Juhael Berringer

• Preferred Name: Juhael Berringer^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: LZ8D-9DK
  
• Death: BEF 970 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France at LATI: N8.108 LONG: E1.6767
  
• Military: 939 with note: Description: fought alongside Alan II, Duke of Brittany and Hugh II of Maine against the Vikings at the Battle of Trans-la-Forêt
  
• Judicaël,+Comte+de+Poher: in Poher, Aulne Valley, Duchy of Brittany with note: Description: JUDICAEL (-after 903). Comte de Poher. "…Riuuelen comes, Pascuethen comes, Bran comes…Jedecael princeps Poucher…Moruuethen comes…Riuallon et Guigon filii Salomonis…" witnessed the charter dated 9 Jul 871 relating to a dispute involving the abbey of Redon[886]. "Jedecael princeps Poucaer …" witnessed the charter dated 903 under which "Coledoc" donated property to Redon[887]. La Borderie states that the county of Poher was located in the Aulne valley, between the two chains of the Arez mountains and the Montagnes Noires[884].
  
• Birth: 900 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France at LATI: N8.108 LONG: E1.6767
  
• Burial: ABT 970 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France at LATI: N8.108 LONG: E1.6767 with note: Information in find a grave.
  
• NAMES+also+known+as;+additional+background+information: with note: Description: JUDICAEL BERENGAR JUDICAEL (or Juhel, Judhel, Judhael), thus called in Breton sources, alias Berengar (or Berengarius) his name in Frankish sources, and sometimes known as Judicael Berengar, with both names being used together, was a Count of Rennes in the 10th century. BIOGRAPHY – There are conflicting accounts of his parentage, one popular solution making him the son and successor of a count Berengar (sometimes identified with Berengar of Rennes, sometimes with that man's supposed maternal grandson of the same name[1]) by a daughter of Gurvand, Duke of Brittany. However, an 11th-century collection of Angevin genealogies describes him as the son of Pascweten, son of Alan I, King of Brittany. In 939 he fought alongside Alan II, Duke of Brittany and Hugh II, Count of Maine against the Vikings/Norsemen at the Battle of Trans-la-Forêt.[2] He is first documented as a count in the year 944. He witnessed charters of Alan II, Duke of Brittany, and on the latter's death apparently fell under the control of Wicohen, Archbishop of Dol. Later sources report the rescue of Judicael and his (unnamed) wife by his son Conan I. He appears to have been dead by 979, when his son was at the court of Odo I, Count of Blois. NOTES – There is no primary evidence of a younger count Berengar, other than records which refer to Judicael himself, using his Frankish alias. Kim Hjardar, Vegard Vike. Vikings at War. Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC, 2016. p 334 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Broad background and understanding.
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rennes-31
  
  Biography
  It seems highly likely that the witness to documents known by the Breton name of Juhel (Judhaël or Judicaël) is the same person as another witness known under the Frankish name Bérenger and the Life and translation of St Gildas written in the middle of the eleventh century confirms he was known by both names.
  
  His first definite mention in a document, as Bérenger is dated to 944 but he could be the signatory to earlier documents as well. He signed under Juhael in about 950 and several times under various names in the later 950's. Bérenger and his son Conan are named in a Papal Letter of Pope John XIII (reigned 965-972), dated to about 970, and it seems he had definitely died before 16 August 979 when his son Conan was at the court of Count Eudes of Chartres.
  
  Judicaël "Juhael" (d. 970 or by 979), Comte de Rennes, witnessed charters of Alan II, Duke of Brittany, and on the latter's death apparently fell under the control of Wicohen, Archbishop of Dol. Later sources report the rescue of Judicael and his (unnamed) wife by his son Conan I. He appears to have been dead by 979, when his son was at the court of Odo I, Count of Blois.
  
  Disputed Parentage
  An eleventh century collection of Angevin genealogies names Bérenger as the son of Pascwethen, the son of Alain I the Grand, King of Brittany. This is Baldwin's preferred option.
  
