• Hoël I of Brittany was an illegitimate son of Alan II and Judith. He was Count of Nantes and Duke of Brittany from 960 to 981. Upon the death of Drogo...
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  • granddaughter of the illegitimate son of Duke Alan II of Brittany. Hoël started the House of Cornouaille of Brittany, which ruled the duchy until 1156. Hoël became...
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    at least two illegitimate sons, Hoël and Guerech, who would each succeed Drogo during the fractured rule of Brittany after Drogo's death. Alan was buried...
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    II of Rennes (c. 1033 – 11 December 1066) was Duke of Brittany, from 1040 to his death. Conan was the eldest child and heir of Alan III, Duke of Brittany...
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    to his death. Alan was the son of Duke Geoffrey I and Hawise of Normandy. Alan succeeded his father as Duke of Brittany in 1008. Because he was still a...
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    to his death. He was the son of Alan IV, Duke of Brittany and Ermengarde of Anjou. Conan III allied himself with Stephen of England in the Anarchy, Stephen's...
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    Charles of Blois-Châtillon (1319 – 29 September 1364), nicknamed "the Saint", was the legalist Duke of Brittany from 1341 until his death, via his marriage...
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    October 1119) was Duke of Brittany from 1072 until his abdication in 1112. He was also Count of Nantes (from c. 1103) and Count of Rennes. His parents...
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    Young, was the Duke of Brittany from 1156 to 1166. He was the son of Bertha, Duchess of Brittany, and her first husband, Alan, Earl of Richmond. Conan...
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  • brother Hoël I upon his death. Guerech had been brought up at the Abbey of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, near Orléans. He was appointed bishop of Nantes in...
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  • brothers Hoël and Guerech, and the latter's son Alan. The fractured rule over Brittany resulted in a short vacancy in the title Duke of Brittany. Conan I had...
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    Brittany through the marriage of his daughter Bertha to her cousin Alan, whose father inherited two of the provinces of Brittany. Hoël was given Nantes for his...
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  • of Penthièvre and Agnes of Cornouaille, sister of Hoël II, Duke of Brittany. In 1093, he succeeded to the title of Count of Tréguier; in 1098, he succeeded...
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  • Hoel is a king of Brittany in the Arthurian legend. Hoel may also refer to: Hoël I, Duke of Brittany (reigned 960–981) Hoël II, Duke of Brittany (c.1031–1084)...
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    hereditary Duchess of Brittany. She married Hoël of Cornouaille. Hoel ruled as Hoel II, Duke of Brittany and started the House of Kernev which continued...
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  • Drogo was the count of Vannes and Nantes and duke of Brittany from 952, when he succeeded his father, Alan Wrybeard, until his death in 958. Drogo was...
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  • 1201) was Duchess of Brittany from 1166 to her death in 1201 and Countess of Richmond from 1171 to 1201. Constance was the daughter of Duke Conan IV by his...
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  • of Nantes in 937. 938 – 952 Alan I Barbetorte, grandson of Alan I, King of Brittany, also Duke of Brittany 952 – 960 Drogo, his son 960 – 981 Hoël I,...
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    youngest of the three sons of Duke Geoffrey I of Brittany and Hawise of Normandy, daughter of Richard I of Normandy. Eudon married Agnes of Cornouaille...
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  • Judicaël of Nantes (c. 979–1004) was Count of Nantes from 992 to his death in 1004. Judicaël was the illegitimate son of Hoël I, Duke of Brittany. He was...
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  • Louis VI of France confirmed the bishop of Nantes. No other Duke of Brittany repeated Alan II's homage until Arthur I recognised Philip II of France as...
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  • duchess consort of Brittany by her marriage to Conan III, Duke of Brittany. She was an illegitimate daughter of Henry I of England by one of his unknown mistresses...
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    King Hoel (Breton: Hoel I Mawr, lit. "Hoel the Great"; Latin: Hoelus, Hovelus, Hœlus), also known as Sir Howel, Saint Hywel and Hywel the Great, was a...
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  • seldom appeared at the court of Duke Conan III, Duke of Brittany. During the reign of Conan’s brother-in-law and heir Hoël of Cornouailles, he even joined...
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    1058) was the count of Cornouaille from 1020 to 1058. He was the son of Benoît de Cornouaille and the father of Hoël II, Duke of Brittany. His family name...
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  • technically Duke Consort and then Regent for his son Alan IV; also known as Hoël V, Count of Cornouaille Alan IV, Duke of Brittany, son-in-law of William...
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    Herfast (or Arfast), Norman Lord Chancellor Hoël II, duke of Brittany (House of Cornouaille) Saw Lu, king of the Pagan Kingdom (b. 1049) "Henry IV, Holy...
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  • (recognized), Queen of Brittany Saint Salomon - Saint (by tradition), King of Brittany Saint Judicael - son of a Hoel; King of Domnonia & then Brittany; declared...
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    Angevin Empire (category House of Plantagenet)
    suggests that Hoël was illegitimate and instead he was only recognised as Count of Nantes. Hoël's sister Bertha became Duchess of Brittany, ruling alongside...
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  • Conan IV, Duke of Brittany and her second husband Odo. Odo may have made a compact with his brother-in-law, Hoel of Nantes, to divide Brittany between them...
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