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Name: Cornouaille
Type: Polity
Start: 501 AD
End: 578 AD
Nation: cornouaille
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Cornouaille
This article is about the specific polity Cornouaille 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
Chronology
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1. End of Roman rule in Britannia and Armorica
The inhabitants of Britannia and Armorica expelled the Romans.
2. 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.
2.1.ChilpericĀ“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.