  The other possibility is that he is the son of another Count Bérenger or that Bérengar and Juhel are father and son, rather than the same. This option is preferred by Cawley, who also gives an unnamed daughter of Gurvand, Duc de Bretagne as Judicaël's mother. But as Cawley notes, this is based on a much later publication (Histoire de Bretagne, by A. Le Moyne de la Borderie, published 1898) that doesn't cite any primary documents.
  
  There have been various attempts to identify Bérenger the father, with various men of the period, but there is no reliable evidence for any of these conjectures. Including a recent hypothesis that Juhael Bérenger is the grandson of Bérenger II de Bayeux, Marquis de Neustria.
  
  Several Ancestry.com family trees have Berenger de Bayeux and his wife Judith de Rennes as his parents but there seems to be no evidence Judith de Rennes existed.
  
  Disputed Father: Count Berengar vs. Pascwetan the younger
  Father: Count Berengar OR Pascwetan
  
  Conflicting accounts either make him son and successor to a count Berenger (sometimes Berengar of Rennes, sometimes with that man's supposed maternal grandson of the same name) and a daughter of Gurvand, Duke of Brittany. Another 11th-century collection of Angevin genealogies shows him to be son of Pascweten, son of Alan I, joint duke of Brittany.
  
  Disputed Mother:
  UNKNOWN de Bretagne (father: Gurwent (Gurvand), Duke of Brittany
  
  Disputed wife:
  Gerberga or Gerberge is listed as his wife in several sources, but although Gerberge married a man named Bérenger, there seems to be no evidence to equate him with Juhel Bérenger.
  
  Children
  He was definitely the father of;
  1.) Conan I of Rennes, Count of Brittany
  
  Unnamed sons and daughters
  
  And possibly the father of:
  1.) Meen (or Main) I, Lord of Ferns, died 1020
  
  2.) Enoguen, sister of Main de Fougères, wife of Tristan de Vitré.
  
  There is an extensive commentary about this person, and his origins and possible family relationships on The Henry Project website.
  
  "According to an 11th-century genealogy composed for the Count of Anjou, Alan I's son, Pascweten the Younger, was the father of Judicael Berengar, whose son was Conan I, Duke of Brittany, founder of the House of Rennes" (Wikipedia 04 Feb 2016).
  
  Cawley (2006, disagrees, naming no spouse or children for Pascwethen. He further states that Judicael, Comte de Rennes was the the son of Berengar, whose parents are UNKNOWN. The Henry Project, however, debates the possibility that Pascweten the Younger is the father of Juhel Berenger, but makes no confirmation of lineage.
  
  Note: ref: Wikipedia (05 May 10)
  Judicael alias Berengar was Count of Rennes in the mid-to-late 10th century. There are conflicting accounts of his parentage, one popular solution making him son and successor to a count Berenger (sometimes identified with Berengar of Rennes, sometimes with that man's supposed maternal grandson of the same name) by a daughter of Gurvand, Duke of Brittany. However, an 11th century collection of Anjevin genealogies shows him to be son of Pascweten, son of Alan I, King of Brittany.
  
  He is first documented as count in 944. He witnessed charters of Alan II, Duke of Brittany, and on the latter's death apparently fell under the control of Wicohen, Archbishop of Dol, later sources reporting the rescue of Judicael and his (unnamed) wife by son Conan. He appears to have been dead by 979, when his son was at the court of Odo I, Count of Blois.
  
  BIO
  BIO: Count of Rennes. A leader against the Norsemen, occ 931.
  
