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Gerulf II of Frisia

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Gerulf, 'Count of Holland' (fl. 885) (Gerulf II, count in Frisia) may have been the father of Theodoric I (Dirk). Gerulf could have been the son or grandson of an earlier Gerulf (Gerulf I) who was also count in Frisia at the time of the reign of Emperor Louis I the Pious (fl. 833) and who later joined a monastery. He died in 855 AD.

There is some limited and vague evidence that this earlier Gerulf (Gerulf I) was a son of a certain Theodoric, who in turn is desecended from the Frisian king Redbad (d. 719).

Gerulf 'II' was among those counts who assassinated their Viking overlord Godfrith the Sea King at a place named Herespich (modern Spijk) in 885.

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