Alain I. (Brittany)

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Alain I the Great (Breton: Alan Veur , French: Alain le Grand ; † 907 ) was a prince of the Bretons in the late 9th and early 10th centuries.

He was the brother of Count Pascweten von Vannes , who was expelled from Vannes by the Normans in 876 . Alain took over the rule there and continued the feud against Count Judicaël of Rennes for supremacy over Brittany , which his brother had already fought with his father since the assassination of King Solomon in 874. From the year 888, however, Brittany faced the threat of a large army of the Seine-Normans , which had previously plundered the land around Paris and had been persuaded by Emperor Charles the Fat to withdraw by means of a contractual agreement. These Normans landed on the coast of the Cotentin and conquered Saint-Lô , from where raids into the Breton country took place. Judicaël fell in battle against them in battle, probably 888/889 at Questembert , which gave Alain sole power over the Bretons. In 890, the Bretons finally won the decisive victory against the Normans in a battle by forcing the enemy into a river, presumably the Blavet , and knocking them down .

With this victory, the threat from the Normans to Brittany subsided, which enabled Alain to establish a stable rule until his death in 907. He was followed by the Count of Cornouaille , Gourmaëlon , as the leader of the Bretons, whose internal order, however , fell apart due to renewed invasions by the Loire-Normans .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Regino von Prüm : Chronicon. Published by Georg Heinrich Pertz . In: Monumenta Germaniae Historica . 5: Scriptores in folio. Vol. 1, 1826, ISSN  0343-2157 , pp. 537-612, here p. 587 .
  2. ^ Regino von Prüm: Chronicon. Published by Georg Heinrich Pertz. In: Monumenta Germaniae Historica. 5: Scriptores in folio. Vol. 1, 1826, ISSN  0343-2157 , pp. 537-612, here pp. 601-602 .
  3. ^ Annales Vedastini . In: Bernhard von Simson (ed.): Annales Xantenses et Annales Vedastini (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores. 7: Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi. Vol. 12). Hahn, Hannover et al. 1909, pp. 40–82, here p. 68 .
  4. ↑ James H. Ford (ed.): The Anglo-Saxon chronicle . Translated from the Old English by James Ingram. El Paso Norte Press, Texas TX 2005, ISBN 0-9760726-3-7 , p. 70.
personal data
SURNAME Alain I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alain I the Great; Alan Veur; Alain le Grand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Breton prince
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century
DATE OF DEATH 907