Birth:754
Death:9/1/799
Gerold (died 799) was an Alamannian nobleman who served the Frankish King, Charlemagne, as Margrave of the Avarian March and Prefect of Bavaria in what is now South-Eastern Germany. He was heralded as a superb military commander, giving rise to his promotion to Prefect as a defender of the eastern border of the Frankish Kingdom. In 799, Gerold is said to have fell in battle against the Avars.∼Father of #84021764
Wife of Charlemagne
Death:9/1/799
Gerold (died 799) was an Alamannian nobleman who served the Frankish King, Charlemagne, as Margrave of the Avarian March and Prefect of Bavaria in what is now South-Eastern Germany. He was heralded as a superb military commander, giving rise to his promotion to Prefect as a defender of the eastern border of the Frankish Kingdom. In 799, Gerold is said to have fell in battle against the Avars.∼Father of #84021764
Wife of Charlemagne
Birth:754
Death:9/1/799
Gerold (died 799) was an Alamannian nobleman who served the Frankish King, Charlemagne, as Margrave of the Avarian March and Prefect of Bavaria in what is now South-Eastern Germany. He was heralded as a superb military commander, giving rise to his promotion to Prefect as a defender of the eastern border of the Frankish Kingdom. In 799, Gerold is said to have fell in battle against the Avars.∼Father of #84021764
Wife of Charlemagne
Death:9/1/799
Gerold (died 799) was an Alamannian nobleman who served the Frankish King, Charlemagne, as Margrave of the Avarian March and Prefect of Bavaria in what is now South-Eastern Germany. He was heralded as a superb military commander, giving rise to his promotion to Prefect as a defender of the eastern border of the Frankish Kingdom. In 799, Gerold is said to have fell in battle against the Avars.∼Father of #84021764
Wife of Charlemagne
Inscription
'Beneath this monument are kept Gerold's bones,
who did everything in his power to increase the rights of this place (Reichenau);
(he was) killed in Pannonia (fighting) for the true peace of the Church.
He met the savage sword of the Kalends of September (Sept.1),
and gave up his soul to the heavens. His limbs faithful Saxo
carried off, and brought hither, and enclosed them here in worthy honour'.
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