Ancestral Trails 2016 » BERTHA de CORNOUAILLE (1114-1163)

Personal data BERTHA de CORNOUAILLE 

• She was born in the year 1114 in Bretagne, France.
• (Relationship) : 27th Great Grandmother.
• (Ancestry) : House of Cornouaille.
• She died in the year 1163 in Rohan, Morbihan, Bretagne, France, she was 49 years old.
• A child of CONAN de BRETAGNE and MAUD FITZROY

Household of BERTHA de CORNOUAILLE

(1) She is married to ALAIN de PENTHIEVRE.

They got married in the year 1131 at Bretagne, France, she was 17 years old.

Child(ren):

1. CONAN de BRETAGNE  1132-???? 
2. Constance de PENTHIEVRE  1134-> 1184 

(2) She is married to EUDES de PORHOET.

They got married in the year 1147 at Rohan, Morbihan, Bretagne, France, she was 33 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Alix de PORHOET  1148-????
2. Geoffroi de PORHOET  1150-????
3. Adelaide de PORHOET  1152-1220

Notes about BERTHA de CORNOUAILLE

Bertha of Cornouaille (born circa 1114 - died 1156), also known as Bertha of Brittany (Breton: Berthe Breizh ), was hereditary Duchess of Brittany between 1148 until her death and Dowager Countess of Richmond. Bertha was the eldest daughter of Conan III of Brittany by Maude, the illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England. She was the last member of the Breton House of Cornouaille to reign over Brittany.

Bertha was the daughter of Duke Conan III of Brittany. She married the son of Stephen of Treguier, Alan le Noir and she lived in England with Alan until his death in 1146. Alan would eventually become Earl of Richmond. After Alan's death she returned to Brittany as Dowager Countess of Richmond and eventually married Odo, Viscount of Porhoet. Two years after her marriage to Odo, her father Duke Conan III died. On his deathbed Conan III renounced Bertha's brother Hoèl as heir, and designated Bertha as his heiress. On Conan III's death she became hereditary Duchess of Brittany.

In her first marriage, by 1138, Bertha was married to Alan le Noir Bertha and Alan had three children:
Conan IV, Duke of Brittany, b. 1138, their son and heir, as Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond.
Constance of Brittany, who married Alan III, Vicomte of Rohan.
Enougen, abbess of St. Sulpice.

Bertha married her second husband, Odo, Viscount of Porhoet in about 1148. Bertha and Odo had three children:
Geoffroy de Porhoët.
Adelaide de Porhoët. (died in 1220). Abbess of Fontevrault.
Alix de Porhoët. Mistress of Henry II, King of England.

Bertha died in 1156 and with her death the ducal throne passed to her son Conan.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha,_Duchess_of_Brittany

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