Conan de Rennes I

• Preferred Name: Conan de Rennes I^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}
  
• Alternate Name: Conan I de Rennes
  
• Alternate Name: Conan "The Crooked" I Of Rennes
  
• Gender: M
  
• History+of+Britanny: with note: Description: The union of the country as Brittany occurred in 851 under King Erispoë, son of Nominoë, but was disrupted by disputes over succession and Norsemen incursions. Since 939, Brittany was re-established as a Sovereign Duchy with somewhat definite borders, administered by Dukes of Breton houses from 939 to 1166, before falling into the sphere of influence of the Plantagenets and then the Capets. The War of the Breton Succession lasted from 1341 to 1364 against the backdrop of the Hundred Years' War. An autonomous power emerged in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, maintaining a policy of independence from France. The union of Brittany to France occurred in 1532. The Breton province then maintained relative autonomy and benefited from its own institutions
  
• FSID: LZGK-GZB
  
• Death: 27 JUN 992 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Nickname:
  
• History+of+Britanny: with note: Description: The union of the country as Brittany occurred in 851 under King Erispoë, son of Nominoë, but was disrupted by disputes over succession and Norsemen incursions. Since 939, Brittany was re-established as a Sovereign Duchy with somewhat definite borders, administered by Dukes of Breton houses from 939 to 1166, before falling into the sphere of influence of the Plantagenets and then the Capets. The War of the Breton Succession lasted from 1341 to 1364 against the backdrop of the Hundred Years' War. An autonomous power emerged in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, maintaining a policy of independence from France. The union of Brittany to France occurred in 1532. The Breton province then maintained relative autonomy and benefited from its own institutions. After a period of strong economic and demographic growth in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, due to a period of newfound peace, Brittany experienced a troubled period from the end of the seventeenth century to the French Revolution of 1789. Brittany was dissolved in 1789 and divided among the departments of Côtes-du-Nord, Finistère, Ille-et-Vilaine, Loire-Inférieure and Morbihan.
  
• Birth: 944 in Fourgeres, Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France at LATI: N8.108 LONG: E1.6767 with note: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215254625/juhel-berenger. This information fits with mothers dates.
  
• Angevin+Empire: with note: Description: Brittany, first conquered by Henry I in 1113, was finally brought into the Angevin “empire” when Henry II's son Geoffrey, who had married the heiress of Duke Conan IV, succeeded as duke of Brittany in 1171.
  
• Burial: 29 JUN 992 in Saint-Michel, Morbihan, Bretagne, France at LATI: N8.0399 LONG: E2.9704
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  geni.com Conan I 'le Tort’ de Rennes, duc de Bretagne French: Conan de Bretagne, Comte de Rennes, Duc de Bretagne Also Known As:
  "Conan the Crooked (le Tort) de Bretagne", "Duke of Brittany Comte d'Rennes' 'Duque de Bretagne' 'Conon' 'Duke of Brittany' 'le Tort", "the Crooked' and 'Count De Bretagne'", "le Tort", "Le Tort", "The Crooked", "/Conan of Rennes", "Duke of Brittany/", "Duke de Bretagn..." Birthdate: circa 940 Death: June 27, 992 (47-56) Conquereuil, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
  (killed in battle) Place of Burial: Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel, Le Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandie, France Immediate Family:
  Son of Judicaël Berenger de Rennes, comte de Rennes and Gerberge de Hunebourg Husband of Ermangarde d'Anjou, Duchess of Bretagne
  Father of Geoffroy I, duc de Bretagne; Judith of Brittany; Catuallon de Bretagne; Hernod de Bretagne and Judicaël, comte de Porhoët
  Brother of Meen I, seigneur de Fougères; Enoguen de Rennes and Martin I de Vitré, Seigneur de Vitré
  Occupation: Duke of Brittany, Hertug, Duke of Rennes, DUKE OF BRITTANY, duc de Bretagne (988-992), comte de Rennes (970), comte de Nantes, count of Rennes from 958 and duke of Brittany from 990 to his death, COMTE DE RENNES, Count of Rennes; Duke of Brittany, Herttua
  
  Conan I (June 27, 992) nicknamed Le Tort (The Crooked) was the Duke of Brittany from 990 to his death. He was the son of Judicael Berengar, succeeding his father as Count of Rennes in 970.
  
