1. Nominoe is the Breton pater patriae and to Breton nationalists he is known as.
19 Facts About Nominoe
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Nominoe was the second son of Count Erispoe or Erispoe of Poher, King of the Browaroch, and younger brother of Count Riwallon or Rivallon III of Poher.
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Morman, king of the Bretons, died and Numenoi [Nominoe] was created duke of that same people by the emperor at Ingelheim.
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Nominoe was a staunch ally of Louis the Pious until the emperor's death in 840.
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Nominoe supported Louis in the several civil wars of the 830s and he supported the monastery of Redon Abbey, even ordering the monks to pray for Louis in light of the emperor's "strife".
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Nominoe did have the political authority to exact payment in the form of land from a man who had murdered his follower Catworet.
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Nominoe never held a title from the emperor, who refers to him in charters as merely, "faithful one", or as missus imperatoris, "imperial emissary", which was probably the title he was granted at Ingelheim.
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Nominoe was thereafter a constant enemy of Charles and his authority in Neustria, often acting in concert with Lothair, Lambert, and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
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Lambert and Pepin complied, but Nominoe ignored the Frankish bishops.
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In 844 and 847 according to the Annales Bertiniani, Nominoe made war on the Vikings.
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Nominoe, probably being paid by Lothair, did not in fact desist; neither did Pepin.
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In two campaigns in the spring and then fall of 849, Charles was in Aquitaine and Nominoe took the opportunity to raid Neustria.
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Immediately after he left, Lambert and Nominoe defeated the garrisons and captured the new Count of Nantes, Amalric.
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Nominoe was thus the founder of a political tradition in Brittany which had not thitherto existed; though his charters did not mimic Carolingian ones, his successors would imitate the legitimising Carolingian language in theirs.
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In 849 at a place called Coitlouh, Nominoe held a synod whereat he deposed the five Breton bishops of Alet, Saint-Pol, Vannes, Quimper, and Dol.
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The later popes Benedict II and Nicholas I believed that Nominoe had forced the bishops to admit to crimes they had not committed and that their depositions were thus invalid.
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Nominoe sacked Rennes and Nantes, replacing the new Frankish bishop of the latter with his own nominee.
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The bishop of Nantes whom Nominoe succeeded in removing for about a year was Actard.
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At his death Nominoe was succeeded by his son Erispoe.