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Hoel Duke of Brittany, 1084

Name
Hoel Duke of /Brittany/
Surname
Brittany
Given names
Hoel Duke of
Family with parents
father
mother
himself
Family with Havoise of Brittany
himself
partner
son
Death of a maternal grandfather
Death of a father
Death of a mother
Death of a wife
Death
Unique identifier
6FFD0F7ABD5FE7408FA922E561FB406D80BC
Last change
23 January 200719:13:58
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Notes
Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (39:24) calls him Count of Cornouille andjure uxoris Duke of Brittany 1066. Also mentioned (119:24).
Per Galliou and Jones' "The Bretons", The middle decades of the 11thcentury were extremely turbulent in all western French principalities.
The minorities of WILLIAM THE CONQUERER (RIN 798) in Normandy and ConanII [ALAIN III's son/ Hoel's brother-in-law) in Brittany and the agressivepolicies of Geoffrey Martel, Count of Anjou [son of FULK NERRA (RIN1258)], followed by a succession crisis on his death, stirred lesserfigures, notably ambitious castellan lords, to assert their independenceof central authority. This was seriously weakened in Brittany, aselsewhere, by civil war, especially that betweem Conan II and his uncleand former guardian, EUDES.
WILLIAM THE CONQUERER attracted several of the Breton lords from thenortheast of the duchy into his service. In 1664 WILLIAM even campaignedin Brittany in behalf of Rivallon of Cambour and against Conan II. Conanwas killed in 1066 while campaigning against the Angevins. He left noobvious heir and a succession crisis ensued. Hoel claimed the Duchy byright of his marriage to ALAIN III's daughter and Conan's sister, HAWISE,and held it until his own death in 1084, passing it on to his son, ALAINIV FERGANT.