Gisela of Swabia

Gisela of Swabia

Gisela of Swabia (c. 990 – 15 February 1043), was queen of Germany from 1024 to 1039 and empress of the Holy Roman Empire from 1027 to 1039 by her third marriage with Emperor Conrad II. She was the mother of Emperor Henry III. She was regent of Swabia for her minor son Duke Ernest II of Swabia in 1015, although it seems at that time her husband Conrad was the one who held the reins of government, leading to the enmity between stepfather and stepson.She was an active empress, exemplifying a tradition in which, up to the period of the Hohenstaufens, as the consors regni (ruling partner to the king or emperor), the queen and empress held a substantive role in the government, often intervening in the drafting of documents or even issuing documents in her own name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gisela of Swabia has received more than 105,687 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Gisela of Swabia is the 4,207th most popular politician (up from 5,288th in 2019), the 1,146th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,490th in 2019) and the 344th most popular German Politician.