Conan I. (Brittany)

Conan I († June 27, 992 at the Battle of Conquereuil ), called the Unjust ( le Tort ), was the son of Juhel-Berengar, Count of Rennes ; he followed his father in 970 and was Duke of Brittany from 990 .

After he had got rid of the guardianship of Wicohen, Archbishop of Dol-de-Bretagne , he seized rule of the county of Vannes in alliance with Orscand, the Bishop of Vannes (970-992) . He defeated the Counts of Nantes Hoël I and Guérec, finally subjugated the county in 990 after the death of the young Count Alain, and then proclaimed himself duke. Fulk Nerra , the new Count of Anjou, was concerned about developments in the west of his sphere of influence. He attacked Conan and killed him in the Battle of Conquereuil in 992.

Conan I is considered to be the founder of the Rennes family in the succession of the Breton duke dynasties. He was buried in the abbey church of Mont-Saint-Michel .

From his marriage to Ermengarde, a daughter of Count Gottfried I of Anjou , he had at least four children:

• Gottfried I. (Geoffroi I.) († 1008);
• Judicaël († June 13, 1037), 992 Bishop of Vannes;
• Catualon, 1019-1040 Abbot of Saint-Sauveur de Redon;
• Judith († 1017), ∞ Duke Richard II of Normandy .

literature

Primary sources

• Chronique de Nantes , Présentée et annotée par René Merlet (Gallica)
• Rodulfus Glaber , Chronique de l'an Mil , Collection Sources de l'Histoire de France , Éditions Paleo, Paris 2002, ISBN 2913944132 , Chapter 3 De Conan duc des Bretons et de Foulques comte des Angevins , pp. 51-53.
• Richer de Reims , Histoire de Richer en IV livres , translation AM Poinsignon, Reims 1855, Book IV Chapter XLXXII-XLXXXVI.

Secondary sources

• André Chédeville, Noël-Yves Tonnerre, La Bretagne féodale XIe-XIIIe siècle , Ouest-France, Université Rennes, 1987, ISBN 9782737300141
• Arthur de La Borderie, Histoire de Bretagne , Volume 2, new edition by Joseph Floch Imprimeur Éditeur à Mayenne, 1975, Lutte de la maison de Rennes contre la maison de Nantes , pp. 419-439
• Noël-Yves Tonnerre, Naissance de la Bretagne , Presses de l'Université d'Angers, 1994, ISBN 9782903075583
• Joëlle Quaghebeur, Bernard Merdrignac (eds.), Bretons et Normands au Moyen Âge. Rivalités, malentendus convergences , Presses Universitaires de Rennes; Rennes 2008, ISBN 9782753505636
• Hubert Guillotel, Actes des duc de Bretagne (944-1148) , Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2014, ISBN 9782753534988

predecessor	Office	successor
––	Duke of Brittany 990–992	Gottfried I.