Alan I, King of Brittany

Alain I the Great ( Breton Alan Veur, French: Alain le Grand, † 907) was a prince of the Bretons in the late 9th and early 10th century.

He was the brother of Count Pascweten of Vannes, who was expelled 876 of the Normans from Vannes. Alain took over the reign and continued the feud against the Count of Rennes Judicaël for supremacy on the Brittany continued, which had already fought his brother with his father since the assassination of King Solomon in the year 874. From the year 888, the Brittany, however, the threat of a large Norman army was facing, which had previously plundered the country around Paris, and had been moved from Emperor Charles the Fat by means of a contractual agreement to withdraw. These Normans landed now but on the coast of the Cotentin and captured Saint- Lô, from which undertook raids into the Breton country. Judicaël fell in battle against them in battle, probably 888/889 at Questembert, which Alain fell to the autocracy of the Bretons. In the year 890 the Bretons finally won a decisive victory against the Normans in battle by placing them in a river, probably the Blavet, pushed the enemy down and did it.

With this victory, the threat from the Normans for Brittany subsided for the time being, what Alain enabled the establishment of a stable rule until his death in 907. He was succeeded by the Earl of Cornwall, Gourmaëlon, as the leader of the Bretons after, although their internal organization disintegrated by recent invasions of the Normans.