Gisela

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Gisela (757 – 810) was the only daughter of Pippin the Younger and his wife Bertrada of Laon. She was the sister of Charlemagne and Carloman. Charlemagne's biographer Einhard states that Gisela had been dedicated to religion since her childhood. She became a nun at the abbey of Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, where she was eventually made abbess. According to Einhard she had good relations with her brother Charlemagne, who "treated her with the same respect which he showed his mother." She died in 810 at the convent she had served for most of her life.

The king and his wife Hildegard of Savoy named their daughter after Gisela. Gisela the younger may have lived from 781 to 808, but little else is known of her life.

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