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http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HOLLAND.htm GEROLF (-after [4 Aug] 88 9). Count of Frisia. Regino names "Gerolfum et Gardolfum comites Freso rum", sent by "Godefridem" as legates to the emperor after Hugo, son o f King Lothar, rebelled in 885 [1]. The ''Annales Vedastini'' record t hat "Godefridus Danus" was killed in the city of "Gerulfi sui fidelis " by "Heinrico duce" in 885 [2]. "Arnolfus… rex" granted property "i nter Renum et Suithardeshaghe in comitatu ipsius in locis Northa et Os prehtashem" to "comes noster… Gerolfus" by charter dated [4 Aug] 88 9 [3]. This is the area around the town of Tiel in Teisterbant and th e coastal area around Leiden at the mouth of the river Rhine [4]. m -- -. The name of Gerulf's wife is not known. [1] ''Reginonis Chronicon' ' 885, MGH SS I, p. 595. [2] ''Annales Vedastini'' 885, MGH SS I, p . 522. [3] D Arn 57, p. 81. [4] Kees Nieuwenhuijsen, in a private em ail to the author dated 3 Oct 2006.