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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.
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.
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.
After Henry II, the title Duke of Brittany was not used for over 200 years. The title Duke of Brittany reappeared when a great-grandson of Louis XIV was named Louis, Duke of Brittany; He was the last holder of the title prior to the French Revolution and did not live to inherit the French throne. At his death the title in essence became defunct.
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.
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
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Hoël II, Duke of Brittany, technically Duke Consort and then Regent for his son Alan IV; also known as Hoël V, Count of Cornouaille; Alan IV, Duke of Brittany, son-in-law of William the Conqueror, a crusader, an important ally of Henry I of England, and a grandson of Alan III; frequently mistaken by writers for his close relative Alan Rufus