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	Royal Genealogies Part 6
		NOTES: Francis, Duke of Teck was a morganatic scion of the Royal House of Wurttemberg.
		of Francis Frederick Anthony, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf.
		The Grand Duke Cyril was an officer in the Russian Imperial Navy and died while in exile.
	ftp.cac.psu.edu /~saw/royal/r06.html (1214 words)

	Duke of Brittany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Angevin Empire in Brittany came to an end in 1203, after King John of England murdered his nephew, Arthur, the son of Geoffrey and Constance.
		The marriage of the infant Alice to Capetian cadet Peter of Dreux in 1213, began the new House of Dreux.
		Conan IV, Duke of Brittany, "The Younger", son of Bertha and Alan of Richmond.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Duke_of_Brittany (568 words)

	Nominoe, Duke of Brittany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nominoe (died March 7 851), was count of Vannes and the first duke of Brittany, from 826 to his death.
		Apparently the relations between the Duke and Charles were not as amicable, because Nominoe refused to swear alliance to the new king and rebelled, declaring Brittany an independent state.
		After duke Alan II, the title of king has been abandoned and the rulers took the title of dukes of Brittany.
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Nominoe,_Duke_of_Brittany (252 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Apparently the relations between the Duke and Charles were not as amicable, because Nominoe refused to swear allegiance to the new king and rebelled, declaring Brittany an independent state.
		In 846, Charles was forced to recognise the independence of Brittany and Nominoe as its king.
		After duke Alan II, the title of king was abandoned and the rulers took the title of dukes of Brittany.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Nominoe,_Duke_of_Brittany (222 words)

	Duke of Brittany - Encyclopedia, History and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brittany was a region with strong traditions of independence, including a language and culture all its own.
		Prior to the 10th century, Brittany was severly affected by Viking attacks and ducal athority was weak.
		The Angevin regime in Brittany came to an end in 1203, after John I, King of England murdered his nephew, Arthur, the son of Geoffrey and Constance.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Duchy_of_Brittany (448 words)

	Breton War of Succession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the middle of the 14th century, Brittany was ruled by the House of Dreux.
		Duke Arthur II of Dreux married twice, first to Mary of Limoges (1260-1291), then to Yolande of Dreux, countess of Montfort (1263-1322) and widow of king Alexander III of Scotland.
		Surprisingly the new duke declares himself as a vassal, not to the English king that helped him, but to king Charles V of France.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/breton_war_of_succession (542 words)

	John IV, Duke of Brittany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was son of Duke Arthur II and Yolande de Dreux, countess of Montfort, his second wife.
		When his half-brother, duke John III, died with no male heirs in 1341, John decided to fight the rights of his niece Joanna of Dreux and her husband Charles of Blois to the duchy of Brittany.
		John IV died without accomplishing his objective of becoming sole ruler of Brittany, but his wife Joanna of Flanders continued the fight in the name of their son John V who eventually won the Succession War.
	www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/John_IV,_Duke_of_Brittany (240 words)

	Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: Thomas Christian Donnelly & Sharlotte Neely DONNELLY FAMILY
		The crest of the Cone family of Scotland.
		The family crest of the Heffernans of Ireland.
		The crest of the McClelland/McLenon family of Scotland.
	www.familytreemaker.com /users/d/o/n/Sharlotte--N-Donnelly (4106 words)

	Duke of Brittany at AllExperts
		The incorporation of Brittany into the Carolingian empire ensured that the political and social institutions were similar to those prevailing elsewhere in western Francia.
		In 1488, at the death of the last male duke Francis II, the head of the Penthievre family was Jean de Brosse (died 1502), grandson of Nicole de Blois the aforementioned, and he asserted their claimto the duchy, but Francis' daughter Anne however succeeded.
		Duchess Anne of Brittany was first attempted to get married to Habsburgs, in order to avoid French central government's yoke, but she found herself instead married in turn to two kings of France.
	en.allexperts.com /e/d/du/duke_of_brittany.htm (1605 words)

	Eudes, Count of Penthievre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eudes of Rennes (999 - 1079), count of Penthievre, was the youngest son of Duke Geoffrey I of Brittany.
		Following the death of his brother Duke Alan III, Eudes ruled as regent of Brittany in the name of his nephew Conan II, between 1040 and 1062.
		His descendents became the junior branch of the Breton ducal family, that assumed control of the duchy in 1156 under Conan IV of Brittany.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eudes_of_Brittany (131 words)

	Saloman, Duke of Brittany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saloman (died 874), was king of Brittany, from 857 to his death.
		Saloman became ruler of Brittany after the murder of his cousin, Duke Erispoe.
		In 863, Saloman signed the treaty of Entrammes with Charles I of France, where Anjou was recognised as a part of Brittany.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saloman,_Duke_of_Brittany (126 words)

