Broërec

Broërec or Bro Waroch ( Breton Bro-Ereg in , identified as Bro Erech in the Anglo-Saxon Historiography) was the name of a kingdom, or county, created with the Life century by the Breton ones cornouaillais at the expense of the old Gallo-Roman city of the Vénètes, and located in Armorique at the Early middle ages. Its geographical extension approaches current the department Morbihan.

Bro Waroch

In a context of délitement of the capacity in the Gallo-Roman Field attacked by the Great invasions, it is probable that this Potentat was formed by the abandonment of the Roman administration rather than by rebellion against the federate Francs, then much higher in Belgium second: Caradog Freichfras, the first of the sovereigns of the area is quoted in 490.

In 577 according to the list provided in external bonds, it was conquered by the chiefs Waroch Ier and Waroch II (grandson of the first) which left him their name: Bro-Waroch means into Breton the " country of Waroch".

Broërec

It evolved/moved in Broërec. This territory was disputed between Bretons and Frank until the beginning of IXe century and was integrated into the Marche of Brittany before its final domination by Nominoë and its successors.

Hearth

It seems that the kings or counts de Broërec had their main home with Auray, before Vannes is not conquered, following a very long Breton ground enclavement. This duality was maintained from the linguistic point of view until our days, the department of Morbihan being divided traditionally between Breton-speaking west and is gallo, even if the invasion of school French at the XXe century levelled the differences.

Posterity

The old kingdom of Broërec became county of the Carolingian Empire, quickly integrated into the ducal field of Brittany. It was the framework of an administrative and especially legal division, the baillie (equivalent to the French bailliages) which survived until the Révolution under the new denomination of Présidial, itself the mould of new the Département of Morbihan. It recut also about the évêché of Valves, which had succeeded the old Armorican city of Vénètes and to which one gives the name of Vannetais or Bro-Gwened into Breton. The names of Vannetais and Broërec were used jointly. Since the XIXe century, the limits of these divisions merged and the town of Valves cumulates the seat of each one.

Miniatures of XVe century exits of the " old stories of Romains" (BNF ms Fr 64) give for emblem to this country a sown white flag of tails of hermines on which is posed a notched Red Cross (blasonné of hermine to the endentée cross of mouths).

See too

Internal bonds

External bond

List of the kings de Broërec

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