• Born: Lyon, Loire, Lyonnais/Rhone-Alpes, France
• Married:
• Died: 5 March or 20 September, after 1046

  Research Notes:

"Girardus comes" donated property "in pago Lugdunensi in ago Tarnantensi in finibus villæ…Conziacus" to Savigny for the souls of "patris mei Artaldi et matris meæ Theotbergiæ et fratris mei Artaldi" by charter dated [1017]. "Geraldus comes et uxor mea Adalaix" donated the church of Saint-Pierre d’Aurec to the abbey of Saint-Michel-l’Ecluse en Savoie, by charter dated "VIII Id Feb regnante Rodulfo rege die Jovis", subscribed by "Artaldus et Gaufredus seu Vilelemus eorum filii". Radulfus Glaber records that “Geraldus comes” attempted to impose “suum filium puerulum” (unnamed) as archbishop of Lyon after the death of archbishop Burchard in 1033. "Girardi comitis" witnessed a charter dated 1046 under which "Gauzerannus" donated property "ecclesiam Sancti Joannis Baptistæ de Tarnanto…et ecclesiam Sancti Victorie…in pago Lugdunensi" to the abbey of Savigny.

The 13th century obituary of the Eglise primatiale de Lyon records the death "III Non Mar" of "Geraldus comes". The necrology of the priory of Ambierle en Roannois records the death "XII Kal Oct" of "Gerardus comes". ¹