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Conan I Bretagne - Count
Ermangarde D Anjou
"Conan I 927–June 27, 992 was the count of Rennes from 958 and duke of Br ittany
from 990 to his death. He became ruler of Brittany after a peri od of civil and political
unrest, through his father, Judicael Berengar, c ount of Rennes and great-grandson
of a duke of Brittany.TITLE: Count of RENNES/ Duke of BRITTANY, 990-992
NICK: Le Tort'

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Conan I Bretagne - Count
Ermangarde D Anjou
"Conan I of Rennes
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Conan I (927 – June 27, 992) was the count of Rennes from 958 and duke of
Brittany from 990 to his death. He became ruler of Brittany after a period of civil and
political unrest, having first succeeded his father Judicael Berengar, as count of
Rennes.
[edit] Family and children

He married Ermengarde of Anjou, daughter of Geoffrey I of Anjou and Adele of
Vermandois and had the following issue:

* Judith (982-1017), married Richard II, Duke of Normandy
* Judicael, count of Porhoet (died 1037)
* Geoffrey, the eventual heir
* Hernod
Conan died in battle against his brother-in-law Fulk Nerra, count of Anjou at the
Battle of Conquereuil and is buried in Mont Saint Michel Abbey"

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Judhael Count of RENNES
Gerberge Queen of FRANCE
"Judicael Berengar Judicael alias Berengar[1] was Count of Rennes in the mid-to-
late 10th century. There are conflicting accounts of his parentage, one popular
solution making him son and successor to a count Berenger (sometimes identified
with Berengar of Rennes, sometimes with that man's supposed maternal
grandson of the same name[2]) by a daughter of Gurvand, Duke of Brittany.
However, an 11th century collection of Anjevin genealogies shows him to be son of
Pascweten, son of Alan I, King of Brittany.
He is first documented as count in 944. He witnessed charters of Alan II, Duke of
Brittany, and on the latter's death apparently fell under the control of Wicohen,
Archbishop of Dol, later sources reporting the rescue of Judicael and his
(unnamed) wife by son Conan. He appears to have been dead by 979, when his
son was at the court of Odo I, Count of Blois"

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LOVEL
"the small village of Berkley in Somerset (in 1086 Berchelei).[1] In 1086 the
overlordship of Berkley belonged to Robert Arundel, whose main tenant was a
Robert.[1] Arundel's manors included Cary Fitzpaine (in Charlton Mackerell), near
Castle Cary. And Cary Fitzpaine seems to have been held by the tenant Robert as
well.[1] At the same time as Henry Lovel of Castle Cary first appears in Scotland,
there appear the names of Godfrey de Arundel and Robert and Walter de Berkeley.
The Kingdom of the Scots, p.331-334[]"

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Lovell:
"Asceline, Seigneur of Breherval, and Lord of Castle Cary in England, was a vassal
of William de Breteuil. Goello or Goel was the surname which Asceline usually
assumed, derived from a noble Breton barony,[86] but the designation of Lupellus,
or young Wolf, had been bestowed upon him in consequence of his savage
temper, common to the whole family. Through his son William, softened into Lovell,
the name became hereditary. 'Lovell, our dog,' was his lineal descendant. Lovells of
Castle-Cary, Lovells of Tichmarsh, Percevals, Egmonts, Beaumonts, and
Somersetshire Gurneys, the second line of Barewe Gournay (where the walls of the
old manor-house are partly standing)—all come from Asceline. By ill usage and
torture, he compelled his liege lord to grant him his daughter Isabel, with 3,000 of
Dreux currency. During three months Breteuil was kept in duresse, ironed, chained,
plagued, and starved, without yielding: till at length the livres and the lady were
extorted by an ingenious mode of torture. In the depth of winter, Asceline fastened
him to the grating at the bleak top of a tower, unclothed, save by a poor, thin shirt: he
was thus exposed to the whistling, biting, bitter winds, while water was poured
upon him abundantly and continually, till he was sheeted with ice. This anguish
Breteuil could not resist: he consented to the terms proposed, endowed Isabel in
the church-porch, and gave her away."—Sir Francis Palgrave.

The father of Asceline was Robert de Breherval, one of the eight sons of Eudo,
Count of Brittany, who held the castle and barony of Ivery, in Normandy, by the
service of three knights' fees. He came to England with the Conqueror, and fought
at Senlac; but soon after returned home and died a monk in the Abbey of Bec.
Ascelin, surnamed Gouel, and Gouel de Percheval, appears in Domesday as a
large landowner in Somerset, where he held the barony of Castle-Cary. He had
three sons: the eldest, Robert, died s. p. in 1121: William, the second, succeeded
him; and John, the youngest, was portioned in the manor of Harptree, and in
consequence took that name, but afterwards changed it to Gournay. From him
descended the Barons of Harptree Gournay.

