The Annales Rodenses record that "in Flandriensi provintia duo nobiles germani fratres…alter Gerardus et alter…Rutgerus" were exiled from "Anthonium [Antoing]…iuxta flumen Xelda" and were granted "Wasenberch…[et] Clive" respectively by the emperor.
Graf von Wassenberg. 1033/1053. "Chuonradus…Romanorum imperator augustus" granted property "quam Herimannus comes in istis tribus pagis Auga, Netega, Hessiga habet" to the church of Paderborn. An undated charter, placed in the compilation among charters dated 1032, records the meeting between Nanther Abbot of Metz St Martin and Poppo Abbot of Stablo, Malmedy and Trier St Maximin (arranged at Deville by Emperor Konrad II and Henri I King of France), witnessed by "Becelinus comes de Biendeburch, Godefridus comes de Amblavia, Gozilo comes de Engeis, Gerardus Flamens". “Reinardus de Cirna, Herimannus de Gruosles, Arnulfus de Fidines, Gerardus flamens” witnessed the charter dated 1042 which records property of Stavelot abbey.
The name of Gerhard's wife is not known. 1
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