Conan "le Tort" Duc de Bretagne Comte de Rennes
- Born: 927, Bretagne, France
- Marriage: Ermangarde de d’Anjou in 973 in Rennes, Bretagne 160,528,851
- Died: 27 Jun 992, Conquereil. France at age 65 160,709
 Another name for Conan was Conan, Duke of Brittany.
General Notes:
His parentage is confirmed by the Chronico Sancti Michaelis which records the death of his grandson "Gaufridus Dux Britannić filius Conani filii Juhelli Berengarii" in 1008. [Chronico Sancti Michaelis in periculo maris, RHGF X, p. 175]
~Weis's Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 119A:21, son of Judicael Berenger by Gerberge, and married to Ermengarde d'Anjou. He was the duc de Bretagne et comté de Rennes. 160
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information: 726
Conan I, le Tort, count of Rennes, became Duke of Brittany in 987. The name of his first wife is unknown, but his second was Ermengarde, the daughter of Geoffrey Grisgonelle, Count of Anjou. By his first wife, he had a son named Geoffrey*. By his second wife, he had a daughter named Judith, who married Richard II, Duke of Normandy.
~Fenwick Allied Ancestry, p. 49
*Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 214:21, 160says Geoffrey's mother was also Ermengarde de Anjou
• Web Reference: Richard I of Nomandy by Steward Baldwin.
• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Conan I "le Tort" duc de Bretagne
"The Chronicle of Nantes names "Conano filio Judicael Berengarii Redonensi comite" when recording that he held a large part of Brittany from Thibaut [II] Comte de Blois and fought with Hoël Comte de Nantes [Chronique de Nantes XXXIX, p. 112]. His parentage is confirmed by the Chronico Sancti Michaelis which records the death of his grandson "Gaufridus Dux Britannić filius Conani filii Juhelli Berengarii" in 1008 [Chronico Sancti Michaelis in periculo maris, RHGF, Tome X, p. 175]."
Conan married the daughter of Geoffroy I "Grisegonelle" Comte d'Anjou & his first wife Adela de Meaux. [Rodulfi Glabri, Historiarum II.4, p. 59]
Conan married Ermangarde de d’Anjou, daughter of Geoffrey comté d’Anjou and Adélaide de Vermandois, in 973 in Rennes, Bretagne 160,528.,851 (Ermangarde de d’Anjou was born about 952 in Anjou and died in Anjou.)
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