Poher

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Poher is a landscape in the west of Brittany and in the east of the Finistère department , the name of which can be found today in the communal association "Communauté de Communes du Poher" (founded in 1996). It includes the municipalities of Carhaix-Plouguer , Cléden-Poher , Kergloff , Motreff , Plounévézel , Poullaouen and Saint-Hernin on the eastern edge of the Finistère department and Le Moustoir on the western edge of the Côtes-d'Armor department .

In the early Middle Ages Poher was a county with the capital Vorgium, today Carhaix-Plouguer, and the sphere of influence of a powerful family of counts, later one of the provinces of the Ancien Régime within Brittany.

Count of Poher

  • Konomor (6th century, legendary, but mentioned several times by Gregory of Tours )
  • Rivallon (Rivallo) III., Count of Poher, father of Duke Solomon of Brittany
  • Rivallon IV, Count of Poher, son of Duke Solomon
  • Judicael, Count von Poher, from 876 pretender to the title of duke († 888) ( Rennes house )
  • Mahueldoc (Matuedo) I, Count von Poher, son-in-law of Duke Alain I († 907) ( House of Cornouaille )
  • Alain II Barbetorte, his son, Count of Vannes , Poher and Nantes, Duke of Brittany († 952)
  • Bernard, Viscount de Poher (11th century)

literature

  • Christian Yves-Marie Kerboul: Petite histoire du Grand-Poher. Édition du Pontig et al., Sautron et al. 2000, ISBN 2-9510310-7-6 ( Sources de l'histoire de Bretagne ).
  • Joëlle Quaghebeur: La Cornouaille du Ixe on XIIe siècle. Société archéologique du Finistère, Quimper 2001, ISBN 2-906790-05-2 .