Nantes House

There were two Nantes houses. The ancestor of the first, according to the late genealogy compiled in the XI century in the monastery of Saint-Aubin d'Anger, was Riedored, who left two sons. The eldest of them, Pasqueten (d. 877), Earl of Bath with 851 and Earl of Nantes with 870, was the son-in-law of King Brittany Salomon , but this did not prevent him from taking part in the assassination of the king, after which Pasqueten shared with another participant in the assassination, Count Renna Hurvan , power in the kingdom. However, civil strife soon began between the former allies, which continued after the death of Gurvan and Paskveten, who was succeeded by his younger brother Alain (d. 907), later nicknamed the Great. But in the face of the Norman threat, Allen teamed up with Gurvan's heir Yudikael . After the death of Judikael, Alain was able to unite Brittany and, taking advantage of the weakness of the kings of the West Frankish kingdom , achieve recognition of the royal title and make Brittany independent. However, after the death of Alain I, Brittany was gradually captured by the Normans. The eldest of Alain's sons, Rudal (d. C. 913), died during one of the Norman raids, the rest of the sons probably died earlier.

The ancestor of the second Nantes house was the Earl of Poer Materiedua (d. 930/936), married to the daughter of Alain the Great. He fled with his family from the Normans to England , where he found shelter at the court of King Ethelstan . His son, Alain II Curve of the Beard , returned to Brittany in 936 and was able to oust the Normans from there by 939 , assuming the title of Duke of Brittany in 938 . However, Brittany under his rule turned out to be much smaller than the state of his grandfather. Alain II managed to restore order and even expand the possessions a little, however, after his early death, the only legitimate son and heir, Drogo (Dre) (d. 958), was still a child, his grandfather was the mother of Thibault Old , Count of Tours, regency which Brittany broke up into several parts. The actual ruler of Nantes was Earl of Anjou Fulk II , who married the widow of Alain II, but Earl of Rennes Yudikael Beranger was actually an independent ruler. Drogo died in 958 under strange circumstances, leaving no heirs. Fulk was accused of murder and the counts of Nantes and Bath consistently had two illegitimate sons of Alain II, Joel I (d. 981) and Güeres (d. 988), after whose death the title of Duke of Brittany of the Nantes House was lost.

Güeres left the only childless son of Alain III (d. 990), Earl of Nantes, Bath and titular Duke of Brittany from 988. Joel I had two illegitimate sons, Hoel II (d. 992) and Udikael (d. 1004), successively reigning in Nantes. In 994, Judikael also managed to return the county of Nantes to the family. The descendants of Judikael ruled in Nantes and Bath until the death of childless Mathieu I in 1051 , after which the male lineage died out. The estate was inherited by Judikael's daughter, Judit (d. 1063), who was married to the representative of the Cornish House Alain .

First Nantes House

Ridored

• Pasqueten (d. 877), Count of Bath with 851 and Count of Nantes from 870, King of South Brittany from 874; wife: Prostlon (d. 876), daughter of Salomon , king of Brittany
• Alain I the Great (d. 907) (d. 907), Earl of Bath and Nantes from 877, king of South Brittany and 877, king of Brittany from 888/890; 1st wife: Oreguen (Orgem) ; 2nd wife: N
  • (from the 1st marriage) Rudal (d. c. 913), Count Bath with 907
  • (from the 1st marriage) Gyurek (d. 897/903)
  • (from the 1st marriage) Paskveten (d. 897/903)
  • (from the 1st marriage) Budik (d. after 897)
  • (from the 1st marriage) daughter ; husband: Mathiedua (d. 936), Count of Poer , founder of the second Nantes House
• (from the 2nd marriage) Deryan (d. after 910)

Second Nantes House

Mathiedua (d. 936), Count of Poer ; wife: daughter of Alain I the Great

• Alain II Curve Beard (c. 910–952), Earl of Bath and Poer from 937, Earl of Nantes and Duke of Brittany from 938; 1st wife: Roskilde (d. Before 948), daughter of Fulk I , Count of Anjou; 2nd wife: from 948 Judit (Adelaide) , daughter of Thibaut the Old , Count of Tour
  • (from the 1st marriage) Herberg ; husband: Judicael (Yuel) Beranger (d. c. 970), Count of Rennes with 920
  • (from the 2nd marriage) Drogo (Dreux) (d. 958), Count of Nantes, Bath and Duke of Brittany with 952
  • (nezak.) Joel I (d. 981), Count of Nantes, Bath and Duke of Brittany with 958
    • (undecided) Joel II (d. 992), Earl of Bath from 990
    • (nezak.) Yudikael (d. 1004), Count of Bath with 992, Count of Nantes with 994; wife: melicenta
      • Judit (d. 1063); husband: Alain Kenyar ( d . 1058), Earl of Cornwall from 1026
      • Budik (d. 1037/1038), Count of Nantes and Bath with 1004; wife: advis
        • Mathieu I (d. 1051), Count of Nantes and Bath from 1037/1038
  • (nezak.) Gyueres (d. 988), Bishop of Nantes, Count of Nantes, Bath and Duke of Brittany with 981
    • Alain III (d. 990), Count of Nantes, Bath, titular Duke of Brittany from 988
  • (undecided) Judit ; husband: Pons (c. 910–979), Viscount of Marseille

• Rennes house
• Cornish house
• Brittany rulers
• List of Counts of Nantes
• List of bath rulers

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