Pre-Pact Gisredde (concept)
Peti Gisredde's origins began centuries before the Marchers arrived in Chevalie, first a Gallicader holy site named Sweverg Irssraedl. Viceroy Inian Wisestar would burn the site and establish Inianvilla over it in 79 IS.
Despite Inian's attempts, Inianvilla never stuck, gradually becoming Svergirssred (a bastardization of the Gallicader name). Mical Wisestar attempted to force the villagers (whose fealty to Mical sat in limbo) to give allegiance. The first Council of Gisredde would form in response, leading to the Three Pier War, the defeat of Mical's army and the rise of the likely apocryphical folk-hero Jan va Gisredde. Local legend claims Svergirssred was then renamed the 'Gisreddeport' in Jan's honor.
The city's dockyards became Chevalie's staple port, and the city would grow to take Barrotgeis, and the two cities would eventually become Peti and Grande Gisredde (named for the greater size of Grande Gisredde's holdings, its only notable achievement). Many would attempt to annex Gisredde to mixed results, most notably High King Aloysian in the third century. The Shoemaker Rebellion brought the Gisreddepact, the legal basis for the city's independence and ended the first 'era' of Gisredde's history, followed by that of Pre-Collapse Gisredde.