Gerold of Swabia, Count in Linzgau, Prefect in Bavaria ^{1 2}

   Other names for Gerold were Gerold of Vinzgouw and Geroud of Swabia.

  Research Notes:

Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall (Baltimore, 2008), Line 50-13 (Charlemagne)

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Gerold of Vinzgouw (also Vintzgau or Anglachgau; c. 725 - 799) was an Alamannian nobleman, serving the Frankish King as Margrave of the Avarian March and Prefect of Bavaria . Gerold played a significant role in the integration of Bavaria into the Frankish Kingdom. Being related to the family of the Agilofings , he was appointed Prefect of Bavaria after the deposition of Duke Tassilo III in 788 . In 784 generous donations to the monastery of Lorsch by Gerold and Emma are recorded.

In 799 he fell in a battle against the Avars , a short while after his son Eric was killed by the treachery of the same. He was succeeded by his surviving sons Gerold II and Udalrich I.

Marriage and issue
In 757 , he married Emma of Alamannia (730-789), daughter of Hnabi , Duke of Alamannia . They had the following:
Eric of Friuli
Adrian, Count of Orléans , father of Odo I, Count of Orléans
Gerold
Udalrich
Hildegard , who in 771 married King Charlemagne .

Through Udalrich, Gerold is reckoned as the founder of the family of the Udalrichians.

References
The Royal Ancestry Bible Royal Ancestors of 300 Colonial American Families by Michel L. Call (chart 2002) ISBN 1-933194-22-7
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Gerold married Emma of Allemania, daughter of Hnabi Duke of Alemannia and Hereswind, in 727. (Emma of Allemania was born about 735 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia (Germany) and died about 785.)