Budic of Nantes was
Count of Nantes The counts of Nantes were originally the Frankish rulers of the Nantais under the Carolingians and eventually a capital city of the Duchy of Brittany. Their county served as a march against the Bretons of the Vannetais. Carolingian rulers would so ...
from 1005 to his death in 1038.
Life
Budic was the son of Count
Judicaël of Nantes
Judicaël of Nantes (c. 979-1004) was Count of Nantes from 992 to his death in 1004.
Life
Judicaël was the illegitimate son of Hoël I, Duke of Brittany. He was brought up by his grandmother Judith and "Viscount" Haimon or Aymon, his father's m ...
, From 1005 to 1010, he ruled under the scrutiny of
Walter II,
Bishop of Nantes
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(1005-1041) who had been appointed by the
Count of Rennes
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Geoffrey I of Brittany
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.
Budic took advantage of the Bishop's
pilgrimage
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in the
Holy Land
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around 1020 to seize the episcopal possession and destroy the prelate's castle. Back in Brittany, the Bishop asked for the Count of Renne's intervention while Budic asked for
Count Fulk III of Anjou's assistance. This led to the loss of part of the lands held by the Counts of Nantes in the south of
Loire
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, that is to say almost the whole
Mauges, in 1025. The building of
Clisson castle was the sign of the Count of Nantes' wish to stop the progression of the County of Anjou.
Around 1030, after a last conflict with
Alan III, Budic sided with the Count of Rennes. On April 5, 1030 he subscribed to a charter by Alan III in favor of
Mont Saint-Michel Abbey[Hubert Guillotel ''Actes des ducs de Bretagne (944-1148)'' Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes (2014), p 194-200.] This crisis led to a decline of the County of Nantes' authority as it was at this time that the first castles were built in the peripheral parts of the
pagus
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of Nantes:
Châteaubriant
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,
La Roche-Bernard
La Roche-Bernard (; ) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. Inhabitants of La Roche-Bernard are called in French ''Rochois'' for men and ''Rochoises'' for women.
Forming a part of ''Petites cités de carac ...
,
Machecoul
Machecoul ( br, Machikoul) is a former commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Machecoul-Saint-Même.Matthew I of Nantes Matthew I (or Matthias I, died 1050 or 1051) was the Count of Nantes from 1038 until his death. He was the eldest son of Count Budic of Nantes.Judith A. Evrard, ''Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire 1158–1203'' (Cambridge University Pr ...
* Budic
References
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Sources
* ''Chronique de Nantes'' Présentée et annotée par René Merlet: Lire ce livre avec Gallica
* André Chédeville and Noël-Yves Tonnerre ''La Bretagne féodale XIe-XIIIe siècle''. Ouest-France Université Rennes (1987).
* Hubert Guillotel ''Actes des ducs de Bretagne (944-1148)'' Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes (2014).
Counts of Nantes
1038 deaths