William Gouel de Percheval had both the Norman and English estates; and
inherited, with his father's turbulent and ungovernable temper, his nick-name of
Lupellus, or Louvel, which was ever after used by his posterity. His life is one long
record of different rebellions. First, he took up arms, with his father-in-law, Waleran
of Mellent, against Henry I.; "and fighting stoutly on his part in that notable skirmish,
near the Borough of Turold, where Waleran was utterly vanquished and made
prisoner: being taken in his flight by a Peasant, gave him his Armour for liberty to
escape; and having so done, cut all his Hair according to the mode of an Esquire;
by which means he passed unknown to a Ferry upon the River of Sene, where he
gave his Shoes to the Boatman to carry him over, and so at length got bare-foot to
his own house."—Dugdale. Next, with other Somersetshire barons, he espoused
the cause of the Empress Maud, and was twice besieged in his castle of Cary: first
in 1138, when it was taken by King Stephen: and again—but on that occasion
unsuccessfully—by William de Tracy in 1153. "It is probable that from this time the
castle fell to ruin and decay; for little more is heard of it in the succeeding reigns,
and at present the spot wherein it stood is hardly known to the inhabitants of the
town; being marked only by an intrenched area of about two acres, called the
Camp, in which implements of war and bolts of iron have frequently been dug up."—
Collinson's Somerset. He left five sons: 1. Waleran, Lord of Yvery in Normandy; 2.
Ralph, and 3. Henry, who were successively Lords of Castle-Cary; 4. William,
ancestor of the Lovels of Tichmarsh; and 5. Richard, who retained the original
surname of Percheval or Perceval, and was the ancestor of the Earls of Egmont.
See Perceval.

The barony of Castle-Cary descended in regular succession to Richard, third of the
name and last of the line, who had the custody of the Dorsetshire castles of Corfe
and Purbeck, and was summoned to parliament as a baron by Edward III. in 1348:
but, as both his son and grandson died before him, left no heir save his
granddaughter Muriel, who carried his title and estate to her husband, Nicholas
Lord St. Maur.

The younger branch of the Lovels (the posterity of William) were of longer
continuance and greater account in the world. They were seated at Minster-Lovel in
Oxfordshire, and exchanged their paternal coat for that of the Bassets, with whom
they had intermarried. Tichmarsh was acquired through Maud Sydenham, a great
Northamptonshire heiress, in the time of Henry III. One of the family, Philip Lovel,
was Treasurer of England during the same reign: but was accused and brought to
trial by the barons for having taken bribes from the Jews to exempt them from
tallage, and being "put from that high trust," and heavily fined, died of grief and
vexation in 1258. His nephew John, who served in the Scottish wars, and first had
license to castellate Tichmarsh, was summoned to parliament as Lord Lovel of
Tichmarsh in 1299; and his descendant, the fifth Lord, acquired a second barony
through his wife Maud, granddaughter and heir of Robert de Holland, Lord Holland.
To these, the next but one in succession, Sir William, added a third and fourth, by
his marriage with Alice, in her own right Baroness D'Eyncourt and Baroness Grey
de Rotherfield; and both his sons followed their father's example. John, the elder,
eighth Lord Lovel, married Joane, only sister and heir of William, second Viscount
Beaumont, who brought him her brother's barony of Beaumont: and William, the
second, married Alianor, only child of Robert Lord Morley, and was summoned to
parliament as Lord Morley. (See Morlei.) John's son, Francis, in addition to the
accumulated baronies he thus inherited, received the title of Viscount Lovel on the
accession of Richard III. Though his father had been throughout a staunch
Lancastrian, rewarded for his services to Henry VI., and forced to fly for his life on
the landing of the Duke of York, the son became the bosom friend and counsellor of
the Yorkist king, and was one of the hated favourites denounced in the old distich:

"The Rat, the Cat, and Lovell our Dog,
Govern all England under the Hog."

