Poher

Poher a landscape in the west of Brittany, and to the east of the department of Finistère, whose name is today ( founded in 1996 ) is in the Local Government Association, " Communauté de Communes du Poher " finds. It comprises the municipalities of Carhaix- Plouguer, Cleden- Poher, Kergloff, Motreff, Plounévézel, Poullaouen and Saint- Hernin on the eastern edge of Finistère and Le Moustoir to the west of the department of Côtes- d'Armor.

In the early Middle Ages Poher was a county with the capital Vorgium, today Carhaix- Plouguer, and the sphere of a powerful noble family, later one of the provinces of the ancien régime in Brittany.

Counts of Poher

  • Konomor ( 6th century, legendary, but repeatedly mentioned in Gregory of Tours )
  • Rivallon ( Rivallo ) III. , Count of Poher, father of the Duke of Brittany Salomon
  • Rivallon IV, Count of Poher, son of the Duke Salomon
  • Judicael, Count of Poher, from 876 pretender to the title of duke († 888) (House Rennes)
  • Mahueldoc ( Matuedo ) I, Count of Poher, son of the Duke Alain I ( † 907 ) ( Cornwall House )
  • Alain Barbe Torte II, whose son, Count of Vannes, and Nantes Poher, Duke of Brittany († 952)
  • Bernard, Vicomte de Poher (11th century)
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