Gisèle de Bourgogne

Events

Date of Birth: about 1075.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Date of Death: after 1133.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Guillaume I “le Grand”, count of Burgundy.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (8:411), by Cokayne (p. 80), by Bouchard (p. 273), and by Dufour (fig. 7).

Mother: Etiennette.

This relationship is given by Bouchard (p. 273) and by Cawley, who discusses conjectures about her ancestry. Dufour (fig.7) gives her as Étiennette de Vienne.

Spouse: Humbert II “le Renforcé”, count of Maurienne and of Savoy.

This relationship is given by Cokayne (pp. 80, 88), by Previté-Orton (p. 270), by Palluel-Guillard, and by Dufour (fig. 7).

Spouse: Ranieri, margrave of Montferrat.

This relationship is given by Dufour (fig. 7).

Children (by Humbert):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Adélaïde (1092 - 18 November 1154) married Louis VI “le Gros”, king of France.

Amédée III (1095 - 30 August 1148), count of Maurienne and of Savoy, married (1) Adélaïde; married (2) Mathilde d’Albon.

Guillaume (died about 1130 - 1131), bishop of Liège.

Humbert (died 1131).

Guy, abbot of Namur.

Reinald (died after 1150), prior of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Maurice d’Agaune.

Agnès (1105 - 1180) married Archambault VII de Bourbon.

Children (by Ranieri):

Giovanna (about 1107 - 1191) married Guillaume I, count of Flanders.

Guglielmo V “il Vecchio” (1110 - 1191), margrave of Montferrat, married Judith, daughter of Leopold III “der Heilige”, Markgrave of Austria.

Matilda (died after 1166) married Alberto di Massa, margrave of Gavi and Parodi.

Adalasia. Nun in Provence.

Isabella married Guido, count of Biandrate.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Bouchard, Constance Brittain. Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198 (Cornell University Press, 1987).

Cawley, Charles. “GISELE de Bourgogne” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

Palluel-Guillard, André. “Humbert II” in La Maison de Savoie at sabaudia.org.

Previté-Orton, Charles William. The Early History of the House of Savoy (1000 - 1233). (Cambridge University Press: 1912).