  Life
  He assumed the title of Duke of Brittany in the spring of 990 following his attack on Nantes and the subsequent death of Count Alan. As duke his rule succeeded the Regency that governed Brittany during the life of Drogo and the fractured rule of Brittany after Drogo's death by his illegitimate brothers Hoël and Guerech, and the latter's son Alan. The fractured rule over Brittany resulted in a short vacancy in the title Duke of Brittany. Conan I had to ally himself with the Odo I, Count of Blois in order to defeat Judicael Berengar before he could assume the title of Duke.
  
  In a charter dated 28 July 990, Conan gave the lands of Villamée, Lillele and Passille to Mont Saint-Michel, all of which later became part of the seigneury of Fougères.
  
  Conan married Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou, in 973, daughter of Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou and Adele of Vermandois.
  
  Conan's alliance with the Odo of Blois had helped him defeat Judicael Berengar. However the alliance with Blois became troublesome and he later needed to "rid himself of influence from Blois, which he accomplished by signing a pact with Richard I of Normandy; this pact established firm Breton-Norman links for the first time." Richard I had married the daughter of Hugh I the Great, and after this marriage had re-asserted his father's claim as Overlord of the Breton duchy. Conan I's pact with Normandy strengthened that assertion but the historical documentation for that Overlordship claim remains doubtful because it largely appears only in the less than authoritative writings of Dudo of Saint-Quentin.
  
  Conan died fighting his brother-in-law Fulk Nerra, Count of Anjou at the Battle of Conquereuil on 27 June 992. Conan is buried at Mont Saint-Michel Abbey.
  
  Family
  By his wife Ermengarde-Gerberga he had the following issue:
  
  1.) Geoffrey (c.980-1008), the eventual heir.
  
  2.) Judith (982-1017), married Richard II, Duke of Normandy.
  
  3.) Judicael, Count of Porhoët (died 1037).
  
  4.) Hernod.
  
  5.) Catuallon, Abbot of Redon
  
  BIO
  
  CONAN de Rennes, son of JUDICAËL [Juhael] Comte de Rennes & his wife Gerberge --- (-killed in
  battle Conquereil 27 Jun 992). The Chronicle of Nantes names "Conano filio Judicael Berengarii Redonensi
  
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  Life History
  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rennes-22
  
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  === Duke of Brittany, killed in battle 992. ===
  Duke of Brittany, killed in battle 992.

• m. 973 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France

1. Geoffrey de Bretagne, b. ABT 975 in Of Rennes, Ille-Et-Vilaine, Bretagne, Normandie, France     d. 20 NOV 1008 in Nantes, Loire Atlantique, Anjou Pays De La Loire, France
2. Judith de Rennes Duchesse consort de Normandie, b. 21 MAR 982 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France     d. 16 JUN 1017 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France

1. Title: Conan de Rennes and Ermengarde in Foulques Nerra les Angevins Conquerants, pg. 121 [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: Foulques Nerra les Angevins Conquerants, pg. 121
   Note: Conan de Rennes and Ermengarde in Foulques Nerra les Angevins Conquerants, pg. 121 [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Conan de Rennes and Ermengarde in Foulques Nerra les Angevins Conquerants, pg. 121 [See document in the Memories section]
   
2. Title: Conan I de Rennes (944-992), "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGC-M5C6 : 12 May 2022), Conan I de Rennes, ; Burial, Pontorson, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France, Mont Saint-Michel Abbey; citing record ID 115825315, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGC-M5C6;
   Note: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115825315/conan_i-de_rennes Conan I de Rennes BIRTH 944 Bretagne, France DEATH 27 Jun 992 (aged 47–48) Conquereuil, Departement de la Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France BURIAL Mont Saint-Michel Abbey Pontorson, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France MEMORIAL ID 115825315 Spouse: Ermengarde D'Anjou Bretagne De Rennes (958–1022)
   
