Alain IV "Fergent" Duc de Bretagne

   Another name for Alain was Alain "the Younger" of Brittany.

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 119:24-25, Ermengarde of Anjou, daughter of Fulk IV, count of Anjou and his wife Hildegarde de Baugency, daughter of Lancelin married Alan IV, Duke of Brittany was the son of Hoel, Duke of Brittany, and his wife Hawise, daughter of Alan III, Duke of Brittany and his wife Bertha, daughter of Eudes, count of Blois. Alan III was the grandson of Richard I Duke of Normandy. The son of Ermengarde and Alan IV was Conan III, who married Maud, the natural daughter of Henry I, king of England. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ⁷⁸²
There were three lords of Bretagne who followed Duke William into England, all with the name Alan and the tile of Count. Count Alan, or Alan Gergaunt was the son of Houel V. Duke of Bretagne, and the Conqueror granted the lands of Morcar Earl of Northumberlnad and gave his daughter Contrance in marriage. His possessions were in Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Notthinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.

~An Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk, pg. 10

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Alain de Cornouaille duc de Bretagne

"The Chronicon Briocensi names "Alanum, Mathiam et Benedictum" as the three children of "Hoellus…ex Hadevisa uxore sua" [Ex Chronico Briocensi, RHGF, Tome XII, p. 566] Orderic Vitalis records that King William I arranged the marriage of "Constantiam filiam suam" and "Alanno Ferganno" at Caen and in a later passage that the couple were married at Bayeux [Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. II, Liber IV, XVII, p. 291, and Orderic Vitalis (Chibnall), Vol. III, Book V, p. 11]." Alain married a second time to Ermengard d'Anju, divorced wife of Guilluame IX duc de Aquitaine and daughter of Foulques IV "le Recin" comté d'Anjou and his first wife Hildegarde de Baugency. "The Chronicon Britannico Altero records the death in 1119 of "Alanus Fergent pater Conani" [Ex Chronico Britannico Altero, RHGF, Tome XII, p. 559]."

Alain married Ermengarde de d’Anjou, daughter of Foulques IV "le Réchin" comté d’Anjou and Hildegarde de Baugency ¹⁶⁰.^,782 (Ermengarde de d’Anjou was born about 1068,¹⁸¹ died on 1 Jun 1146 in Jerusalem, Palestine ¹⁸¹ and was buried in Redon, Bretagne, France.)