Hoel Comte de Nantes

✓ Hoel, Comte de Nantes (killed [981]), son of Alain II 'Barbetorte', Duke of Brittany, by Judith (Chronicle of Nantes: 'Alani Barbaetortae filios ... Hoel et Guerech ... progeniti ex nobili matre ... Judith'); killed by the contrivance of Conan, son of Juhel Berengar, Count of Rennes (Annals of Redon); father by a concubine of Judicael. Mother of Judicael not named - not wired. Source: Medieval Lands (fmg.ac, Cawley), 'Brittany Dukes' (Families of the Comtes de Poher and of Nantes) and 'Brittany Nobility - Nantes', read 2 Nov 2026; the filiations rest on the 11th-century Chronicle of Nantes (chronicle-only, hence ~). [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 2 Nov 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.] ||2 Nov 2026 - EVIDENCE AUDIT|| PERSON attested: with his brother Guerech subscribes a charter of their father Alain for Landevennec (c. 945, Cartulaire de Landevennec); named with Juhel Berengar and Conan as chief men of the Bretons in a letter of Pope John XIII (c. 970, Jaffe 3756); buried at Redon (Annals of Redon). FILIATION (son of Alain Barbetorte by Judith): Chronicle of Nantes; Merlet calls them 'fils batards d'Alain Barbetorte et de Judith'; La Borderie and Medieval Lands agree. The Landevennec subscription supports but does not state the filiation. Grade stays ~ pending ruling. Sources checked 2 Nov 2026: R. Merlet (ed.), La Chronique de Nantes (1896), text and notes; A. de La Borderie, Histoire de Bretagne II (1906); P. Lauer (ed.), Les Annales de Flodoard (1905), notes; Medieval Lands 'Brittany Dukes'. Not reachable: J. M. H. Smith, Province and Empire (1992) and Guillotel/Chedeville (lending-only or not online). ||2 Nov 2026 - UPGRADED TO ✓|| Smith (1992) Figure 2 draws the 'Counts of Nantes' as Alan II's descendants; Hoel and Guerech subscribe their father Alain's Landevennec charter (c. 945); Merlet, La Borderie and Medieval Lands agree. Mother Judith stays ~. Source: Julia M. H. Smith, Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians (Cambridge, 1992), Figure 2 'The rulers of Carolingian Brittany' (p. xvii: ALAN I = Oreguen; daughter = Matuedoe; ALAN II (Twistedbeard); 'Counts of Nantes'), p. 139 ('his grandson Alan II on reconquering Brittany ... in 936-7'), pp. 196-7 (Matuedoe, count of Poher, fled to Athelstan's court; Athelstan godfather to 'Matuedoe's infant son Alan II'); read 2 Nov 2026 from Aynsley's copy. Smith calls the Chronicle of Nantes 'a late compilation ... generally extremely unreliable' (p. 94 n. 27), yet gives this descent in her own voice.