Poher

The Poher is an old principality appeared with the Early middle ages in the mid-west of the Brittany and whose capital was the Gallo-Roman city of Vorgium , become Carhaix after the Fall of the Roman Empire.

The name of Poher derives from Pou Kaer , Pou being an evolution of Latin pagus (“country” or old district of the Gallo-Roman cities) and kaer , Breton old man, “strengthened city”.

With the Middle Ages, Carhaix was only a trève of Plouguer ( Plou-Kaer = “the parish of the City or castle”), having only one church tréviale dedicated to Trémeur saint. Plouguer whose church is dedicated to Pierre saint - indirect evidence of seniority - is the seat of the primitive parish which draws its name from strengthened in the past site that it includes. Become common to the French revolution, Carhaix and Plouguer amalgamated in 1956 under the name of Carhaix-Plouguer. .

Poher was the seat of a powerful dynasty of the counts at the time Carolingian. Conomor ( Kon Meur = Large Dog) bathes in a legend which makes the of it Bore-Blue of Brittany at the 6th century. It would have killed his many successive wives, not saving the last, Sainte Tryphine, and their young child Saint Trémeur ( Trec' H Meur = Grand Winner) whom it would have decapitated. Holy Gildas having miraculeusement replaced the head, the child would have come narguer his father by throwing a handle to him from ground. Struck by divine revenge, Conomor would have perished instantaneously.

The name of Conomor is quoted several times by Gregoire de Tours like a Breton count who saves Macliauus of the vindication of his brother, the count of Brittany, Chanao. It is also an accessible adversary of the Francs Chramme fights about it with his brother the king Clotaire II. It also appears at various times on other side of the Manche and in the Vies of the Breton Saints.

In 871, whereas Solomon is still king de Bretagne, Judicaël is indicated as princeps Poucher without one knowing what mark this not very frequent dignity at the time.
A Viscount of Poher, named Bernard, appears at the 11th century and its line appears to have granted an private interest to the Holy-Cross abbey of Quimperlé, thus seeming to take over dynasty of Cornwall which had reached ducal dignity since Hoël II in 1066.

In a pulley of the 14th century, Poher remains like one of both archidiaconés of évêché of Cornwall, with that called also Cornwall. This last included/understood only the deaneries of the Cape Sizun, the Cape-Caval (future Pays Bigouden) and of Fouesnant (of Gourin to Clohars-Fouesnant).

Poher then is associated with the major part of évêché, which leads Joelle Quaghebeur to consider that Carolingian name Poher succeeds the name of Cornwall.

In 1996, Poher reappeared like administrative unit in the form of the community of communes of the same name, including/understanding Carhaix-Plouguer, Cléden-Poher, Kergloff, Poullaouen, Plounévézel, Saint-Hernin, Spézet, all in Finistere, and a commune of the department close to the Coast-with Armor, Moustoir.

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