Most historians of

Brittany Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, Historical region, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known ...

are French historians, apart from Michael Jones. Many modern historians have sought to reintrepret the history of an eternally existent "Breton nation" to appeal to Breton nationalism.

Notable historians

Bertrand d'Argentré Bertrand d'Argentré (or Argentraeus) (19 May 1519 in Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine – 13 February 1590) was a Breton jurist and historian. Argentraeus was born the son of Pierre d'Argentré, seneschal of Rennes, and the nephew of historian Pierre L ...

Pierre Daru Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno, Comte de Daru (12 January 1767 – 5 September 1829) was a French soldier, statesman, historian, and poet. Early career Born in Montpellier, he was educated at the Oratorian-maintained military school of Tou ...

* Michel Denis *

Léon Fleuriot Léon Fleuriot (5 April 1923 – 15 March 1987) was a French linguist and Celtic studies, Celtic scholar, specializing in Celtic languages and the history of Gallo-Roman and Early Medieval Brittany. Biography Born in Morlaix, Brittany, in a ...

* Gildas * Kristian Hamon * Michael Jones * Arthur de La Borderie *

Pierre Le Baud Pierre Le Baud or Lebaud ( – 29 September 1505) was a French clergyman and historian known for his writings on the history of Brittany. Life Lebaud was born around 1450, probably in Saint-Ouën-des-Toits, Maine, on the borders of Brittany. His ...

Gwennole Le Menn Gwennole Le Menn (1938–2009) was a Breton writer, editor and lexicographer. He edited various Old and Middle Breton Breton (, ; or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family spoken in Brittany, part of mo ...

Dom Lobineau Guy Alexis Lobineau (1666–1727), better known as Dom Lobineau, was a Breton historian and Benedictine monk. He is best known for his history of Brittany, ''Histoire de Bretagne'' (1707). He also expanded and completed Michel Félibien's five-volum ...

Nennius Nennius – or Nemnius or Nemnivus – was a Welsh monk of the 9th century. He has traditionally been attributed with the authorship of the ''Historia Brittonum'', based on the prologue affixed to that work. This attribution is widely considered ...

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