County of Vannes

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The county of Vannes around the city of Vannes (in the ancient capital of the Venetians ) existed as an independent principality at the beginning of the 6th century , and at the end of the century it was called the Kingdom of Vannes . The most important rulers were Canao (or Conan), who supported the uprising of the Merovingian Chramn († end of 560) against King Chlothar I , and his nephew Waroch, who occupied Vannes in 577 . His successor Judicael extended his power to Domnonée and seems to have accepted the title of King of the Bretons.

Pippin the Younger conquered Vannes in 753 and established a fragile Carolingian rule in the region, which was repeatedly shaken by rebellions ( 786 , 799 , 818 , 824 and 825 ). Even the intervention of Louis the Pious in 818 did not end this.

In the 8th century , the area around Vannes was integrated into the Breton Mark (consisting of the counties of Rennes , Vannes and Nantes ) - and in the following years his counts were always one of the contenders for supremacy in and the title of duke of Brittany (the Alain of Big 888 after the Battle of Questembert , in which Judicael von Rennes fell, could also prevail) until the area came under the sovereignty of the county of Nantes in the 10th century and the county of Rennes after 990.

Counts of Vannes

  • Wido, Count, probably from 813 to 831/32 Count of Vannes ( Guidonen ), perhaps identical to Count Wido of Maine , X 834
  • Nominoë , Count of Vannes 819–851
  • Ridoredh, Count of Vannes
  • Pasquitain I., Count of Vannes 874–877, son of Ridoredh, son-in-law of Solomon
  • Alain I the Great , Count of Vannes, sole ruler of Brittany 888–907, brother of Pasquitain I.
  • Pasquitain II, Count of Vannes, † around 903, son of Alains I.
    • Malhuedoc I., Count of Poher , son-in-law of Alain I,
  • Alain II, Count of Vannes and Nantes 936–952