Drogo was the count of Vannes and

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and

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from 952, when he succeeded his father, Alan Wrybeard, until his death in 958. Drogo was a minor throughout his reign, and so he was under a Regency. Drogo's Regents were his uncle the

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, Theobald I (who entrusted the administration of the

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to Wicohen, Archbishop of Dol, and the

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, Juhel Berengar) and his stepfather the Count of Anjou, Fulk II, who married the Wrybeard's widow, Adelaide of Blois. The ''

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'' suggests that Drogo was murdered on the orders of Fulk II, Count of Anjou.La

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