FRIESLAND Gerulf

0845 - 0916  (~ 71 years)

• Name	FRIESLAND Gerulf
  Birth	0845	Friesland, Netherlands
  Gender	Male
  Death	0916	Corvey, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  Notes	The fact that Gerulf was the ancestor of the later Counts of Holland has been overlooked for centuries. The oldest genealogical overview of Holland, the Rijmkroniek (drafted around 1125-1133), begins with Dirk, the first count of Holland. It does mention that Dirk I had a brother Waldger, but does not say that there was also a father or a forerunner. The Rijmkroniek of Holland from the thirteenth century suggests that Gerulf may have died without a child. From the seventeenth century, in Regino of Prüm, the designation of Gerulf as 'comites Fresonum' (Count of Frisia) was a clue that he should have been Dirk I's father. Only after the end of the nineteenth century, Bolhuis van Zeeburgh provided good support for that father-son relationship: Regino had also reported that Waldger was Gerulf's son, while in the Gravenregister it was read that Dirk and Waldger were brothers . In addition, both Gerulf and Dirk were greeted in West Frisia. [1]Children: Waldger erfde de gouwen Nifterlake, Lek en IJssel en Teisterbant. [1] Dirk I volgde zijn vader op in West-Frisia: het gebied tussen Vlie en Maas [1] 519 Gerulf, 889 vermeld als graaf, vader van Dirk I en Waldger. (Gerulf, 0889 mentioned as Count, father of Dirk I and Waldger) [2] Name Name: Gerulf II of Friesland Birth Birth: Date: ABT 850 Birth: Date: 840 Death Death: Date: 895/6 Death: Date: 933 Note Also called Gerolf of Holland. Wikipedia: His ancestry is unclear, but he may have been a son or, more likely, a grandson of the earlier Gerolf, who was a count in the area of Frisia at the time of the reign of Emperor Louis I the Pious (fl. 833) and who later joined a monastery. The earlier Gerolf died in 855. There is some limited and vague evidence that this earlier Gerolf was a son of a certain Theodoric, who in turn supposedly descended from the Frisian king Redbad (d. 719). Sources ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Source: Wikipedia Gerulf ↑ Source: Rijmkroniek van Holland (366-1305) pg. 19-20 Annalen van Egmond: de Annales Egmundenses tezamen met de Annales Xantenses en het Egmondse leven van Thomas Becket Uitgeverij Verloren, 2007 (see pg 385) Kroniek Door Guilelmus (Procurator) (Includes Pedigree, page 520 ) http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HOLLAND.htm#_Toc359915623 Project Medlands - http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HOLLAND.htm#DirkIB
  Person ID	I58648	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	FRIESLAND Gerolf I,   b. Abt 0815
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F347213	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	FLANDERS Unknown,   b. 0855
  Children	1. HOLLAND Dirk,   b. Abt 0875, Noordwijk-Binnen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland d. 06 Oct 0939, Egmond-Binnen, Noord-Holland, Nederland (Age 64 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F26121	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026