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Personal data Gerolf I "de oude' van (West)Friesland 

  • He was born in the year 780.
  • (Geschiedenis) .Source 1
    Gerulf, also Gerulf the Elder, (d. after 865) was the first count of Frisia by this name and an ancestor of the Counts of Holland. Initially dispossessed for opposing emperor Louis the Pious, Gerulf was given back his lands in 839.
    Life

    Gerulf was the son of count Dirk. In the times of emperor Louis the Pious he was count of Friesland as Louis' vassal, and reeve of the Frisians between Vlie and the river Weser. Already in the beginning of his reign, Louis, in an act of grace, had returned to the Frisians what they had lost earlier in their uprisings against his father. This act made the emperor popular among the Frisians but weakened the count's position towards the population. Later, Louis' weak policy against the Normans caused further annoyance in Frisia. In 826, he ceded a part of Frisia that was to be protected by the count of Friesland to the Danish pretender Harald Klak. Harald got the land of Rüstringen at the left bank of the Weser to have a refuge from hostile attacks by his kin. However, this was considerably interfering with the power of the counts of Friesland. It is presumed that in that time, Gerulf joined the opposition against the emperor.

    A document by the emperor that was created on 8 July 839 in Kreuznach proves that there was an uprising in Friesland against the emperor. During the kinstrife between Louis and his sons, count Gerulf presumably took an active part in the movement against Louis, at the very least he lost his fiefs and his own estates were confiscated. On 8 May 839 after the reconciliation between Louis and his son Lothair, Gerulf's private properties were returned to him. The Kreuznach document mentions possessions of Gerulf in and around Leeuwarden and between Vlie and Lonbach.

    It is assumed that Gerulf was related to the founders of Corvey Abbey. Furthermore he may have married a daughter of Wala of Corbie.
  • (Levens event) .Source 2
    Gerulfingen

    De Gerulfingen waren de familie van de eerste graven van (West-)Friesland en Holland en Zeeland. De naamgever was Gerulf de Oudere († na 839), waarvan aangenomen wordt dat hij afstamde van de Friese koning Radboud († 719). Deze dynastie staat ook bekend als het Hollandse Huis en eindigde met de dood van Jan I van Holland in 1299.

    De Gerulfingen hebben één Rooms-koning voortgebracht: Willem II. Volgens de overlevering zou er een aantal zijtakken zijn van deze dynastie van kinderen, die niet geboren waren binnen het huwelijk. Zij behoorden daarom dan ook niet tot de hoofdtak van de familie. Enkele voorbeelden van deze families die genoemd worden zijn de Van Egmonds en de Van Wassenaers en de Jellema's. Genoemd worden als zijtak van de grafelijke familie kan natuurlijk ook een manier zijn je reputatie te vergroten. Buitenechtelijke kinderen werden in die tijd nog niet zo afgekeurd als later. Hoewel ze niet rechtstreeks konden opvolgen, konden ze wel gebruikt worden om familiebelangen veilig te stellen. Associatie met machtige families is dus erg handig.

    De dynastie van de Gerulfingen werd opgevolgd door de Henegouwse heren van het Huis van Avesnes.
    Bentheim

    Een zijtak van deze dynastie was eigenaar van het graafschap Bentheim. Het bezit kwam in de familie door het huwelijk van de erfdochter Sophia van Rheineck met graaf Dirk VI van Holland. Hun oudste zoon Floris III van Holland kreeg het graafschap Holland, de jongere zoon Otto het graafschap Bentheim. Deze tak stierf eind veertiende eeuw uit, waarna Bentheim in vrouwelijke lijn vererfde
  • He died in the year 855, he was 75 years old.
  • A child of Dirk van Friesland
  • This information was last updated on February 15, 2013.

Household of Gerolf I "de oude' van (West)Friesland

He is married to NN van Franken.

They got married.


Child(ren):

  1. NN van Friesland  830-????

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    Sources

    1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerulf_I_of_Frisia
    2. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollandse_Huis

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