Alain Cagniart de Cornouaille
(-1058)
Hoël of Cornouaille
(Bef 1066-1084)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Hawisa of Brittany

Hoël of Cornouaille 1 2 3

  • Born: Bef 1066
  • Marriage: Hawisa of Brittany
  • Died: 1084

  General Notes:

Hoel II of Cornwall (died 1084) was count of Cornouaille (from 1058 as Hoel V) and duke of Brittany from 1066 to his death. He inherited Brittany from duke Conan II, brother of his wife, Havise of Brittany. Hoel started the Cornwall dynasty of Brittany, which would rule the duchy until 1156.

  Noted events in his life were:

• He was a Count of Cornwall.

• Acceded: Duke of Brittany, 1066.


Hoël married Hawisa of Brittany, daughter of Alan III of Bretaign and Bertha of Chartres. (Hawisa of Brittany died in 1072.)


Sources


1 Brian C. Tompsett, Directory of Royal Genealogical (Datahttp://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html
Brian Tompsett
Department of Computer Science
University of Hull
Hull, UK, HU6 7RX
B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk).

2 Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/).

3 Darryl Lundy, thePeerage.com (http://www.thepeerage.com/).

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