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Ernulf of Brittany

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  • Name Ernulf of Brittany 
    Gender Male 
    Person ID I7120  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Eudon of Brittany,   d. 7 Jan 1079 
    Family ID F3168  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “EUDON OF BRITTANY, Count (or Duke) of Brittany, 2nd son. He married ORGUEN ___. They had eight sons, Geoffrey Boterel [I] [Count of Brittany], Alan the Red [Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond], Guillaume, Robert, Richard, Alan the Black [Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond], Brian [Count of Brittany], and Stephen or (Étienne) [Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond). By an unknown mistress (or mistresses), he also had four illegitimate sons, Bodin, Bardulf, Ribald, and Ernulf. During Their mother's lifetime, he and his older brother, Alan, seem to have been joint rulers of Brittany, but on her death in 1034, dissension broke out between them. Peace was restored by a settlement under which Eudon received a territory corresponding roughly to the dioceses of Dol, St. Malo, St. Brieuc, and Tréguier. After the death of Alan in 1140, Eudon seized the government of Brittany to the exclusion of Alan's son, Conan, who recovered it in 1057. His wife, Orguen, was living in 1056-60 (date of charter). EUDON OF BRITTANY died 7 Jan. 1079, and is said to have been buried in the Cathedral of St. Brieuc.
      Morice Histoire Ecclésiastique et Civil de Bretagne 1 (1750): xiii-xv (Counts of Cornouaille ped.) (author identifies Orguen or Agnes, wife of Eudon, Count of Penthièvre, as daughter of Benedic, Count of Cornouaille), xvii-xviii (Counts of Penthièvre ped). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1874): 557 (Ex Chronico Britannico: ("MLXXIX [A.D. 10791. Obiit Eudo Dux Brittaniae."). Broussillon Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Aubin d'Angers 2 (1903): 171-174. C.P. 10 (1945): 780 (chart), 779, 781 (sub Richmond). Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne (1638): 155 (author identifies "Ouuen," wife of Eudon of Brittany, as daughter of Allain Caignart, Count of Comouaille). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 75. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.11, XII.12-XII.16d.”