Judith of Nantes (died 27 February 1063) was titular Countess of Nantes from 1051 to her death in 1063.

Life

Judith was the daughter of Judicaël of Nantes and the sister of Budic of Nantes. She married

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 ...

, Count of

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, around 1026. After the death of Judith's nephew Matthew I of Nantes, the only son of Budic of Nantes, Judith's husband Alain Canhiart managed to seize the County of Nantes in the name of their son Hoël, in spite of Duke Conan II's claims. In 1054, Conan vainly tried to seize

Nantes Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...

and had to accept defeat. Hoël ruled the County of Nantes in his mother's name from this date. He first concluded his reconciliation with Conan II by marrying his sister Hawise before 1058. In 1059, he imposed his younger brother Guerech as

Bishop of Nantes The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nantes ( la, Dioecesis Nannetensis; french: Diocèse de Nantes; br, Eskopti Naoned) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Nantes, France. The diocese consists of the department of Loire- ...

to replace Airard, a reformative cleric and Abbot of

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, who had been chased by the inhabitants of Nantes as early as 1051. Judith died on 27 February 1063.

Issue

Judith married

, Count of Cornouaille, in 1026. They had: * Hoël,

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 ...

, and

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''jure uxoris'' * Guerech (Quiriac) (1030 - 1078), elected Bishop of Nantes in 1059, consecrated 7 January 1061 * Budic, died 1091 * Hodiern, Abbess of Locmaria de Quimper * Benoît, Abbot of the Abbey of Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé in 1066, elected Bishop of Nantes in 1079, consecrated in 1081, retired in 1114 and murdered in 1115 * Orguen (Agnes), wife of Odo I of Penthièvre. * Daughter, married as her 2nd husband Norman Seigneur de Montrebel, recorded in The "Historia sancti Florentii Salmurensis" as a sister of Hoël.Historia sancti Florentii Salmurensis, Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou, p. 299.

References

Sources

* André Chédeville and Noël-Yves Tonnerre ''La Bretagne féodale XIe-XIIIe siècle''. Ouest-France Université Rennes (1987). *{{cite book , first=Jean , last=Dunbabin , title=France in the Making, 843-1180 , publisher=Oxford University Press , year=1985 Counts of Nantes 1063 deaths 11th-century women rulers