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From: Stewart Baldwin < >
Subject: Re: A Descent from Ridoredh
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 19:10:36 GMT
Jared Olar < > wrote:
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>Well said, Todd. As I am the one who started this thread, I am
>particularly interested the source for that lineage of the Counts of
>Cornouaille. It's fascinating stuff, but I really need a source citation.
>Jared Olar
When Anselme's "Histoire genealogique de la maison royale de France,
et des grands officiers de la couronne" was written in 1674, and the
revised versions were done in the next century, the authors were
apparently just as concerned about the lack of good references
regarding the early Breton lines, and their main account starts with
Conan I, with only a brief discussion of the earlier generations. The
main account of the counts of Cornouaille statrs with Alain Caignart,
although there are a few sentences taking the line back to his
grandfather, which is outlined below.
The "Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise", vol. 1, in the article on
Alain Caignart, gives a good bibliography, some of which appear to be
primary sources. For the interest of those who want to follow this
problem to the sources (and have the library access to support this
desire), I have listed DBF's sources below.
(The usual apologies/excuses for omitting the accents)
The counts of Cornouaille (who were apparently in some cases also
bishops of Cornouaille - I guess the prohibition against married
clergy was not enforced in Brittany around this time.)
[Information from Anselme in brackets, otherwise from DBF]
[Budic, count of Cornouaille]
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Benoit*, count and bishop of Cornouaille, [d. ca. 1026]
[md. Guinodeon]
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Alain "Caignart", d. 1058 Orscand
count of Cornouaille, ca. 1020-, bishop of Cornouaille
and count of Nantes, 1054- 1022-
(after the death of Judith's
nephew Mathias, count of Nantes)
md. Judith, dau. of Judicael,
count of Nantes
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Hoel, duke of Brittany [Budic Quiriac Benoit* [Agnes md. [dau]
(by marriage) d. 1098] both bishops of Eudon (uncle
Cornouaille of duke Conan II
of Brittany]
*Note: "Benoit" (with a circumflex over the "i") is the modern French
form of the name "Benedict" (the form which appears in Anselme).
The bibliography given by DBF is as follows:
1. "Histoire de Bretagne", by A. de la Borderie, vol. iii (1899).
2. "Chartes inedites de Locmaria de Quimper", in "Bulletin de la
Societe archeologique du Finistere", vol. xxiv (1897), pp. 96-113.
3. "Chronique de Nantes", ed. Meriet (1896).
4. "Cartulaire de ... [sic] Quimperle", 2nd ed., Maitre et de Berthou
(1902).
5. "Melanges historiques", by Ch. de Calan (1908), pp. 27, 30, 99.
6. "Cartulaire de l'eglise de Quimper", ed. Peyron (1909).
7. "Melanges d'histoire de Cornouaille", by R. Latouche (1911).
Stewart Baldwin
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