Domnonée

The Domnonée (lat. Dumnonia ) indicates at the 6th century two kingdoms bordering the two Western shores of the Manche. In Great Britain, then called Brittany , this kingdom extended on the current county from Devon (this last name being evolution of the word Dumnonia ), and before also on the Dorset and the Somerset. The Cornouailles was perhaps also included.

Foundation

In the Armorican peninsula then called “Small Brittany”, the kingdom would have been based by Riwal, resulting from the county of Gwent to the Wales on the zone corresponding to the northern coast of the Brittany, the Trégor to the country of Dol while passing by the Goélo and the Penthièvre. After 530, it includes the future Diocèse of Leon.

the list of the princes provided in external bond starts, it, at the beginning of the 4th century with Caradoc (Caratacus) for the island of Great Britain .

Description

See also: History of Brittany

Riwall founds the kingdom of Domnonée towards 500. It arrives with a large fleet. It came from the kingdom of Gwent in the south-east of Wales and “it continued to reign as a dux Brittonum on each side of the sea until its death”. He was elected king, as well by the natives as by the Breton ones. Riwall had to remove the country from a band of Frisons which had as a chief certain Corsold. One must retain the narrowness of the political bonds between insular Brittany (Wales, Cornouailles, Devon), and Armorican Brittany of the continent which accommodates many kings, princes, clerks and founders of insular Brittany. We see them crossing insular Domnonée before slipping in the English Channel. It is necessary to have for the spirit that the sea was in general a factor of unit: it linked more than it did not divide. In the traditions relating to the Colonisation of Brittany by the Breton ones we find kingdoms double of this kind. (Nora Kershaw Chadwick, Celtic Kingdoms).

Many places will be named name of the chiefs of these clans (plou-, tre-, lan-,…)

Hagiographies

The hagiographic sources (lives of Holy Guénolé, Holy Corentin, Holy Holy Ronan and pol. Aurélien, known as Domnonéen by one of its hagiographal, as well as the partly forged charters of Landévennec), make it possible to highlight the narrowness of the political bonds and monk between the west of Wales and Brittany which accommodates many kings, counts and religious founders resulting from the first. However these people cross insular Domnonée before slipping in the English Channel. The close links result in possessions on the two sides of the English Channel. For example, the Abbey Notre-Dame de Beauport, before Henri VIII, had parishes on the coast of Goélo and in current Devon.

Assumptions

One put forth the assumption of only one sovereignty out of the two kingdoms and Conomor, which seems to be the same man having left traditions on each side, would have been one of the recipients. He would then have been a military chief of the Breton romanized islanders who kept on the English Channel of the pirate raids, perhaps in perfect agreement with Childebert Ier, wire of Clovis.

This kingdom double in continental Brittany and in the Devon gives identical to the Royaume of Dalriada, which is contemporary for him; the double assumption of sovereignty is thus not without historical equivalent.
This assumption of a single reign of the legendary sovereign: Conomor links the region to the county of the Poher (to read the generic article) .

In 1034, the term still indicates the county of Penthièvre when it is allotted in prerogative to Eudes, second wire of Geoffroi Ier, duke of Brittany. Name disappears then.

See too

Internal bonds

External bond

List of the princes de Domnonée '' ''

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