Gebhard, Count of the Lahngau

Gebhard was known as a loyal follower of the Emperor Louis the Pious. This meant that he, without, however, due to the security of the old Emperor deliver their messages together with Abbot Grimald of White Castle in January 834, when Louis had been canceled for the second time, from his son Louis the German was sent to him in Aachen can. In the year 839 it was Louis the Pious himself, as his envoy in the negotiations in Blois began Gebhard, Bishop Badurad and Margrave Bernard of Toulouse with his son Lothar. The relationship of trust Gebhard to Louis the German, however, was heavily loaded, as Gebhard's sons is 861 raised against the king, was deposed and fled to Charles the Bald .. 879 he entered the monastery Gemünden a

Gebhard had four sons:

• Udo, Count in Lahngau to 860/879
• Berengar, 860/879 testifies, 876 Count in Hessengau
• Waldo, 839/879 testifies, 868/879 Abbot of the Abbey of St. Maximin in Trier Empire
• Bertold, 879 testified, Archbishop of Trier

As Udo, Berengar and Waldo, as they are the Germans convicted of infidelity by King Ludwig in 861 AD, when the nepotes mitverurteilten Nordgau - Count Ernst are called, it is assumed that Gebhard married to an unnamed sister of Count Ernst was