Battle of Blain

Battle of Blain (May 24th 843)

The Dux Britanniae Nominoé wishing to increase its states was going to pass the Vilaine to the head of a strong army which it ordered with his son Erispoë. The Nantais advanced towards the Unpleasant one under the control of the Renaud d' Herbauges. They met with Messac and it is the count Renaud who gained the victory. Several sources (see Dom Morice, Réginon de Prüm) also mention the possibility that Nominoé was then reached by a rather serious disease and that command of the troops directed against the Nantes area, was entrusted to his/her son only. That would explain of as much better the hazardous nature of the meeting known as of Blain.

Renaud believing the enemy completely out of combat, joins together a rather many troop and took again the direction of Nantes. Arrived at Blain, it stopped to make put back its soldiers. Chief and soldiers were there, tells us the Chronicle , wide on grass close to the edges of the Isac, in the most complete abandonment, when suddenly a many troop was thrown on them: it was the famous Lambert II of Nantes that Charles-the-Bald person had driven out of Nantes. It had made alliance with the Breton ones, and with the head of soldiers gathered on the borders of the Anjou, it was advanced on the Unpleasant one, in order to join together its forces with those of Nominoé. Sworn enemy of Renaud who had taken his place as chief of the Nantes county, it put himself at his continuation, wanting to satisfy his revenge and to repair the disaster. He surprised the Nantes ones disarmed, and made a great carnage of it; itself, out of its own hand killed the count Renaud: it was the May 25th 843. And soon after, all the Nantes Pays became Breton. (See Treated of Angers)

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