Conan I the Crooked, Duke of Bretagne^[1]

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• Name	Conan I the Crooked   [1, 2]
  Suffix	Duke of Bretagne
  Gender	Male
  Acceded	990
  _FSFTID	LZM2-83T
  _FSLINK	https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=LZM2-83T
  Death	992
  Notes	Acceded: 990 Count of Rennes. «b»http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal05626 http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps05/ps05_190.htm «/b»Conan "le Tort" took Nantes in 990; descends from a Conan known as Cynan Medriadog, Prince of Albaine and Powys, who died in 421 (m.388 Dareara, sister of St. Patrick & dau. of Calphurnius) - the legends also have Cynan leaving to found a colony in Armorica, France in 384. Legend also traces Conan's line from ancient Welsh "kings." As Count of Rennes he subdued the entire province and his son and successor, Geoffrey, was first to assume the title "Duke of Brittany." The dukes were crowned at Rennes. References: [PlantagenetA],[ES],[Theroff],[AR7],[Weis1],[RFC], [Paget1]
  Person ID	I4145	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	5 Oct 2015

  
  

  Family	Ermangarde d'Anjou,   b. Abt 952, Anjou, France d. 27 Jun 992 (Age ~ 40 years)
  Children	1. Judith of Brittany,   b. Abt 982   d. 1017 (Age ~ 35 years)   2. Godfrey (Geoffrey) of Brittany, Duke of Brittany   d. 1008
  Family ID	F1208	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

• Sources

  [S27] http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/. [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).