Breton mark

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Fortresses and garrison towns in the Breton region

The Breton Mark (formerly also: Britannian Mark or Cenomania ) was one of the short-lived margraviates that were set up under the Carolingians to secure borders - in this case against the Bretons .

The Breton Mark comprised eastern Brittany . It was north of the Loire , included the cities of Vannes and Rennes and reached as far as the gates of Angers and Avranches .

She is best known for Count Hruotland , the hero of the later Roland song , who fell in the battle of Roncesvalles on August 15, 778 .

The other margraves come from the Widonen family :

• Guido (Wido) , † 802/814, Count, 799 Margrave of the Breton Mark, 802 missus regis in Touraine
• Lantbert (Lambert) , † 834, Count, Margrave of the Breton Marks, 818/830 Count of Nantes and Angers , expelled in 834, went to Italy with Emperor Lothar I in 834
• Bernhard of Poitiers , installed by Charles the Bald in 834 , X 844/845
• Lambert , X 852, Count ex territorio Nannetense ortus : conquered the county of Nantes in 840/41 , recognized by the king as Margrave of the Breton Mark, Count of Nantes and Angers in 845, expelled December 846, re-in office in 849; ∞ around 850/951 Rotrud, baptized 835/840 in Pavia , daughter of Emperor Lothar I ( Carolingian )