Gerold I ({{circa, 725 – 784) was the count of

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and {{ill, Anglachgau, de.{{sfn, Jackman, 2007, p=22 His daughter, Hildergard married King

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in 771.{{sfn, Lapidge, 2017, p=5-6

Life

Little is known about Gerold. He belonged to the Franconian imperial aristocracy In 784, he and his wife made important donations to the newly founded

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. These were estates in the vicinity of Worms and Heidelberg. Some modern works describe Gerold as "count of Vinzgau". No such place existed, although the name may be derived from either

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Marriage and issue

He was married before 754 to Emma (d. 789 or 798 or after 784), daughter of

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. They had the following: *

Eric of Friuli Eric (also ''Heirichus'' or ''Ehericus''; died 799) was the Duke of Friuli (''dux Foroiulensis'') from 789 to his death. He was the eldest son of Gerold of Anglachgau and by the marriage of his sister Hildegard the brother-in-law of Charlemagne. ...

* Gerold{{sfn, Lapidge, 2017, p=5-6 *Udalrich *

Hildegard Hildegard is a female name derived from the Old High German ''hild'' ('war' or 'battle') and ''gard'' ('enclosure' or 'yard'), and means 'battle enclosure'. Variant spellings include: Hildegarde; the Polish, Portuguese, Slovene and Spanish Hi ...

, born in 754, married King

in 771.{{sfn, Lapidge, 2017, p=5-6 * Adrian, Count of Orléans, father of

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[Le Jan, Régine. ''Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIe-Xe siècle)'' (in French). Publications de la Sorbonne, 2003 * Peter, Abbot of Reichenau{{sfn, Lapidge, 2017, p=9 Through Udalrich, Gerold is reckoned as the founder of the family of the {{Interlanguage link multi, Udalrichings{{!Udalrichings, de, 3=Udalrichinger.

References

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Sources

*{{cite book , author-link=Donald C. Jackman , first=Donald C. , last=Jackman , title=Ius hereditarum Encountered I: The Meingaud-Walaho Inheritance , year=2007 , publisher=Editions Enlaplage *{{cite book , title=Hilduin of Saint-Denis: The Passio S. Dionysii in Prose and Verse , first=Michael , last=Lapidge , publisher=Brill , year=2017 *{{cite journal , last=Stoclet , first=Alain J. , title=Saint-Denis et les premiers Carolingiens: À propos d'une nouvelle édition des Passions d'Hilduin et de plusieurs textes apparentés ou satellites , journal=Francia , volume=45 , year=2018 , pages=193–209

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