Eudes comté de Bretagne et Penthièvre
- Born: 999, Rennes, Bretagne 160
- Marriage (1): Unknown
- Marriage (2): Orguen de Cornouaïlle
- Died: 7 Jan 1079, Bretagne, Bretagne, Indre-Et-Loire, France at age 80 160
Another name for Eudes was Eudes Count of Brittany.
General Notes:
"After the death of Alain in 1040 Eudes siezed the government of Brittany to the exclusion of his nephew, Conan [i.e. Conan II, Duke of Brittany, dsp. 1066], who recovered it in 1057."
~An Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk, "Predigree of Eudo Count of Britanny," p. 12 782
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 226:23, 214:22, comté de Bretagne, comté de Penthièvre, 1034, m. Orguen, living in 1056, co-regeant of Brittany. Had a natural son, Bardolf, the ancestor of the Lords Fitz Hugh of Ravensworth. 160
Noted events in his life were:
• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Eudes de Bretagne was the son of Geoffroy I duc de Bretagne and Havise de Normandie. Eudes became the comté de Penthièvre and became the duc de Bretagne upon his brother's death. Eudes married Orguen (or Alice) de Cornouaïlle, daughter of Alain "Caignard" comté de Cornouaïlle and his wife Judith de Nantes. "Guillaume of Jumièges names "Emma...secunda Hadvis...tertia Mathildis" as the three daughters of Richard and his wife "Gunnor ex nobilissima Danorum prosapia ortam", adding that Havise married "Goiffredo Britannorum comiti" by whom she had "Alanum et Eudonem duces" [Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Duchesne, 1619), Liber IV, XVIII, p. 247]. "Comes Eudo, uxor eius Orguen et filii eorum Gausfridus, Alanus, Willelmus, Rotbertus, Ricardus…" witnessed the charter dated to (circa 1056/6) records the history of the acquisition by Angers Saint-Aubin of property "in pago Belvacensi", finally donated by "comiti Britannie Eudoni" [Angers Saint-Aubin, Tome II, DCLXXVII, p. 171]."
Eudes next married Orguen de Cornouaïlle, daughter of Alain "Caignart" Comte Cornouaïlle and Judith de Nantes.
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