Gisela of Burgundy, Marchioness of Montferrat

Gisela of Burgundy
Spouse(s)	Umberto II, Count of Savoy Rainier I of Montferrat
Noble family	House of Ivrea
Father	William I, Count of Burgundy
Mother	Stephanie
Born	1075
Died	May 1135

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 whom she married in 1105. 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^[1]
• William V of Montferrat
• Matilda, wife of Alberto of Parodi, Margrave of Parodi
• Adelasia, a nun
• Isabella, wife of Guido, Count of Biandrate

References

1. Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Herausgegeben von Detlev Schwennicke (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafeln 81, 200