  ** from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BRITTANY.htm#ConanIdied992A as of 2/3/2016
  
  JUDICAËL [Juhael] (-[970]). Comte de Rennes. "Ala

1. Conan de Rennes I, b. 944 in Fourgeres, Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France     d. 27 JUN 992

1. Title: Wikipedia: Judicael Berengar
   Author: Notes: There is no primary evidence of a younger count Berengar, other than records which refer to Judicael himself, using his Frankish alias. Kim Hjardar, Vegard Vike. Vikings at War. Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC, 2016. p 334
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicael_Berengar;
   Note: Judicael (or Juhel, Judhel, Judhael), thus called in Breton sources, alias Berengar (or Berengarius) his name in Frankish sources, and sometimes known as Judicael Berengar, with both names being used together, was a Count of Rennes in the 10th century. Biography There are conflicting accounts of his parentage, one popular solution making him the son and successor of a count Berengar (sometimes identified with Berengar of Rennes, sometimes with that man's supposed maternal grandson of the same name[1]) by a daughter of Gurvand, Duke of Brittany. However, an 11th-century collection of Angevin genealogies describes him as the son of Pascweten, son of Alan I, King of Brittany. In 939 he fought alongside Alan II, Duke of Brittany and Hugh II, Count of Maine against the Vikings/Norsemen at the Battle of Trans-la-Forêt.[2] He is first documented as a count in the year 944. He witnessed charters of Alan II, Duke of Brittany, and on the latter's death apparently fell under the control of Wicohen, Archbishop of Dol. Later sources report the rescue of Judicael and his (unnamed) wife by his son Conan I. He appears to have been dead by 979, when his son was at the court of Odo I, Count of Blois.
   
2. Title: Global, Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/60541/records/179517741;
   
3. Title: Juhel Berenger, Conan I, Geoffrey I and Alain III in Essai sur Les Monnaies du Royaume et Duche de Bretagne, pgs. 29, 33-34, 36-37 [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: Essai sur Les Monnaies du Royaume et Duche de Bretagne, pgs. 29, 33-34, 36-37
   Note: Juhel Berneger, Conan I, Geoffrey I and Alain III in Essai sur Les Monnaies du Royaume et Duche de Bretagne, pgs. 29, 33-34, 36-37 [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Juhel Berneger, Conan I, Geoffrey I and Alain III in Essai sur Les Monnaies du Royaume et Duche de Bretagne, pgs. 29, 33-34, 36-37 [See document in the Memories section]
   
4. Title: Juhel Berenger, Conan le Tort, Hoel and Alain Fergant in Bulletin de la Societe Archeologique de Nantes, pg. 135-136 [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: Bulletin de la Societe Archeologique de Nantes, pg. 135-136
   Note: Juhel Berenger, Conan le Tort, Hoel and Alain Fergant in Bulletin de la Societe Archeologique de Nantes, pg. 135-136 [See document in the Memories section]
   
5. Title: Foundation for Medieval Geneaology: JUDICAËL [Juhael] (-[970])
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/brittnpr.htm#_ftnref517;
   Note: JUDICAËL [Juhael] (-[970]). Comte de Rennes. "Alanus dux Britonum" donated property to Landevenec by undated charter, dated to [940/50], witnessed by "Alan dux, Iudhæel comes…Houuel comes…Iestin vicecomes, Diles vicecomes…". "Judhael comite" confirmed a donation to Landevenec by "vir…stemate regalium ortus…Moysen" by undated charter dated to the mid-10th century. m GERBERGE, daughter of ---. The primary source which confirms her marriage has not yet been identified. Comte Judicaël & his wife had [three] childrena) CONAN de Rennes (-killed in battle Conquereil 27 Jun 992). The Chronicle of Nantes names "Conano filio Judicael Berengarii Redonensi comite" when recording that he held a large part of Brittany from Thibaut [II] Comte de Blois[528]. Comte de Rennes. He succeeded in [970] as CONAN I "le Tort" Duke of Brittany. Comte Judicaël & his wife had [three] children: a) CONAN de Rennes (-killed in battle Conquereil 27 Jun 992). The Chronicle of Nantes names "Conano filio Judicael Berengarii Redonensi comite" when recording that he held a large part of Brittany from Thibaut [II] Comte de Blois[528]. Comte de Rennes. He succeeded in [970] as CONAN I "le Tort" Duke of Brittany. - DUKES of BRITTANY. b) [MEEN (-1020). The primary source which confirms his parentage has not yet been identified. Seigneur de Fougères. "Mainonis avi mei…Alfridus genitor meus" are named in the undated charter under which "Maino" donated property to Sainte-Trinité de Fougères[529].] - SEIGNEURS de FOUGERES. c) [ENOGUEN . Le Baud records that “Tristan”, after his expulsion, was welcomed by “Men...seigneur de Foulgeres” and married “une [de ses] seur nommée Ynoguen”, receiving “tout ce qu’il avoit en Vendelays outre le fleuve de Coaynon” as dowry [530]. A primary source which confirms this information has not been identified. "Robert I de Vitré fils d´Enoguen, époux de Berthe, père d´André et de Robert" donated property to Marmoutier by charter dated to [1064/76][531]. m TRISCAN de Vitré, son of RIVALLON de Vitré & his wife Junargonda --- (-[1045], bur [Marcillé Saint-Ouen]).]
   
6. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
   Author: Ancestry Family Tree
   
7. Title: Global, Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/60541/records/179517741;
   
8. Title: Juhel Berenger, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6M5K-5G2M : 15 June 2022), Juhel Berenger, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 215254625, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6M5K-5G2M;
   
9. Title: Judicael Berengar from Wikipedia
   Author: Judicael Berengar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicael_Berengar;
   Note: Judicael Berengar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Judicael (or Juhel, Judhel, Judhael), thus called in Breton sources, alias Berengar (or Berengarius) his name in Frankish sources, and sometimes known as Judicael Berengar, with both names being used together, was a Count of Rennes in the 10th century. Biography There are conflicting accounts of his parentage, one popular solution making him the son and successor of a count Berengar (sometimes identified with Berengar of Rennes, sometimes with that man's supposed maternal grandson of the same name[1]) by a daughter of Gurvand, Duke of Brittany. However, an 11th-century collection of Angevin genealogies describes him as the son of Pascweten, son of Alan I, King of Brittany. In 939 he fought alongside Alan II, Duke of Brittany and Hugh II, Count of Maine against the Vikings/Norsemen at the Battle of Trans-la-Forêt.[2] He is first documented as a count in the year 944. He witnessed charters of Alan II, Duke of Brittany, and on the latter's death apparently fell under the control of Wicohen, Archbishop of Dol. Later sources report the rescue of Judicael and his (unnamed) wife by his son Conan I. He appears to have been dead by 979, when his son was at the court of Odo I, Count of Blois. Notes There is no primary evidence of a younger count Berengar, other than records which refer to Judicael himself, using his Frankish alias. Kim Hjardar, Vegard Vike. Vikings at War. Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC, 2016. p 334
   Page: The best information to date.
   
10. Title: Judicael, Conan and Geoffrey, Comtes de Rennes et Ducs de Bretagne in Historie des Rois et des Ducs de Bretagne, pgs. 2, 17, 35, 62-63 and 77 [See document in the Memories section]
    Author: Historie des Rois et des Ducs de Bretagne, pgs. 2, 17, 35, 62-63 and 77
    Note: Judicael, Conan and Geoffrey, Comtes de Rennes et Ducs de Bretagne in Historie des Rois et des Ducs de Bretagne, pgs. 2, 17, 35, 62-63 and 77 [See document in the Memories section]
    
11. Title: Juhel Berneger, Conan I, Geoffrey I and Alain III in Essai sur Les Monnaies du Royaume et Duche de Bretagne, pgs. 29, 33-34, 36-37 [See document in the Memories section]
    Author: Essai sur Les Monnaies du Royaume et Duche de Bretagne, pgs. 29, 33-34, 36-37