Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Situated to the north east of Brittany, the earliest princes are mentioned in several Lives of the Saints. The three Armorican principalities were all subservient to the King of Brittany. Until the reign of Jonas, the rulers of Domnonia were titled princes. After that, they supply the Kings of the Bretons, and Domnonia itself was elevated as a ...
Francis III, Duke of Brittany. Claude married the future King of France, Francis I. By this marriage, and through the succession to the French crown, the King of France became Duke of Brittany jure uxoris once more. Claude's death in 1524 separated the Duchy from the crown again, and (it would transpire) for the final time.
Duchy of Brittany. Unlike other powerful statelets in France, Brittany was neither part of the Holy Roman Empire nor of France. It had a Celtic language. Title Coat of Arms 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Duke of Brittany Guy of Thouars (1199-1201, 1203-1213, Jure uxoris) Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (1196-1203, co-ruler)
Another, apocryphal motto, modelled on that of the House of Coucy, is often attributed to the Rohans: Duc je ne daigne, Roi je ne puis, Prince de Bretaigne, de Rohan je suis (Duke I will not, King I cannot, Prince of Brittany, of Rohan I am) or more often: Roi ne puis, duc ne daigne, Rohan suis (King I cannot, Duke I will not, Rohan I am). [103]
Warrior king holding a book, crown at his feet, sometimes with the Breton shield of arms Judicael or Judicaël ( c. 590 – 16 December 647 or 652) ( Welsh : Ithel ), [ 1 ] also spelled Judhael (with many other variants), [ 2 ] was the King of Domnonée , part of Brittany , in the mid-7th century and later revered as a Roman Catholic saint.
The toponym Cornouaille was established in the early Middle Ages in the southwest of the Breton peninsula. [3] Prior to this, following the withdrawal of Rome from Britain, other British migrants from what is now modern Devon had established the region of Domnonea (in Breton) or Domnonée (in French) in the north of the peninsula, taken from the Latin Dumnonia.
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.