Gisela of Hungary was a German princess and the first queen consort of Hungary, born around 985 in Bad Abbach. As the daughter of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria, she married King Stephen I in 996, a union that helped integrate Hungary into Western culture. Following the death of her husband, she returned to Bavaria, where she served as a Benedictine abbess at the Niedernburg convent in Passau. She died there on May 7, 1065.