Guihomar I, Viscount of Léon

Guihomar I of Léon was one of the first Viscounts of Léon. He lived c. 1021 - 1055 and is said to be the son of a certain Alan of Léon or more probably a descendant of a legendary Count Even.

Life

He is cited in 1021[1] and in 1034 or 1040.[2] He is said to have owned estates in the Kemenet-Héboé[3] in the Bishopric of Cornouaille. This rise in power threatened Alain Canhiart, the Count of Cornouailles, who was victorious in 1055 and gave the hamlet of Lezugar en Beuzec to the episcopal authority. Guihomar I was still alive at the time.[4]

Issue

Guihomar is said to have had a son named Éhuarn but according to Joëlle Quaghebeur Ehuarn was actually a “Viscount from Cornouaille”, that is to say of a Viscount of Le Faou who married a woman belonging to the House of Léon.[5]

He was undoubtedly succeeded by his supposed grandson and namesake Guihomar II as Viscount of Léon.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Note of the restoration of rights in favour of the Abbey of Redon by the Bishop of Vannes
  2. ↑ Charter-note in favour of the Abbey of Marmoutier, cited in Généalogei des vicomtes de Léon
  3. ↑ It is described in a charter dated 1208 as an hereditary sénéchaussée of Hervé de Léon
  4. ↑ André Chédeville & Noël-Yves Tonnerre. La Bretagne féodale XIe-XIIIe siècles. Ouest-France, Université Rennes (1987) p. 164.
  5. ↑ Joëlle Quaghbeur La Cornouaille du IXe au XIIe siècle. PUR Rennes (2002) p. 144 & Chart 13 « Lignage vicomtal du Faou » p. 372-373
  6. ↑ André Chédeville & Noël-Yves Tonnerre, genealogical « Les vicomtes de Léon » p. 164.

Sources

  • Patrick Kernévez, André-Yves Bourgès Généalogie des vicomtes de Léon (XIe, XIIe et XIIIe siècles). Bulletin de la Société archéologique du Finistère, t. CXXXVI, 2007, p. 157-188.
  • André-Yves Bourgès, L’expansion territoriale des vicomtes de Léon à l’époque féodale, dans Bulletin de la Société archéologique du Finistère, tome CXXVI, 1997
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