Conan Ier of Brittany

See also: Conan of Brittany

Conan Ier of Brittany , known as the Wrong , († Conquereuil, June 27th 992), the son of Juhel Berenger, was count de Rennes (970) and duke of Brittany (990 - 992). He is the father of Geoffroi Ier of Brittany.

After being itself removed from the supervision of Wicohen, the archbishop of Fraud-of-Brittany, which had imposed its suzerainté on his/her Conan father is mentioned for the first time like Conanus commes Britanniae the August 16th 979 at the court of the count Eudes of Chartres.

Conan takes then the control of Vannetais by being combined with Orscand the Large one, bishop of Valves (970 - 992). The first and undecided battle of Conquereuil disputed against Hoël of Nantes in 981 does not enable him to impose its suzerainté on the Nantes one.

After the dispariton of the count Guérech of Nantes, it puts the hand on the county of Nantes in 990 after the death of its young heir the count Alain and would have been proclaimed " duke of Bretagne". At the time of the confirmation of a donation made with the abbey of the Mount Saint Michel, the July 28th 990 in the presence of the whole of the bishops of Brittany, Conan takes the title of Princeps Britannorum .

New the count d' Anjou (Foulques Nerra) worrying about its political ascendance proclaims the defender of the interests of the house of Nantes and it delivers combat to him. Conan Ier is killed in the defeat, at the time of the second Bataille of Conquereuil in 992.

Conan Ier of Brittany was buried in the abbey church of the Mont Saint Michel of which he was the benefactor.

Of its union with Ermengarde girl of Geoffroy Ier of Anjou it leaves at least two children:

Although no other wife is known to him, the three following wire are never regarded as children of Ermengarde.

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