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Name: Bro Waroc'h

Type: Polity

Start: 491 AD

End: 578 AD

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This article is about the specific polity Bro Waroc'h and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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A historic Celtic polity in Brittany. In 578 the polities of Brittany were made vassals of the Frankish Kingdom. As such, it was a vassal of a series of different Teilreiche (polities emerging from the hereditary divisions of the Frankish Kingdom that repeatedly divided and reunited).

Establishment


  • January 491: Bro-Gwened was an early medieval principality or kingdom around Vannes in Armorica (Brittany), lasting from around AD 490.
  • Chronology


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    1. End of Roman rule in Britannia and Armorica


    The inhabitants of Britannia and Armorica expelled the Romans.


    2. Franco-Visigothic Wars


    Were a series of wars between the Franks and the Visigoths during the reign of Frankish King Clovis I.

    2.1.First Franco-Visigothic war (492-496)

    Was the first war of Frankish King Clovis against the Kingdom of the Visigoths.

  • January 497: In 496, Nantes was taken by the Armonici.

  • 3. Frankish Partitions


    The Frankish Kingdom was partitioned and reuinited several times as the Frankish rulers used to divide their territories equally among their heirs. This lead also to a number of wars and revolts.

    3.1.Chilperic´s Submission of the Bretons

    In 578, Frankish subking Chilperic sent an army to fight the Breton ruler Waroch II of the Bro-Wened along the Vilaine.

  • January 579: In 578, Frankish sub-king Chilperic sent an army to fight the Breton ruler Waroch II of the Bro-Wened along the Vilaine. The armies fought for three days before Waroch submitted, and agreed to pay an annual tribute.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 579: In 578, Frankish sub-king Chilperic sent an army to fight the Breton ruler Waroch II of the Bro-Wened along the Vilaine. The armies fought for three days before Waroch submitted, and agreed to pay an annual tribute.
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