Anjou

Ermengarde of Anjou

Father: Geoffrey Grisegonelle

Married:  Conan I in 960

Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne vol 1 p63 (Pierre-Hyacinthe Morice, 1750)
AN. 970 … Il y avoit dix ans, que Conan Comte de Rennes avoit épousé Hermengarde, fille de Geoffroi. Cette alliance qui devoit naturellement les unir, n’avoit pas empêché que Conan ne fit revivre les droits de ſes ancêtres ſur cette partie de l’Anjou, qui eſt entre le Maine & les frontiéres de la Bretagne.
This roughly translates as:
AN. 970 … Ten years ago, Conan, Count of Rennes, had married Hermengarde, daughter of Geoffroi. This alliance, which was naturally to unite them, had not prevented Conan from reviving the rights of his ancestors over this part of Anjou, which is between Maine and the borders of Brittany.

Children:
Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne vol 1 p65 (Pierre-Hyacinthe Morice, 1750)
  Conan laiſſa pluſieurs enfans légitimes & quelques bâtards; les premiers ſont Geoffroi qui lui ſuccéda; Juhael Comte de Porhoet, ſuivant du Faz, Judicael Evêque de Vannes, Catuallon Abbé de Redon, Alain, Urvodius, deux autres tués à Angers , & Judith femme de Richard II. Duc de Normandie.
This roughly translates as:
  Conan left several legitimate children and some bastards; the first are Geoffrey who succeeded him; Juhael Count of Porhoet, follower of Faz, Judicael Bishop of Vannes, Catuallon Abbot of Redon, Alain, Urvodius, two others killed at Angers, and Judith wife of Richard II, Duke of Normandy.

Notes:
Glabri Rodulphi Historiarum liber II in Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France vol 10 p15 (1874)
CAP. III. De Conano Duce Brittonum, et Fulcone Andegavorum.
… Horum scilicet Brittonum aliquandò Princeps extitit quidam (d) Conanus nomine, qui etiam accepta in matrimonio (e) Fulconis Andegavorum Comitis sorore
  (d) Conanus Redonensis Comes, mortuo Alano Guereci filio, solus regnavit anno 990.
  (e) Fulco Nerra dictus patri suo Goffredo successit an. 987, obiit an. 1040.
This roughly translates as:
CHAPTER III. Of Conan, Duke of the Britons, and Fulk of Anjou.
… Of these Britons, a certain (d) Conan by name was for some time a prince, who also took in marriage (e) the sister of Fulk, count of Anjou
(d) Conan, Count of Redon, reigned alone in the year 990, after the death of Alan, son of Guerec.
(e) Fulk, called Nerra, succeeded his father Godfrey in the year 987, and died in the year 1040.

The Conqueror and his companions vol 1 p80 (James Robinson Planché, 1874)
  Judith was the only child of Conan le Tort, Count of Rennes, by his second wife Ermengarde, daughter of Geoffrey Grisegonelle, married according to the “Chroniques de Mont St. Michel” in 970. Conan was slain at the battle of Conquereux in 992.

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