Gisela, daughter of Charlemagne

Gisela, (in or before 781 – 808 or later) was a daughter of Charlemagne from his marriage to Hildegard.

[1] She was baptized at the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in 781 by Thomas, Archbishop of Milan.

[2] She was educated at the castle in Aachen, with Alcuin who gave her the nickname "Delia".

[5][6] Like her sisters Bertha and Rotrude, Gisela never married.

[citation needed] Sources vary regarding her later life, some sources state 808 as a death date,[7] others state that in 814 she was sent to a convent by her brother Louis the Pious.