Guihomar I of Léon was one of the first
Viscounts of Léon
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. He lived c. 970 - 1055.
Life
Léa Chaillou believes that he was born circa 970, the son of Alan de Léon, himself the son of a possible great-granddaughter of
Alan I, King of Brittany
Alan I (french: Alain; died 907), called the Great,F. McNair (2015), "Vikings and Bretons? The Language of Factional Politics in Late Carolingian Brittany", ''Viking and Medieval Scandinavia'' 11: 183–202. was the Count of Vannes and Duke of Bri ...
. He is cited in 1021 and in 1034 or 1040. He is said to have owned estates in the
Kemenet-Héboé in the
Bishopric of Cornouaille. This rise in power threatened
Alain Canhiart Alain Canhiart (died 1058) was the count of Cornouaille from 1020 to 1058. He was the son of Benoît de Cornouaille and the father of Hoël II, Duke of Brittany. His family name, ''Canhiart'', is understood to be derived from the old Breton Kann Ya ...
, the Count of Cornouailles, who was victorious in 1055 and gave the hamlet of Lezugar en Beuzec to the episcopal authority. Guihomar I was still alive at the time.
Issue
Guihomar is said to have had a son named Éhuarn but according to Joëlle Quaghebeur Ehuarn was actually a “Viscount from Cornouaille”, that is to say of a Viscount of Le Faou who married a woman belonging to the House of Léon.
Chaillou attributes to him two sons, Alan II (c. 995–aft. 1060) and Alfred (d. aft 1060). Alan II had three children, Guihomar, Anne/Emma who married
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Odo I of Porhoët was viscount of Rennes and Porhoët from 1074 to his death, after 1092.
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and an unnamed daughter who married Ehuarn II, Viscount of Châuteaulin. Their first-born son Harvey inherited that title, the middle son was Guihomar II and the youngest son Gradlon became the ancestor of the
Viscounts of Faou. He was undoubtedly succeeded by his supposed grandson and namesake
Guihomar II as
Viscount of Léon.
[André Chédeville & Noël-Yves Tonnerre, genealogical « Les vicomtes de Léon » p. 164.]
References
Sources
*Chaillou, Léa. ''The House of Léon: Genealogy and Origins''. Foundations: The Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, volume 11, 2019, pp. 19–48
* Patrick Kernévez, André-Yves Bourgès ''Généalogie des vicomtes de Léon (XIe, XIIe et XIIIe siècles)''. Bulletin de la Société archéologique du Finistère, t. CXXXVI, 2007, p. 157-188.
* André-Yves Bourgès, ''L’expansion territoriale des vicomtes de Léon à l’époque féodale'', dans Bulletin de la Société archéologique du Finistère, tome CXXVI, 1997
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