X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Gisela


Gisela, Abbess of Chelles

Gisela (757–810) was the daughter of Pepin the Short and his wife Bertrada of Laon.

Gisela the Younger may have lived from 781 to 808, but little else is known of her life.

Gisela!

It was first performed in the Maschinenhalle Zeche Zweckel, Gladbeck, Germany, on 25 September 2010 as part of the Ruhrtriennale music and arts festival by the contemporary music ensemble musikFabrik in collaboration with local youth groups and students of the Folkwang University, Essen.

The two first performances of Gisela! at the Ruhrtriennale and in Dresden show the two possible performing options: at the Ruhrtriennale all the performers were young people, mostly teens, and in Dresden the Staatskapelle and Staatsopernchor as well as the main Ensemble performed the work.


Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

About 1720, Augustus Louis fell in love with Agnes Wilhelmine of Wuthenau (b. Plötzkau, 4 December 1700 - d. Köthen, 14 January 1725), of the old nobility of Anhalt and lady-in-waiting to his mother, the Dowager Princess Gisela Agnes.

Chelles Abbey

Abbess Gisela was the one person to send Alcuin the news at Tours of her brother Charlemagne’s official coronation.

Emmanuel Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

Nonetheless, Gisela Agnes was created Imperial Countess of Nienburg (German: Reichsgräfin von Nienburg) on 23 July 1694.

After the death of the Dowager Princess and formal assumption of the rule of his principality, Emmanuel Lebrecht sent for Gisela Agnes and they finally married in a secret ceremony in Nienburg on 22 May (30 September according to some sources) of 1692.

Ernest I, Duke of Swabia

Ernest and Gisela had two sons, Ernest and Hermann, both of whom would eventually become dukes of Swabia themselves.

F-A-E Sonata

The composers presented the score to Joachim on 28 October at a soirée in the Schumann household, which Bettina von Arnim and her daughter Gisela also attended.

Fritz Grasshoff

spoken and sung by Hanne Wieder, Hannelore Schroth, Gustav Knuth, Gisela aus Schwabing, Kirsten Heiberg, Ralf Bendix, Jens Brenke, Inge Brandenburg, Werner Schmalenbach and Fritz Graßhoff.

Gisela Agnes of Rath

Gisela Agnes of Rath (9 October 1669 in Kleinwülknitz, now part of Köthen – 12 March 1740 in Nienburg) was Duchess of Anhalt-Köthen by marriage from 1692.

Gisela Beyer

Gisela Beyer is the sister of Olympic gold medalist shot putter Udo Beyer and Olympic gold medalist in handball Hans-Georg Beyer.

Gisela Birkemeyer

Gisela Birkemeyer (born December 22, 1931 in Fasendorf/Ore Mountains, Saxony) is a former athlete and Olympic medal winner from Germany, who was born as Gisela Köhler.

Gisela Heisse

Gisela Heisse is a retired German rower who won a silver and a gold medal in the quad sculls at the European championships of 1959–1960, both of them with Herta Weissig.

Gisela Legath

Gisela Legath from Eberau was a Burgenland woman who saved with the help of her two children Martin Legath and Frieda Legath the life of two Hungarian Jews from the Nazis during World War II by providing a shelter in their barn.

Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz

Heinrich XI was born at Greiz, Reuss, youngest child of Count Heinrich II Reuss of Obergreiz (1696–1722), (son of Heinrich VI, Count Reuss of Greiz and Baroness Henriette Amalie of Friesen) and his wife, Countess Sophie Charlotte of Bothmer (1697–1748), (daughter of Count Johann Kaspar of Bothmer and Gisela Erdmuth of Hoym).

Henry of Franconia

Henry has been speculated to have married Ingeltrude, daughter of Eberhard of Friuli and Gisela, daughter of Louis the Pious.

I See a Boat on the River / My Friend Jack

"I See a Boat on the River" was written by another Farian artist Gilla (aka Gisela Wuchinger = G. Winger) and her fiancé Helmut Rulofs.

Karolus magnus et Leo papa

Although the Paderborn Epic's hunt scene, probably describing an actual hunt in the spring of 799, is "highly stylized", the importance of women in Charlemagne's court is highlighted by the order of his retinue: the queen Luitgard, followed by sons Charles and Pippin, and then the "brilliant order of girls" (puellarum ... ordo coruscus), Rotrud, Bertha, Gisela, Ruodhaid, Theodrada and Hiltrud.

Louis the Stammerer

Twice married, he and his first wife, Ansgarde of Burgundy, had two sons: Louis (born in 863) and Carloman (born in 866), both of whom became kings of France, and two daughters: Hildegarde (born in 864) and Gisela (865–884), who married Robert, Count of Troyes.

Meyer Werft

Most probably the second oldest passenger ship still in service (oldest probably Gisela, a paddle steamer on Traunsee, Austria)

Monitum

On June 29, 2002, Romulo Antonio Braschi, the founder of a schismatic community, attempted to confer priestly ordination on the following Catholic women : Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, Adelinde Theresia Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Müller, Ida Raming, Pia Brunner and Angela White.

Princess Angela of Liechtenstein

Princess Angela was born in Bocas del Toro, Panama as Angela Gisela Brown, the daughter of Javier Francisco Brown and Silvia Maritza Burke.

Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002

Rosa placed 7th with 81 points at Eurovision, where her backing singers where her fellow contestants from Operación Triunfo David Bisbal, David Bustamante, Chenoa, Gisela (who would represent Andorra in 2008) and Geno.

The Triumph of St. Joan

Gisela Weber created the title role with Jerome Swinford as Pierre Cauchon and John Druary as the Dauphin of France/Charles VII of France.

Transport of concentration camp inmates to Tyrol

Gisela Gräfin von Plettenberg-Lenhausen, daughter of Walther Graf von Plettenberg-Lenhausen

Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte

As a token of his good will, Rollo also agreed to be baptised and marry Gisela, a presumed illegitimate daughter of Charles.


see also