 1090, her children included:

  • Amadeus III of Savoy
  • William, Bishop of Liège
  • Adelaide of Maurienne (d. 1154), wife of King Louis VI of France
  • Agnes, (d. 1127), wife of Arcimboldo VI, lord of Bourbon
  • Humbert
  • Reginald
  • Guy, abbot of Namur
  • By her second marriage to Rainier, Marquess of Montferrat, her children were:

  • Joanna, who married William Clito, Count of Flanders, in 1127, and was widowed a year later
  • William V of Montferrat
  • Matilda, wife of Alberto of Parodi, Margrave of Parodi
  • Adelasia, a nun
  • Isabella, wife of Guido, Count of Biandrate
  • References

    Gisela of Burgundy, Marchioness of Montferrat Wikipedia