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Persoonlijke gegevens Alain de BRETAGNE II 

• Hij is geboren rond 900 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France.
• Titel: Duke of Brittany, Count of Vannes, Poher and Nantes
• (Ancestry) : House of Nantes.
• (Nickname) : Wrybeard, Twistedbeard (Fr. Barbetorte).
• (Alternative Name) : Alain le Renard.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 952 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France.

  Let op: Was 9 maanden voor de geboorte (??-??-958) van kind (Drogo de BRETAGNE) al overleden (??-??-952).

• Een kind van Mathuedoï le POER en Daughter de BRETAGNE

Gezin van Alain de BRETAGNE II

(1) Hij heeft/had een relatie met Adelaide de BLOIS.

Kind(eren):

1. Drogo de BRETAGNE  958-958

(2) Hij had een relatie met ??.

Kind(eren):

1. Hoel de NANTES  ± 950-981

Notities over Alain de BRETAGNE II

Alan II (died 952), nicknamed Wrybeard or Twistedbeard (often given in French: Barbetorte) and Alain le Renard ("the Fox"), was Count of Vannes, Poher, and Nantes, and Duke of Brittany from 938 to his death. He was the grandson of King Alan the Great by Alan's daughter and her husband Mathuedoi, Count of Poher. He expelled the Vikings from Brittany after an occupation that lasted from 907 to about 939.

He had to take refuge, along with his father Mathuedoi I, Count of Poher, with the English king, Edward the Elder, because the Norsemen had invaded Armorica. The Chronicle of Nantes reports: "... Among the nobles who fled for fear for the Danes, Mathuedoi, the count of Poher, put to sea with a great multitude of Bretons, and went to Athelstan, king of the English, taking with him his son, called Alan, who was afterwards surnamed "Crooked Beard". He had had this Alan by the daughter of Alan the Great, duke of the Bretons, and the same Athelstan, king of England, had lifted him from the holy font. This king had great trust in him because of this friendship and the alliance of this baptism."

Alan became ruler of Brittany at the end of a 33-year interregnum after the death of his maternal grandfather, Duke Alan the Great. He landed at Dol in 936, at the invitation of the monk Jean de Landévennec and with the aid of Edward's successor, Athelstan the Glorious. By 937 he was master of most of Brittany, having forced the Vikings back to the Loire."... The city of Nantes remained for many years deserted, devastated and overgrown with briars and thorns, until Alan Crooked Beard, grandson of Alan the Great, arose and cast out those Normans from the whole region of Brittany and from the river Loire, which was a great support for them. This Alan was brought up from infancy with Athelstan, king of the English, and was strong in body and very courageous, and did not care to kill wild boars and bears in the forest with an iron weapon, but with a wooden staff. He collected a few ships and came by the king's permission with those Bretons who were still living there, to revisit Brittany."

In 938, he was elected Brittonum dux. On 1 August 939, with the aid of Judicael (Berengar), count of Rennes, and Hugh I, count of Maine, his victory was made complete by defeating the Norse at Trans. Alan declared that date a national holiday.

Alan II was closely allied with King Louis IV of France, for both had been exiles in England at the same time at the court of Edward the Elder and Edward's son and successor Æthelstan. Alan renounced the Cotentin, Avranchin, and Mayenne and paid homage to Louis IV in 942. He was also allied to Theobald the Old, the count of Chartres.

Alan II was the grandson of Alan I, King of Brittany and the great-grandson of Ridoreth, Count of Vannes. He was the grand-nephew of Pascweten.

His wife was Adelaide of Blois, the sister of Theobald I, Count of Blois. Their son, and Alan's immediate successor, was Drogo, Duke of Brittany.

He also had at least two illegitimate sons, Hoel and Guerech, who would each succeed Drogo during the fractured rule of Brittany after Drogo's death.

He died and was buried in his capital, Nantes, in the church which he constructed to honor the Virgin Mary for his victory in liberating Nantes, initially known as la Chapelle de la Tres Sainte Mere de Dieu now known as the Basilique Notre Dame in the parish of St Therese in Nantes. He was succeeded by his son Drogo.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_II,_Duke_of_Brittany

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