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The kingdom fell into a period of turmoil caused by Norse invasions and a succession dispute between Salomon's murderers: Gurvand and Pascweten. Pascweten's brother, Alan, called the Great, was the third and last to be recognized as King of Brittany. [1] After his death, Brittany fell under Norse occupation.
Brittany (/ ˈ b r ɪ t ən i / BRIT-ən-ee; French: Bretagne, pronounced ⓘ; Breton: Breizh, pronounced [bʁɛjs, bʁɛx]; [1] [dubious – discuss] Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn, pronounced [bəʁtaɛɲ]) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica in Roman Gaul.
874–877), ruling Brittany (northern part) with Pasquitan; Judicael (r. 877–888), successor of Gurvand, ruled Brittany (north) with Alan the Great (south) Alan the Great (reigned from 877 to 888 with Judicaël, alone as a duke, then as a king up to 907) Gourmaëlon, Count of Cornouaille (reigned from 907 as a guardian of the kingdom)
The army of the Kingdom of France, with the help of 5,000 mercenaries from Switzerland and Italy, defeated the Breton army in 1488, and the last Duke of independent Brittany, Francis II, was forced to submit to a treaty giving the King of France the right to determine the marriage of the Duke's daughter, a 12-year-old girl, the heir to the Duchy.
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.
Initially divided into several small petty kingdoms, Brittany as a united political entity emerged in the 9th century as the Kingdom of Brittany. In the early 10th century the kingdom was devastated by Norse raids and occupation and from the mid-10th century became a vassal state of France as the Duchy of Brittany.
In 1337 Joan the Lame, Duchess of Brittany, brought Penthièvre to her husband, Charles de Châtillon, Count of Blois. [1] Joan was the daughter of Guy de Penthièvre, the younger full brother of John III. When John III died a dispute emerged regarding the inheritance of the Duchy of Brittany.
Anne's actions underscored that the Duke of Brittany's line of succession was governed by the Celtic nation's peculiar form of Semi-Salic Law rather than the strict Salic Law governing the Kingdom of France. Her actions also demonstrated that the Duke of Brittany and the King of France, at least at this time, remained distinct and separable titles.