Genève

The counts of Geneva, called the Géroldiens by some genealogists after their mid-eleventh-century ancestor Gérold, were a great comital house of the old Kingdom of Burgundy. In 1034 Count Gérold resisted the absorption of Burgundy by Emperor Conrad II, who nevertheless had himself crowned at Geneva.

Rivalry with the bishops of Geneva ended in the treaty of Seyssel of 1124, under which Count Aymon I gave up his temporal claims over the city and kept only the castle of Bourg-de-Four. From 1219 the family's capital was Annecy.

Robert of Geneva was elected pope by the French cardinals in 1378 as the Avignon antipope Clement VII and inherited the county from his brother in 1392. On his death in 1394 the male line was extinct, and in 1401 his heirs sold the county to Amadeus VIII of Savoy.