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This is a list of monarchs of the Duchy of Brittany. In different epochs the sovereigns of Brittany were kings, princes, and dukes. The Breton ruler was sometimes elected, sometimes attained the position by conquest or intrigue, or by hereditary right. Hereditary dukes were sometimes a female ruler, carrying the title duchesse of Brittany.
Invoking the hereditary rights of his wife Marie de Luxembourg, he endeavoured to make himself independent in that province from 1589 onward, and organized a government at Nantes, proclaiming their young son Philippe Louis de Lorraine-Mercœur "prince and duke of Brittany". (Infanta Isabella was the eldest daughter of the eldest sister of Henry ...
Brittany is no longer a duchy and the title is currently not being used by the defunct Royal Family of France, so the position of Duchess of Brittany is vacant. Little is known about the duchesses whose husbands reigned prior to the year 900 besides their names.
Arthur was born in 1187, the son of Duchess Constance and Duke Geoffrey II of Brittany, who died before Arthur was born.As an infant, Arthur was thought by some to be second in line to the succession of his paternal grandfather King Henry II of England, after his uncle Richard.
The House of Rohan (Breton: Roc'han) is a Breton family of viscounts, later dukes and princes in the French nobility, coming from the locality of Rohan in Brittany.Their line descends from the viscounts of Porhoët and is said to trace back to the legendary Conan Meriadoc.
Alan II, Duke of Brittany; Alan IV, Duke of Brittany; Alan I, King of Brittany; Alan III, Duke of Brittany; Alan, Count of Nantes (988–990) Alix, Duchess of Brittany; Arthur I, Duke of Brittany; Arthur II, Duke of Brittany
Brittany had a series of independent or semi-independent monarchs from its legendary foundation in the 4th century to its full annexation by the Kingdom of France in 1547. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
This category is for 9th-century monarchs of Brittany. Before 938, the monarchs were variously styled kings, princes, and dukes. Before 938, the monarchs were variously styled kings, princes, and dukes.