Gerold of Vinzgau (also ''Vintzgouw'' or ''Anglachgau''; 725 - 799) was a count in

Kraichgau The Kraichgau () is a hilly region in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany. It is bordered by the Odenwald and the Neckar to the North, the Black Forest to the South, and the Upper Rhine Plain to the West. To the east, its boundary i ...

and Anglachgau.{{sfn, Lapidge, 2017, p=5 His daughter married King

Charlemagne Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first E ...

in 771.{{sfn, Lapidge, 2017, p=5-6 In 784 generous donations to the monastery of

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by Gerold and Emma are recorded.

Marriage and issue

He was married before 754 to Emma (d. 789 or 798 or after 784), daughter of

Hnabi Hnabi or Nebi (c. 710 – c. 789) was an Alemannian duke. He was a son of Huoching and perhaps a grandson of the duke Gotfrid, which would make him a scion of the Agilolfing dynasty of Bavaria. He was the founder of the "old" line of the Ah ...

, Duke of Alamannia. They had the following: * Gerold{{sfn, Lapidge, 2017, p=5-6 *Udalrich *

Hildegard Hildegard is a female name derived from the Old High German ''hild'' ('war' or 'battle') and ''gard'' ('enclosure' or 'yard'), and means 'battle enclosure'. Variant spellings include: Hildegarde; the Polish, Portuguese, Slovene and Spanish Hilde ...

, born in 754, married King

in 771.{{sfn, Lapidge, 2017, p=5-6 *probably Adrian, Count of Orléans, father of Odo I, Count of Orléans *

Eric of Friuli Eric (also ''Heirichus'' or ''Ehericus''; died 799) was the Duke of Friuli (''dux Foroiulensis'') from 789 to his death. He was the eldest son of Gerold of Vinzgouw and by the marriage of his sister Hildegard the brother-in-law of Charlemagne. B ...

. Through Udalrich, Gerold is reckoned as the founder of the family of the {{Interlanguage link multi, Udalrichings{{!Udalrichings, de, 3=Udalrichinger.

References

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Sources

*{{cite book , title=Hilduin of Saint-Denis: The Passio S. Dionysii in Prose and Verse , first=Michael , last=Lapidge , publisher=Brill , year=2017

External links

* {{MLCC , warning=1 , url=http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SWABIAN%20NOBILITY.htm#GeroldUdalrichingerMImma , title-date= , title= Gerold, date=August 2012, Charles Cawley's "Medieval Lands", hosted at the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
Gerold
genealogie-mittelalter.de {{DEFAULTSORT:Vinzgau, Gerold of 725 births 799 deaths 8th-century dukes of Bavaria Udalriching dynasty 8th-century rulers in Europe Burials at the Imperial Abbey of Reichenau