Cornouaille (noble family)

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Cornouaille is the family of the Counts of Nantes and later Cornouaille and the Dukes of Brittany (in rivalry with the House of Rennes ) from the 9th to the 12th centuries.

Tribe list

First line: Vannes and Nantes

  1. NN
    1. Pasquitan I, Count of Vannes , 874-876 / 77 Duke of Brittany; ⚭ NN, daughter of Salomon , 857 Duke of Brittany ( House of Rennes )
    2. Alain I the Great († 907), 877 Duke of Brittany, 888 sole ruler, ⚭ Oreguen
      1. Daughter , ⚭ Matuedo I., Count of Poher
        1. Alain II. Barbetorte († 952), Count of Vannes and Nantes , 936 Duke of Bretagne, ⚭ 943 Roscille of Anjou , daughter of Count Fulko I ( First House of Anjou )
          1. Son , † small
          2. (illegitimate, mother unknown) Hoel († 981), Count of Nantes
            1. Judicael, Count of Nantes, ⚭ Melisende
              1. Judith († 1053), ⚭ Alain Cagniart, Graf von Cornouaille († 1058) - for descendants see below
          3. (illegitimate, mother unknown) Guisle († 988), Count of Nantes

Second line: Cornouaille

  1. Alain Cagniart, Count of Cornouaille († 1058), ⚭ Judith († 1053), daughter of Judicael, Count of Nantes - ancestors see above
    1. Agnes, ⚭ Eudes I, 1034 Count of Penthièvre († 1062), ( House of Rennes )
    2. Hoel V., 1054 Count of Cornouaille, Léon and Nantes, ⚭ 1066 Havise († 1072), heiress of Brittany, daughter of Duke Alain III.
      1. Alain IV. Fergent († October 13, 1119), 1084/1112 Duke of Bretagne, ⚭ I 1086 Constance of England (* 1061; † August 13, 1090), daughter of William the Conqueror , King of England ( Rollonids ), ⚭ II around 1093 Ermengarde von Anjou (* probably 1068, † June 1, 1146 in Jerusalem ), daughter of Count Fulko IV. ( House of Château-Landon ), divorced from Wilhelm IX. , Count of Poitou and Duke of Aquitaine ( Ramnulfiden )
        1. Conan III. the fat (* 1095 - 17 September 1148), 1112 Duke of Brittany, ⚭ Maud, bastard of England, daughter of King Henry I ( Plantagenet )
          1. Hoel VI. († 1156), 1148 Count of Nantes
          2. Berthe († 1158/64), heiress of Bretagne, ⚭ I around 1137 Alain de Bretagne, 1st Earl of Richmond († 15 September 1146), ( Rennes House ), ⚭ II 1147 Vice Count Odo von Porhoet , 1147/56 Duke of Brittany († 1170), ( House of Rohan )
          3. Constanze († 1148), ⚭ Geoffroy IV. De Mayenne († February 18, 1169) ( House Mayenne )
        2. Geoffroy († 1116 in Jerusalem )
        3. Havide ⚭ 1110 (divorced), Baldwin VII. , 1111 Count of Flanders († June 17, 1119), ( House of Flanders )
      2. Hildeberge, ⚭ Geoffroy III. de Mayenne († 1099) ( House Mayenne )
      3. Mathieu, Count of Nantes, ⚭ Ermengarde
      4. Eudes
      5. Adèle, Abbess of Saint-Georges

literature

  • Detlev Schwennicke, European Family Tables Volume II, Table 75 and Volume III.1, Appendix, Table 75 new, used therein:
  • Erich Brandenburg , The Descendants of Charlemagne, Leipzig 1935
  • Eberhard Winkhaus , ancestors of Charlemagne and Widukind, Ennepetal 1950, additions 1953
  • AMHJ Stockvis, Manuel d'histoire, généalogie et de chronologie tome II, 1966
  • Walther Kienast , The Duke's Title in France and Germany, Munich-Vienna 1968
  • Jacques Saillot, Le sang de Charlemagne, Angers 1980