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> 1. Brittany and the Honor of Richmond. Henry was exiled at the court
> of the duchy of Brittany for fourteen years from 1471 (aged about 14)
> to 1485. He was Earl of Richmond, the title he had inherited from his
> father (though de jure it was forfeit to the Crown as a result of the
> Tudors™ defeat). The Honor (later the Earldom) of Richmond was in the
> hands of Dukes or Counts of Brittany or members of their families from
> the late eleventh to the mid-fourteenth century. Five of the Dukes of
> Brittany in the twelfth and thirteen centuries were also Earls of
> Richmond.
Dear Graham,
One of those early five "dukes" was Pierre Mauclerc, or Pierre of Dreux, whom
Philip Augustus married to Alix de Thouars, the heiress of the county of Bretagne, in
an attempt to absorb Bretagne into the French domain. The English crown used the
earldom of Richmond as a "carrot" to lure him to pay homage to England rather
than France (considered as treason in France). And the English records also
consistently style him as "duke" of Brittany, while in French eyes, he was only a
count (this changed at the end of the 13th century, when Bretagne was elevated to
a French peerage). The relation was, at the very least, politically fraught. No idea
how that was playing out in the 15th century though.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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