On Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 3:36:34 PM UTC-7, Peter Stewart via wrote: > On 5/05/2016 4:54 AM, taf via wrote: > > (By the way, I am not convinced that Gisla/Guisla found in the south > > is directly equivalent to Gisela and not the name often represented as > > Willa.) > > The name Guilia occurs - notably in the family of the lords of Lluca - > and is sometimes rendered as Gisla/Guisla. > > After they were separated for consanguinity Centule of Bearn's first > wife Gisla became a Cluniac nun in Burgundy, where the name Willa was > clearly different from Gisla. Thanks for this. > Do you know what she was called there? I do not - I had never looked at these individuals until the question was raised. It was the use by the Lluca with which I was familiar, notably a suggestion by Vajay, placed in a chart without explanation, that 'Gisla' de Lluca was mother of Countess Stephanie of Burgundy, apparently because the latter named a daughter Gisela, that left me unconvinced. taf