Guérech of Brittany

Guérech of Brittany , count de Nantes and duke of Brittany of 981 with 988

Wire illegitimate junior by Alain II of Brittany and the noble Judith, it succeeds her brother Hoël Ier of Brittany died of this one.

Guérech is high with the abbey of the Saint-Benoit-on-Loire close to Orleans. Bishop elected of Nantes in 981, but probably not devoted, it does not exert priesthood but retains during the 7 years of his reign the temporal one of évêché which it manages with the county of Nantes.

He continues the combat initiated by his brother against the count de Rennes Conan the Wrong. Guérech signs a treaty with the count Guillaume IV of Poitiers who confirms the Nantes possessions in the south of the Loire - the pagi of Herbauges, of Tiffauges and of Mauges - obtained by his father Alain II of Brittany in 942.

Guérech then goes in 983 to the court of the king of Francie Occidentale Lothaire to lend homage to him, and stops, on the way of the return, in the count Geoffroy Ier of Anjou.

Already silent partner of the assassination of Hoël Ier, Conan the Wrong, fearing, rightly, an alliance between the counts of Nantes and Anjou against him, would have convinced the doctor of Guérech, Héroicus, also abbot of the Abbaye Saint-Saver of Redon to poison the duke.

Guérech dies like his/her brother prematurely, in 988 and is buried in the Abbaye Saint-Saver of Redon. Its Aremburge wife, lady of Ancenis, which will have given him an only son, Alain, which will survive to him only two years.

Source

The life of the count Guérech as that of his Hoël brother is primarily known to us by the Chronique of Nantes compiled with the XI éme century and which is unfavourable with Breton in general and with of Rennes in particular.

Chronic of Nantes => Gallica http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55624v

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