Battle of Brissarthe

Prehistory

866 the Breton prince Salomon allied (reigned 857-874 ) with the Dane Hasteinn ( Hasting ) for a campaign against Anjou, Maine and Touraine. The town of Le Mans was looted.

Robert the Brave, under whose command were the regions concerned, had just collected the Frankish forces, including the Earl Ranulf I of Poitou and Gauzfried and Hervé of Maine, as the Bretons and Scandinavians with their prey went into retreat.

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In 867 Charles the Bald took negotiations with Salomon, recognized him as king of the Bretons and kicked him in the county from Cotentin, which implies the simultaneous assignment of Avranchin between this county and Brittany.

Hasteinn devastated a few years yet the Loire Valley: Bourges 867, 868 Orléans, Angers 872 - Charles the Bald and had to seek support for the Breton and Salomon.

Also for the emerging family of Robertiner, the descendants of Robert the Brave, the battle was momentous. Roberts underage sons who later West Frankish kings Odo and Robert I, the guardianship of the Guelph Hugo Abbas were subordinated, who was a stepson of Robert the Brave, after he had married 864 Hugo's mother Adelaide of Tours, which the Count Konrad von Paris widow and Auxerre. Hugo earned their worship, the family of the Guelph zugutekam later - and the Capetians the name Hugo earned the Robert I. his son Hugo was the Great and this his son Hugh Capet.

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  • Regino of Prüm, Chronicon
  • Annals of Saint- Bertin and Saint- Vaast
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