Gerer

Also known as: Gerers / Geriers · Family: Franks · Role: knight · First appears: Laisses VII–XII

At Laisses VII–XII, Gerer is among the barons at Charles’s council, alongside Guenes, Rollant, and Oliver, serving Charles as his lord. At Laisses LXI–LXVI, Gerer is counted among Rollant’s friends; at Laisses XCVII–CII, he kills the admiral.

At Laisses CIII–CVIII, Gerer and his friend Gerin strike Timozel and throw him dead. At Laisses CXV–CXX, Grandones kills Gerer, Gerin, Berenger, and Guiun. Later, at Laisses CLVII–CLXII, Rollant finds Gerer among his fallen companions and brings him to the Archbishop.

Relationship record

Life events

• Charles convenes a council with his barons, including Guenes, Rollant, and Oliver.(Laisses VII–XII)
  • With: Charles Guenes Rollant Oliver Oger Turpin Richard Henry Acolin Tedbald Milun Gerin
  • “That Emperour, beneath a pine he sits, Calls his barons, his council to begin: Oger the Duke, that Archbishop Turpin, Richard the old, and his nephew Henry, From Gascony the proof Count Acolin, Tedbald of Reims and Milun his cousin: With him there were Gerers, also Gerin, And among them the Count Rollant came in, And Oliver, so proof and so gentil. Franks out of France, a thousand chivalry; Guenes came there, that wrought the treachery. The Council then began, which ended ill.”
• Gerer kills the admiral.(Laisses XCVII–CII)
  • “Dead on the field he's flung him from his hand.”
• Gerins and Gerers strike Timozel and throw him dead.(Laisses CIII–CVIII)
  • With: Gerin Timozel
  • “And go to strike a pagan Timozel; One on the shield, on hauberk the other fell; And their two spears went through the carcass well, A fallow field amidst they've thrown him dead.”
• Grandones kills Gerin, Gerer, Berenger, and Guiun.(Laisses CXV–CXX)
  • With: Grandones Gerin Berenger Guiun
  • “Until he flings him dead, on a high rock; His companion Gerer he's slain also, And Berenger, and Guiun of Santone;”
• Rollant finds Gerer and brings him to the Archbishop.(Laisses CLVII–CLXII)
  • With: Rollant
  • “He finds Gerin, Gerers his companion, Also he finds Berenger and Otton, There too he finds Anseis and Sanson, And finds Gerard the old, of Rossillon; By one and one he's taken those barons, To the Archbishop with each of them he comes,”

Laisses VII–XII

• lord: Charles “With him there were Gerers, also Gerin,”

Laisses LXI–LXVI

• friends with Rollant “Also Gerins and the proud count Geriers,”

Laisses CIII–CVIII

• friends with Gerin “On Passe-Cerf was Gerers there, his friend; They've loosed their reins, together spurred and sped,”
• enemies with Timozel “And go to strike a pagan Timozel; One on the shield, on hauberk the other fell;”

Laisses CXV–CXX

• enemies with Grandones “His companion Gerer he's slain also,”

Laisses CLVII–CLXII

• friends with Gerin “He finds Gerin, Gerers his companion, Also he finds Berenger and Otton,”

Laisses CLXXV–CLXXX

• friends with Gerin “Where is Gerins and his comrade Gerers?”

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Extracted from the original text of The Song of Roland. Made with Rho MD.