He was appointed Constable of Wallingford, Lord Chamberlain of the Household,
and Chief Butler of England: but all these evanescent dignities passed away with
his master's brief reign; and his after fate was strange and pitiable. After the rout of
Bosworth, he fled for sanctuary to St. John's, Colchester; and thence, hunted from
place to place, he at last made his way to Flanders, and betook himself to the court
of Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, the late King's sister. She greeted him kindly,
and employed him on the expedition sent over to Ireland to uphold the counterfeit
Duke of York, Lambert Simnel; from whence he came back to England with John de
la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, and fought under him at the disastrous battle of Stoke. From
this point a certain mystery hangs over his fate. He was last seen, after the battle,
swimming his horse across the Trent; but it was said he could not gain the further
side, on account of the steepness of the banks, and that both he and his horse
were swept away by the current. There was always, however, a report in the country
that he was not drowned, but had succeeded in making good his landing, and
sought refuge in some hiding-place, where he lived for a long time, but in the end
was left to starve to death. This tradition, which is alluded to by Lord Bacon, was
curiously confirmed by a discovery made in the first years of the last century. "On the
6th of May, 1728," writes Mr. William Cowper, Clerk of the Parliament in 1737, "the
present Duke of Rutland related in my hearing, that about twenty years before, viz. in
1708, upon occasion of new laying a chimney at Minster Luvel, there was
discovered a large vault underground, in which was the entire skeleton of a man, as
having been sitting at a table, which was before him, with a book, paper, pen, &c.: in
another part of the room lay a cap, all much mouldered and decayed. Which the
family and others judged to be this Lord Lovel, whose exit has hitherto been so
uncertain." It would thus appear that he had gone straight to his own house, and
shut himself up in a hidden, chamber probably contrived for some such emergency,
trusting his secret to a confidential servant who had either forgotten or betrayed him
and there, mewed up like a rat in a hole, he had been suffered to die by inches, in
all the lingering agonies of starvation.

He had no children, and all his honours fell under attainder. One only—the barony
of Beaumont—was restored in 1840 to a descendant Of his elder sister, Joan, the
wife of Sir Brian Stapleton of Carlton in Yorkshire.

"Benham-Lovell, in Berkshire, took its name from this family; it was held by the
service of keeping a pack of dogs (canum deynectorum) at the King's expense for
the Royal use."—Lysons.

The Lovells are also found in Scotland, and had crossed the Border at an early
date, for in 1183 Henry Lovell granted some of his land at Hawick to the prior and
canons of St. Andrew's. Hawick in Roxburghshire was their ancient residence;
thence they removed to Ballumbie, in Angus, which they held till about the middle of
the sixteenth century. Thomas Lovel witnesses the foundation charter of the Maison
Dieu at Brechin in 1267. "Eva, quae fuit uxor Roberti Lovel" did homage for lands in
the counties of Aberdeen, Forfar, and Roxburgh in 1296: and, much about the same
time, "Agneys, qu fu la femme Henry Lovel," performed the same service for lands
in Roxburghshire. James Lovel is recorded as one of the Angus barons who fell at
Harlaw in 1411. Alexander, the son of Richard Lovel of Ballumbie, is said to have
married Catherine Douglas, who was in the Convent of the Black Friars at Perth,
when King James I. and "Walter Straton, the kyng's chalmer chyld," were murdered
by the Earl of Athole and his associates. This lady was maid of honour to Queen
Joanna, and it is said by an old writer that, on hearing the approach of the regicides,
and with a view of allowing the king time to escape, she "put hir arme in the hole
where the bolt suld have bene for baste, bot the upstriking of it brak hir arme."[87]—
Memorials of Angus and the Mearns. Andrew Lovell, in 1572, "was denunceit rebell
and thairfor put in ward." After this, but few traces remain of the family. Ballumbie
had passed into the possession of Sir Thomas Lyon of Aldbar. "Some of the family
became burgesses in the neighbouring town of Dundee: and the last notice of
them, as landed proprietors, occurs in 1607, when Sibylla and Mariota were served
heiresses-portioners of their father, James Lovell, in the lands and fishings of
Westferry and 'the Vastcruik, alias Kilcraig,' on the north of the Tay, which probably
goes to show that the family failed in co-heiresses."—Ibid.

Footnotes

86. ↑ Here authorities differ. "Goel, or Goule, by which name Asceline, as well as
his son, was known, is clearly Guelph, or Whelp, the wolf-cub, of which Louvel or
Lupus is the Norman-French equivalent."—A. S. Ellis.
87. ↑ "Tradition says, that Catherine Douglas, in honour of her heroic act when she
barred the door with her arm against the murderers of James I. of Scotland,
received popularly the name of 'Barlass.' This name remains to her descendants,
the Barlas family in Scotland, who have for their crest a broken arm."—Notes to The
King's Tragedy"

THE BATTLE ABBEY ROLL. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NORMAN LINEAGES.
BY THE DUCHESS OF CLEVELAND. IN THREE VOLUMES.—VOL. II
LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1889.
LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND
CHARING CROSS.
This electronic edition
was prepared by
Michael A. Linton, 2007
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