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Gerwic of Friesland

Ego Gerwic de Fresia trado sancto Bonifacio ad Fuldense monasterium terram iuris mei iuxta fluvium Maresdeop et quicquid proprietatis habui sive in agris vel pratis, silvis, domibus vel mancipiis. = "I, Gerwic of Friesland, transfer to St. Bonifacius of the monastery of Fulda the land that is under my jurisdiction near the river Marsdiep, and all I had in possession either fields or meadows, forests, houses or serfs.". Wieringen

List_of_settlements_lost_to_floods_in_the_Netherlands#Drowned villages in waters round Wieringen, listed in records as property of Fulda Monastery, late 8th, early 9th century