Gerulf I of Frisia

Gerulf I
Gerulf I
Count in Frisia
Reign	around 839
Successor	Gerulf II
Died	past 865
Issue	Count Gerulf II (c. 850 – 895/896); Count Gerhard; Gunther (d. 873), Archbishop of Cologne; The mother of bishop Radboud of Utrecht (d. 917);

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.

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