Alain Canhiart

Alain Canhiart , count of Cornwall of 1029 with 1058, buried with Quimperlé.

He is the son of Benoit or Benedic, died between 1008 and 1029 - count and bishop of Cornwall, since he was elected with the episcopal see of Quimper towards 990 -, and of Guigodeon, itself girl of Orscand the Large one, bishop of Vannes.

With died his father, Alain Canhiart inherits the county of Cornwall while his/her brother Orscand becomes bishop of Quimper in his turn. Alain Canhiart is the founder before 1050 of the Abbaye Holy-Cross of Quimperlé.

Towards 1026, it marries Judith, heiress of the county of Nantes, which returns to this one to dead of its nephew, the count Mathias I {{er}} of Nantes.

The couple has at least six children:

Hoël, count de Nantes, of Cornwall and Rennes, duke of Brittany;
Guérech (or Quiriac) (1030 - 1079), bishop elected of Nantes in 1059, devoted the January 7th 1061;
Budic, died in 1091;
Hodiern, abbess of Locmaria of Quimper;
Benoit, abbot of the Holy-Cross Abbey of Quimperlé in 1066, bishop elected of Nantes in 1079, devoted in 1081, withdraws in 1114 and dies in 1115;
Agnes, wife of Éon I {{er}} of Penthièvre.

See too

Sources

Joelle Quaghebeur, Cornwall of IXe century in XIIe century, Memory, capacities, nobility , University Presses Of Rennes, 2002,
the names which made the history of Brittany , Coop Breizh and cultural Institut of Brittany, 1997.

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