The Starr Family of America

Notes
Stuart's "Royalty For Commoners" (334:36) referes to him as Count ofRennes and a leader against the Norsemen. Stuart identifies him a the sonof Paskwitan II, Count of Rennes (RIN 2198*).
Per "The Bretons" by Galliou and Jones, a 15 year remission from Vikingraiders in Brittany brutally ended in 913. In the next few years severalViking states, similiar to the one forming in Normandy, were establishedin Brittany. The county of Nantes was abandoned to the Vikings in 921 byKING ROBERT I (RIN 1208) of France. WILLIAM LONGSWORD (RIN 1311), Duke ofthe Normans, aqdvanced through the Contenin and the Avaranchin.
About 936, WILLIAM assented to the return to Brittany of Alain
Barbetote, Count of Cournaille from England - the same year that LOUIS IVD"OUTREMER (RIN 1617) returned to France from England to reestablishCarolingian rule there. An earlier attempt by Alain to regain hisinheritance in 931 had failed.
While other Breton counts were seeking refuge at the English court,Berenger of Rennes alone remained to withstand the Viking onslaught. Hewas surrounded by them. Direct contact between the rulers of Brittany andthe Kings of France gradually ceased in the course of the 10th century.No Duke of Brittany
acknowledged fealty of performed homage directly to the King of Franceuntil 1099. Following Alain Barbatorte's death in 952, leaving no clearheir, a power vacuum in the duchy was filled by the Counts of Rennes.
"Todd A. Farmerie" posted to soc.genealogy.medieval
on 22 Nov 1996 (in part):
Subject: Re: ancestry of CONAN I, Duke of Brittany
"I still follow the work of Lot and others from the turn of the century,who show Juhel/Judiceal Berenger as son of a Count Berenger, a Frank whorooted in Brittany toward the end of the 9th century, and who is perhapsidentical with the Berenger of Bayeux that Rollo ran into. I am deeplysuspicious of any attempt to harmonize all of the breton lines into asingle royal family, suspecting instead that from the time of Nominoe,there were several entities (i.e. Vannes, Nantes, etc.) of which theking/count was simply the most powerful at the time."
BERENGER, COUNT OF BAYEUX (RIN 1314), father of ROLLO's wife, POPPA,could, if Farmerie is correct, be his father.