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,

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, and the

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, Juhel Berengar) and his stepfather the

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, Fulk II, who married the Wrybeard's widow. The ''

Chronique de Nantes ''Chronicle of Nantes'' (Latin: ''Chronicon Namnetense'', French: ''Chronique de Nantes'') is an eleventh-century Latin chronicle of history extending from 570 to about 1049 AD. The original manuscript, kept in the city of Nantes, has not survived, ...

'' suggests that Drogo was murdered on the orders of

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.La

pages 109-110

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