Alain VIII. De Rohan

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Alain VIII. De Rohan ( attested in 1379 , † July 25, 1429 ) was Viscount de Rohan and Sire de Léon , Seigneur de Noyon-sur-Andelle , as well as Lieutenant-général and Governor of Brittany .

He was the eldest son of Jean I de Rohan , Vicomte de Rohan, and Jeanne de Léon, the heir to Hervé, Sire de Léon. He became Sire de Léon as heir to his mother, Viscount de Rohan, with the death of his father, who was still alive in 1395.

He married Béatrix de Clisson, the heir to Olivier V. de Clisson , Connétable of France , and Catherine de Laval. With the death of her father in 1407 she became Countess of Porhoët ; She was also Dame de Blain , de Fresnay , d ' Héric , de Pontchâteau , de La Garnache et de Josselin . Béatrix de Clisson died in 1448.

The only child of this marriage was: Alain IX. de Rohan († 1462), Vicomte de Rohan et de Léon, Comte de Porhoët; ∞ (1) 1407 Marguerite de Bretagne, Dame de Guillac († 1428), daughter of Johann V , Duke of Bretagne ( House of France-Dreux ); ∞ (2) 1450 Marie de Lorraine († 1455), daughter of Anton von Lothringen , Count of Vaudémont ( House of Châtenois ); ∞ (3) 1456 Peronnelle de Maillé, daughter of Hardouin, Seigneur de Maillé ( Maillé house )

During the imprisonment of Duke Johann VI. in 1420 at Champtoceaux Castle , which ended with its liberation that same year and the order to demolish it, Alain VIII administered Brittany for the captured duke.

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SURNAME Rohan, Alain VIII. De
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Viscount de Rohan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman, governor of Brittany
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1429