	Articles - Nominoe, Duke of Brittany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nominoe (died March 7, 851), was count of Vannes and the first king of Brittany, from 846 to his death.
		Apparently the relations between the Duke and Charles were not as amicable, because Nominoe refused to swear allegiance to the new king and rebelled, declaring Brittany an independent state.
		After duke Alan II, the title of king was abandoned and the rulers took the title of dukes of Brittany.
	www.worldhammock.com /articles/Nominoe,_Duke_of_Brittany (204 words)

	Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany - Encyclopedia, History and Biography
		Geoffrey Plantagenet (September 23 1158 — August 19 1186) was Duke of Brittany between 1181 and 1186, through his marriage with the heiress Constance.
		After a relative uneventful period as Duke, Geoffrey died suddenly in Paris, stamped to death by his horse, after a fall during a tournament.
		Geoffrey's son Arthur of Brittany, fought his uncle John for the throne and was subsequently murdered.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Geoffrey,_Duke_of_Brittany (276 words)

	Guy, Duke of Brittany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Guy of Thouars (died April 13, 1213) was Duke of Brittany between 1203 and 1206, succeeding his stepson Arthur I.
		He was the second husband of duchess Constance and styled himself Duke of Brittany and Count of Richmond in right of his wife.
		Eventually he gave Brittany to his cousin Peter of Dreux, married to Alix of Thouars, Guy and Constance's daughter.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guy_of_Thouars (163 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Salomon (died 874), was king of Brittany, from 857 to his death.
		Salomon, himself son of Rivallo III, Earl of Poher, became ruler of Brittany after the murder of his cousin, Duke Erispoe.
		His son was called Rivallo IV of Brittany, Earl of Poher, and had issue.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Saint_Salomon (157 words)

	Alix of Thouars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alix of Thouars (1201 - October 21 1221) was the nominal Duchess of Brittany between 1206 to her death.
		She was the daughter of Constance, Duchess of Brittany and Guy of Thouars.
		In 1206, king Philip II of France withdrew Brittany from her father and became himself the regent of the duchy in Alix’s name.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/alix_of_thouars (171 words)

	List of family trees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is an index of family trees available.
		It includes both noble, politically important and royal families as well as fictional families and thematic diagrams.
		Family tree of the Greek gods (Greek mythology)
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Family_trees_of_royal_families (138 words)

	Articles - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Belonging to the family of Montfort, he was a younger son of Duke John IV and just a year before his own death succeeded his nephew Peter II as Duke.
		He was a reference for his brother Duke John V of Brittany, the head of the French army (as constable of France) at the peak of the Hundred Years War.
		However, in 1435, Arthur of Brittany was again an influential man and orchestrated the Treaty of Arras between Charles VII of France and Philip III, duke of Burgundy.
	www.zgrey.com /articles/Arthur_III_of_Brittany (413 words)

	Encyclopedia: John-V-of-Brittany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John V (in French Jean V) (1339 - November 1, 1399), known as the Conqueror, was duke of Brittany, from 1345 to his death.
		He was son of Duke John IV and Joanna of Flanders.
		The first part of his rule was tainted by the Breton War of Succession, fought against his cousin Joanna of Dreux and her husband Charles of Blois.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John_V_of_Brittany (271 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Charles, Duke of Brittany
		Charles of Blois (died September 29 1364), was duke of Brittany, from 1341 to his death.
		Charles was the son of Count Guy I of Chatillon and Blois by Margaret of Valois, a sister of king Philip VI of France.
		He was canonized as saint for his devoutness to religion, but the process was made null by Pope Gregory IX by request of Duke John V of Brittany.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Charles,_Duke_of_Brittany (424 words)

	Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournament Glossary of Terms
		Charlemagne's Tree of Shields: A device used in a pas d'armes from which the shields are hung.
		Chivalric chronicler: Primarily Froissart and Monstrelet, the 'family' of historians discusses the political history of the realms of England and France during the troubled times of the Hundred Years War, told from the perspective of the knightly classes.
		For example, a duke's first son could style himself 'earl', unless the family actually possessed other titles, in which case he would 'use' the lesser titles as his own.
	www.chronique.com /Library/Glossaries/glossary-KCT/gloss_c.htm (6657 words)

	English History
		The paramount event in England of the eleventh century was the Norman invasion led by William, Duke of Normandy.
		Many in Normandy knew that their duke expected to become the English king, and this apparent treachery by Harold was hard for William to ignore without a great loss of respect.
		Duke William decided to take a force to England in the early spring and called a meeting of the barons of Normandy.
	www.cloptonfamily.org /d_hist/note1000.html (6489 words)