3. Title: Conan I of Rennes, Duke of Brittany Wikipedia (English)
   Author: Bibliography Alexander, Jonathan James Graham (1970). Norman illumination at Mont St Michel, 966–1100. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. Bachrach, Bernard S. (1993). Fulk Nerra, the neo-Roman consul, 987-1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Delumeau, Jean (1969). Histoire de la Bretagne. Toulouse, France: Edouard Privat editeur; Jean Delumeau, directeur, with contributing authors P-R Giot, J L'Helgouach, J Briard, J-B Colbert de Beaulieu, L Pape, P Rache, G Devailly, H Touchard, J Meyer, A Mussat, and G Le Guen (chapters do not specify individual authors). Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. (1994). 'Two Studies in North French Prosopography', Journal of Medieval History Vol. 20. Price, Neil S. (1989). "The Vikings in Brittany" (PDF). Saga-Book of the Viking Society. XXII (6): 319–440.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_I_of_Rennes;
   Note: Conan I (died 27 June 992) nicknamed Le Tort (The Crooked) was the Duke of Brittany from 990 to his death. Life Count to Duke Conan was the son of Judicael Berengar, succeeding his father as Count of Rennes in 970.[1] Conan assumed the title of Duke of Brittany in the spring of 990 following his attack on Nantes and the subsequent death of Count Alan.[2] As Duke, his rule succeeded the Regency that governed Brittany during the life of Drogo and the fractured rule of Brittany after Drogo's death by his illegitimate brothers Hoël and Guerech, and the latter's son Alan.[3] The fractured rule over Brittany resulted in a short vacancy in the title Duke of Brittany. Conan I had to ally himself with Odo I, Count of Blois in order to defeat Judicael Berengar before he could assume the title of Duke.[4] Mont Saint-Michel, endowed by Conan I, and his final resting place The Mont St Michel land charter In a charter dated 28 July 990, Conan gave the lands of Villamée, Lillele and Passille to Mont Saint-Michel, all of which later became part of the seigneury of Fougères. [5] Marriage alliance Conan married Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou,[a][6] in 973, daughter of Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou and Adele of Vermandois.[1] Conan's alliance with Odo of Blois [3] had helped him defeat Judicael Berengar. Norman Pact The alliance with Blois eventually became troublesome and he later needed to "rid himself of influence from Blois, [which he accomplished by signing] a pact with Richard I of Normandy; [this pact] established firm Breton-Norman links for the first time." [4] Richard I had married the daughter of Hugh I the Great, and after this marriage had re-asserted his father's claim as Overlord of the Breton duchy. [4] Conan I's pact with Normandy strengthened that assertion but the historical documentation for that Overlordship claim remains doubtful because it largely appears only in the less than authoritative writings of Dudo of Saint-Quentin. [4] [b] Death Conan died fighting his brother-in-law Fulk Nerra, Count of Anjou at the Battle of Conquereuil on 27 June 992.[7] Conan is buried at Mont Saint-Michel Abbey. [8] Family By his wife Ermengarde-Gerberga he had the following issue: Geoffrey (c. 980–1008), the eventual heir.[1] Judith (982–1017), married Richard II, Duke of Normandy.[1] Judicael, count of Porhoët (died 1037).[1] Hernod.[1] Catuallon, Abbot of Redon
   
4. Title: Conan I, Geoffrey I, Alain III, Conan II, Dukes of Brittany, in Cartulaire de L'Abbaye de Saint-Georges de Rennes, pgs. 16-19 and 32 [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: Cartulaire de L'Abbaye de Saint-Georges de Rennes, pgs. 16-19 and 32
   Note: Conan I, Geoffrey I, Alain III, Conan II, Dukes of Brittany, in Cartulaire de L'Abbaye de Saint-Georges de Rennes, pgs. 16-19 and 32 [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Conan I, Geoffrey I, Alain III, Conan II, Dukes of Brittany, in Cartulaire de L'Abbaye de Saint-Georges de Rennes, pgs. 16-19 and 32 [See document in the Memories section]
   
5. 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]
   Page: 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]