Melisende (Comte de Nantes)

~ Melisende, wife of Judicael, Comte de Nantes; Medieval Lands lists Judith among their two children but notes that the primary source confirming the marriage has not been found. Parentage unknown. TOP - nothing further 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|| Quaghebeur (2004, n. 17) suggests from the 25-year gap between the deaths of Budic (1038) and Judith (1063) that Judith may have been born of a second marriage of Judicael, and asks who his first wife was - so Melisende as Judith's mother stays ~. Source: Stephane Morin, Tregor, Goelo, Penthievre. Le pouvoir des comtes de Bretagne du XIe au XIIIe siecle (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010), Introduction, paras 8-10 (OpenEdition books.pur.128019), citing H. Guillotel, Les actes des ducs de Bretagne (944-1148), pp. xxxi-xxxii; and Joelle Quaghebeur, 'Judith de Nantes ... comtesse de Cornouaille', in Corona Monastica (PUR, 2004), pp. 279-287 and n. 8 (OpenEdition books.pur.20174); read 2 Nov 2026.