	Ferniehirst Castle - Chapter III - Family History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But family tradition is firmly in favour of the Norse theory, which is supported by the presence of "Kjaers" and "Kjarrs" in the area around Stavanger (our original home) as well as Karrs near St Malo and Carrs in mid-Lancashire (the next two stages on our journey to the Borders).
		They settled in the angle of Brittany and the Cherbourg peninsula in 911, then came to England in 1066 in the retinue of de Bruys, the ancestor of the Bruces.
		The Duke of Roxburghe, heir to the Cessford Kers, is descended from the younger daughter and bears the double-barrelled surname of Innes-Ker, The first Ker to own the former lands of Kelso Abbey was Robert Ker of Cessford who was strongly attached to King James VI and was knighted by him.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/ferniehirst/3.htm (4579 words)

	Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Ancestors of James Arthur Proffitt
		The duke of Bavaria nominally owed allegiance to the king of the Franks, but in reality the Bavarian dukes had long gone their own way and obeyed no one.
		Not all counts reported to a duke; some regions a duke ruled directly, with no counts under him; some regions were ruled by Charles directly and were known as royal lands.
		The office of the papacy had become the prize to be won in the feuds and battles among noble Roman families, and these feuds had often affected the fortunes of the popes.
	familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/p/r/o/James-S-Proffitt/GENE0001-0090.html (5482 words)

	Gites Brittany - Cottages & Holiday Gites in Brittany France with swimming pools.
		The abbey is now being restored and to raise funds for this a grand ‘Son et Lumiere’ is presented around the second weekend in August when around 400 local people, horses, dogs, etc, enact the history of the abbey and the area.
		Pontivy was the seat of the Dukes of Rohan and their castle still stands and is worth visiting.
		Whether you are seeking to escape the stresses of modern-day living, enjoying a relaxing family break, or looking for a base from which to explore the many and varied delights this area has to offer, you will find all this and more at Les Hirondelles.
	www.holiday-gites.com /gites_in_brittany.asp?Gite=6 (1100 words)

	Philippe de Commynes Memoirs
		The duke had so many great schemes in his mind that he was submerged by their weight, because at this same time he wanted to persuade King Edward of England to bring over the great army which he had prepared at the duke's urgent request; he did his utmost to finish off this German enterprise.
		Arnold, duke of Guelders (1423-73), was imprisoned from 1465 to 1470 at Thielt, Guelderland.
		But the duke was perverse, and indeed God had troubled his senses and understanding, because all his life he had laboured to get the English to cross the Channel and, at the very moment when they were ready and everything arranged to their liking, both in Brittany and elsewhere, he obstinately pursued an impossible objective.
	www.r3.org /bookcase/de_commynes/decom_5.html (14316 words)

	Our Family Forest
		The practical effect of this appeal to the Holy See was the journey of Stephen III across the Alps two years later, for the purpose of anointing with the oil of kingship not only Pepin, but also his son Charles and a younger son, Carloman.
		Brittany, formerly Armorica, with a British and Gallo-Roman population; to the south of Neustria the
		Lombard dukes, Reginald of Clusium, Rotgaud of Friuli, and Hildebrand of Spoleto.
	www.family2remember.com /famtree/b36.htm (6244 words)

	Stewart
		This part of our family tree begins with Alan, the Dapifer or Steward of an estate in Brittany around the time of the Norman Conquest of England and traces the descent to Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland who married to Princess Marjory Bruce in 1315.
		Brittany was a separate Celtic country founded by Welsh, Cornish and probably Strathclyde immigrants who settled there in the early IIIrd, IVth and Vth centuries.
		Alan's family is said to have been a cadet branch to the Dukes of Brittany who were kings two centuries earlier.
	www.robertsewell.ca /stewart.html (1268 words)

	Family-crests.com - Domesday Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ancestor of Bigot family, the earls of Norfolk.
		Brittany, Count Alan of Married daughter of William I, Constance.
		Ribald Brother of Count Alan of Brittany, probably an illegitimate son of Count Eudo.
	www.family-crests.com /coat-of-arms-library/family-crest/domesday-book-2.html (2796 words)

	The Ultimate Conan III, Duke of Brittany - American History Information Guide and Reference
		Conan III of Cornwall (1070-1148) was duke of Brittany, from 1112 to his death.
		He was son of Duke Alan IV and Ermengarde of Anjou.
		By her he had two daughters: Constance and Bertha of Brittany and duke Hoel III.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Conan_III (91 words)

	Nordic and Celtic (Iberian) DNA Project - Family Project Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Family Tree DNA members from all around the globe can join who can show that they are grandchildren and great-grandchildren of European heritage.
		Merlo is derived from is Morlaix, in Brittany, a peninsula in the northwest of France.
		Formerly known as Armorica, a possession of the Roman Empire, this land consists of a plateau with a deeply indented coast and is broken by hills in the west.
	www.familytreedna.com /public/Nordic-Celtic (9715 words)

	Richard Tonsing's and Margaret Bernard's Family Trees - Person Page 230 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She was the daughter of Alan III (?) of Brittany and Bertha (?) of Blois.
		Alan III (?) of Brittany was born in 997 in Brittany, France.
		Alan III (?) of Brittany married Bertha (?) of Blois in 1018.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~okrick/p230.htm (1857 words)

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